United States bombers bomb German-held oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania during World War II (Operation Tidal Wave). Allied military leaders including United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower confer prior to the Normandy Invasion. Cartoon depiction of buildings, tanks, and equipment in Romanian oil refineries. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers raid Romania's Ploesti oil refineries. A group of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs over Ploesti. Explosions throwing billows of smoke up in air. Aerial view of Ploesti being bombarded by bombing and clouds of smoke from explosion. A map of Germany shows synthetic oil plant positions through Central Germany. Bombers drop bombs over synthetic oil plants in Germany. Firefighters rush to put out fire in oil plant during a bombing attack. Firefighters spraying water on burning oil tanks. Thick, dark clouds of smoke cover the burning oil plant. A German synthetic oil plant reduced to rubble. German workers clear the rubble from bombed plants. Ruins of German oil plants after repeated air raid attacks. “The enemy has succeeded in increasing our losses of aviation gasoline up to ninety percent” a voiceover narrates the words of Nazi German Reichsminister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer. German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt speaks to an audience.
European war brides of American soldiers, board a U.S. Army Transport Ship at a European port, for journey to America. An officer checks names on a list as women, some with babies, board via a gangway. The passengers wave from the lower deck of the ship. A crowd on the dockside looking up.
Group of German tourists visit an island with glaciers. Glaciers as seen from the deck of a ship. A white ship sails on clear blue sea. Shoreline with snowcapped mountains. Many glaciers at sea. Ship underway. Group of people with a German Shepherd dog on the shore. Glaciers in surrounding area. View from deck of a ship.
German destroyers belonging to the Second Flotilla, seen from a passing liner. A close view of the German Destroyer Theodor Riedel (Z6) with B2 painted on its hull. (Note: This ship survived WWII and served under the French navy as the Klebar until scrapped in 1958.) Views of other ships from the passenger liner, including a three-masted sailing vessel.
Eva Braun home movie of "The running mountain." Snow capped mountains in Bavaria. Eva Braun and others relax outside in snow covered area. Snow covered slopes and mountains.
Aerial views of the city of Menton in France. Houses in the city with mountains in the background. Shoreline of Monaco, Monte Carlo. A French soldier looks at the view from above the shore. (World War II period).