Aviator Charles Lindbergh in Brussels, Belgium. Officials and officers accompany Lindbergh as he arrives at the Tomb of an Unknown Soldier at the foot of the Congress Column (Pl. du Congrès, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium). Lindbergh lays a wreath at the tomb. Officers salute.
Captain Charles A. Lindbergh in Antwerp, Belgium after his trans-Atlantic flight. View of the Spirit of St. Louis. The plane takes off. Lindbergh at an airport in Belgium. People gather at the airport. The plane lands and bystanders watch. Lindbergh is greeted. People gather at a palace. The plane lands in London Croydon Airport (Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon, CR0 0XZ). People gather upon the arrival of the Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh poses with United States Ambassador to Great Britain Alanson B. Houghton. Lindbergh addresses the people.
American pavilion being constructed in Brussels, Belgium for World's fair. Workers work on a huge steel structure as they construct American pavilion at Brussels world 's fair site in Belgium. Smoke rises. Men work on wooden planks. A bucket filled with concrete in a hoist. A worker levels the surface of cement. Steel girders at the construction site. Drink being poured into a glass. Officials speak to the workers. Officials and workers raise a toast and drink from the glasses. James Plaut, the Deputy U.S. Commissioner to the Brussel's World's Fair and other Officials at the construction site as they inspect the pavilion under construction. Pipes piled up at the site.
Animated map showing disposition of Allied and opposing German forces in Belgium during World War II. Highlighted places include the River Meuse, Bastogne, and Liege. Brief glimpse of German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, commander of the German Army Command in the West. German troops riding through forest over light snow on a King Tiger II tank. The tank churning up dirt and snow at high speed in another scene. German infantry moving through the forest at dusk. Illustrated map shows national flags delineating battle fronts and the German breakout (Bulge in the line) aiming toward Antwerp Harbor through Liege. Next are series of rapidly changing battle scenes showing American troops in house-to-house combat near houses and stores of towns, moving through smoke and mist, one throwing a hand grenade into an apartment building, helping one another move through buildings, setting off explosives, communicating on a field telephone, moving through burning rubble, and running across snow around industrial buildings. Dramatic camera shakes are seen during some of the nearby explosions. Two U.S. soldiers silhouetted against the snow as place a wounded buddy in a sheltered spot. One places a bandage around the neck of the injured soldier. American medics carrying wounded on litters, across a snowy field containing a several fallen soldiers. One soldier calls for a medic. Corpsmen moving on to a new battlefield. U.S. troops firing machine guns from atop Sherman tanks in a city as infantrymen crouch behind the tanks. Glimpse from inside, of a German soldier firing an Mg34 model machine gun out a building window. Embattled American troops and trucks moving past burning buildings. Closeups of American GIs dashing from building to building and firing from improvised shelter. A bazooka fired out a building window strikes a tank, which is seen burning. Individual soldiers running for shelter as Medical Corpsmen carry the wounded on litter the opposite way. Scene shifts to British forces moving in from further North, through the snow. Glimpse of women and children and aged folks, in Belgium, frightened by the goings on. An old woman holds a small girl who is crying. British infantry advancing into action across a snowy field. A British machine gunner firing from a protected position. U.S. troops entrenched in deep snow. December 24th, clearing weather allowed some Allied air support to aid the troops. Glimpse of aircraft contrails. Formations of Allied aircraft overhead. Aerial view of a formation of British Hawker Typhoon fighter bombers in flight. View from a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight with others creating thick contrails at high altitude. Pilot and copilot in cockpit of a bomber in flight. American soldiers on the ground watching with binoculars. U.S. Army Air Forces Republic P-47 Thunderbolt overhead, break out of formation and dive to attack German ground targets. American GIs on the ground cheer as they watch. A huge explosion takes place near an American crew manning a heavy gun pointing point blank with zero elevation. American soldiers load rockets into a truck-mounted launcher. Several truck-mounted launchers firing their rocket barrages. U.S. infantry advancing atop tanks, in armored personnel carriers, and on foot. They carry axes, shovels, and similar tools along with their weapons. Army trucks entering a town. The infantry moving through a forest. More troops on vehicles of all kinds moving into a town.
German Army engineers constructing road over countryside during World War II. They upturn a rock. Soldiers carry bars of steel and supplies to build road. Soldiers moves in the Ardennes toward occupation of Belgium. Trucks passing over road, countryside in the background. Truck towing anti-tank gun and artillery through countryside. German troops moving over road, some on horseback, and cutting through forest. A Panzer division clearing trees from forest as a Panzer tank moves. Civilians waving to German troops marching into street in Malmedy, Belgium. Belgian civilians greet German soldiers with Nazi salute. An elderly woman and a man wave from their window. German troops marching down street, being welcomed by civilians. A Belgian woman distributes food to soldiers. German troops dipping water from bucket.
Dead bodies of soldiers killed by Nazi forces are exhumed from a mass grave and placed into caskets in Belgium. All the dead bodies have their hands tied at the back. German officer prisoner watches as men take the bodies out. (World War II period).
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