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V-1 rockets damage the city of Antwerp; United States troops fight the advancing German army during the Battle of the Bulge (WW2)

United States soldiers defend the city of Antwerp during World War II. A United States anti aircraft gunner soldier stacks shells in crates together. A group of artillery gunners huddle around a small bonfire during winter. A soldier rubs his hands from the cold. Cold feet shaking off dirt from muddy ground. View of damaged Antwerp, Belgium. Smoke rises out of a building hit by a V-1 rocket. A storefront on fire. Civilians watch the damage caused by V-1 and V-2 rockets in Antwerp. A Belgian woman crying. Two children peer from a window. Three boys inspect a rocket fragment from a blast site. A woman fixes a girl’s hair after a blast. An anti-aircraft gun tilted towards the sky. Man pulls out shells. German soldiers advance. Commander of the German 5th Panzer Army, General Hasso von Manteuffel, conversing with officer of the 116th Panzer Division. Other German officers confer as well. German motorized infantry mobilizes to Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. German soldiers sit on top of a moving Panzer IV tank covered with camouflage. German infantry troops walk alongside burning American vehicles. German and United States soldiers firing rifles from behind small hill. Artillery crew load more shells into howitzer. Anti-aircraft guns firing into enemy positions. Belgian civilians work to repair damaged infrastructure in Antwerp Port after German defeat. Bags of flour are unloaded at Antwerp Port. Dock workers working in Antwerp Port. United States Army trucks transport materiel from Antwerp Port to the Western Front. Military Police personnel direct traffic on a street.

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080042
U.S. troops of the 79th Infantry Division engage German forces in the Alsace Front during World War II

Opening shows animated map of Alsace front at junction of Belgium, Germany, and France, in World War 2. Allied forces are schematically shown sweeping toward Wissembourg, Haguenau, and Strasbourg. Next, several U.S. Army M4A3(75) medium tanks are seen driving toward the camera on a rural road, during a pull back by the 7th Army in the first week of January, 1944, from advanced positions at the front. Some are filled with infantry riding atop them. The last of them is seen crossing a bridge 13 miles Northeast of Haguenau. The engineers of the 79th Division place demolition charges to destroy the bridge. Closeup of them placing and then remotely igniting the charge. A huge explosion ensues that completely destroys the bridge. Scene shifts to several U.S. soldiers of an engineer combat battalion preparing 100 pound of TNT in a captured blockhouse at Lauterbach, Alsace. Closeup of engineer carrying the explosives into the blockhouse and preparing the remote detonation device. The engineers string wire in the snow and setup their remote detonation device. One depresses a plunger to ignite the charge and blow up the blockhouse, which explodes in a huge cloud of black smoke. Next, elements of the 79th Infantry Division supported by tanks, are seen moving forward to counter German gains Southeast of Haguenau. (On January 5th the German forces had established a bridgehead across the Rhein (Rhine) river near Gansheim, Germany.) Scene shifts to Drusenheim, Germany where U.S. forces are engaging a Battalion of occupying German forces. Machine gun fire is heard constantly, as American infantry battle the hidden German defenders and tanks drive them from defensive positions near a bridge at the far end of town. Infantry move from behind tanks toward the bridge and are seen crossing it. An M4A3(75) medium tank risks crossing the narrow bridge and is immediately followed by many 79th Infantry troops. The battle continues on the other side of the bridge.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057869
Allied forces in Britain airlift paratroopers and weapons from England to border of Holland, during World War II.

United States Army and British forces conduct airlift operations in Europe during World War II. They airlift paratroopers from England to Arnhem Netherlands. Large number of Allied transport planes at a British airfield in England loaded with weapons, artillery and equipment. The planes and gliders take off one after the other. Fighter aircraft accompany transport planes guarding them from Luftwaffe. View from ground in town in Belgium as a mass of many Allied aircraft fly over towns of Belgium towards Holland's border. Large number of paratroopers of the Anglo-American Army jump from the airplanes. Sky is filled with paratroopers descending. Paratroopers quickly arrange themselves and start their operation. Soldiers fire mortars and rifles at the enemy.

Date: 1944, October 16
Duration: 5 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056352
United States troops with ambulances, trucks and tanks retreats from Wirtzfeld to Elsenborn, Belgium

United States 2nd Infantry Division retreats from Wirtzfeld to Elsenborn, Belgium. Ambulances move on road. Snow covered field in the background. Troops of 2nd Division pack and load luggage on 2 ½ ton trucks and leave the town. M 10 motor carriage move towards front near Soldiers sit on trucks and jeeps. Artillery moves in town. Soldiers walk on road. Three soldiers walk on road. Snow in the background. Medics and Headquarter troops move to rear along road through snow covered fields. Soldiers of 1st Infantry Division rest besides road. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, December 17
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026195
United States soldier and medic skates with children on a frozen pond in Belgium.

United States soldiers skate with children on a frozen pond in Belgium. Men and women at the pond. Soldier skates and falls and a man help him. Soldier skates with children, they hold him skate. United States soldier tries to skate alone. He falls. He tries again and succeeds. Children accompany him. People and children watch them. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, December 27
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026209
Civilians in bread line leave store with loaves of bread in Malmedy sector, Belgium.

Civilians in bread line in Malmedy sector, Belgium. Civilians outside the bread store. Civilians in bread line leave store with loaves of bread.

Date: 1944, December 22
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044500