V-E Day and Victory celebrations in Europe at the end of World War II in Europe. Civilians celebrate on the streets in Brussels, Belgium. Victory celebrations in Paris, France show a church bell ringing. French, American and British flags are raised. Cheering French crowd on the streets in Paris. French General Charles de Gaulle visits the Arch de Triomphe and pays homage at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery receives German surrender at Lundberg.
Evening and night views exterior in Great Plains of United States. View of reconstructed Native American plains Indian village. Several teepees. View inside a teepee of typical Native American garments, tools, and decorations. A fire burning in a fire ring in the tipi. Exterior view of tipi. Day time moving view of wild horses running free on the Great Plains. Horses of many colors and sizes running on the Plains. Point of view from camera approaching a herd of buffalo or bison grazing on the plains. Buffalo running on the plains.
Residents of an area of forest fire in California in 1987. A rancher speaks of being "wiped out." He says he has his horses because he moved them the day before the fire. Everything else, he says is burnt to the ground. Another rancher says he doesn't know how his place is still standing. Views of aftermath of the fire showing total destruction of a home. Man and woman sitting by the wreckage in dispair.
Views of community activities to assist persons fleeing from a forest fire in California, in 1987. A pickup truck parked on a road, loaded with personal belongings, including a stuffed deer head. A radio shown as an announcer speaks of the need at the Fair Grounds, for items related to animal care, such as dog food, etc. A food establishment worker speaks of taking care of 500 people a day with hamburgers, and other simple foods. View inside a building of people going through a food line staffed by volunteers. Large number of people displaced by wild fire are seated at tables eating.
Military athletes (in civilian clothes) sightseeing at Linderhof Palace, during their time in Germany for the International Military Games of the Conceil International Du Sports Militaire. They are assembled outside the Palace, on warm sunny day .A sign on the palace reads "English tours." View from a distance in the grounds shows beautiful woods and tall hedges of a formal garden surrounding a pond containing a gilded neptune fountain. Closeup of the fountain (not spraying). Statue of Venus and Cupid on a parapet. . View of the military athletes starting to move into the Palace, on the English-speaking tour. Other visitors strolling past a Neptune fountain with three horses in a semi-grotto on the grounds. Closeup of the fountain, with water flowing. The Golden Angel fountain in Western part of the Linderhof park.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. Wrecked buildings and rubble along the street sides. Tanks advance through the debris filled streets. Two soldiers atop pile of debris poised with rifles at the ready. Soldier in prone position atop pile of debris fires a machine gun. View of a German Mark V Panzer (Panther) tank in Komödienstrasse near the Cologne Cathedral. This is shortly after it had knocked out at least one U.S. M4 Sherman tank in Cologne that day. The Panzer is one of three German tanks remaining in the city. Combat camera footage from Cameraman Jim Bates shows the attack on the Panther tank as seen from Bates' position in the Deutsche Arbeitsfront building. The Panther is hit by fire from gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer in an M-26 series Pershing tank (a T26E3) with a 90mm gun, which had just rolled into position at the crossing of An den Dominikanern and Marzellenstraße. (The Pershing tank is not seen in this footage. It is at street level in front of the building, with the cameraman above). German soldiers jump from the Panther tank. The German Panther Tank receives additional fire from the Pershing and is consumed in flames. Smoke rising from the tank. Camera pans to view of the Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) and then back to the burning Panther tank.
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