German forces defending against Soviet attacks on the Eastern Front in WW2. German officers in the field confer over maps. German infantry walking through mist in a forest. German halftrack Camouflaged with foliage, pulling camouflaged artillery field piece. A halftrack pulling an 88mm Flak gun. Closeup of German soldier smoking a cigarette. German Stug IVs moving through forest. Infantry walking along a dirt road interspersed with Stug IV tank destroyers camouflaged with foliage.German soldiers carrying MG 42 machine guns. German tank camouflaged in branches and foliage. Tank destroyers and infantry armed with panzerfaust, to combat Soviet armor. A Soviet tank hit and smoking across a field, and two more burning on a dirt road. An MG34 machine gun. German infantry hunkered down in woods. A lone Soviet tank speeding along a dirt road, as a German soldier, armed with panzerfaust, watches while lying in grass. Explosion as tank is ostensibly hit by panzerfaust. Shell striking Soviet tank. Closeups of several knocked out Soviet tanks. German soldiers examine wrecked Soviet T-34 tank and SU-100 tank destroyer. German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-87 dive bomber aircraft flying low overhead and then bombing a building near Warsaw. Close up views of Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers in flight during dives. Spectacular explosion following a strike by Stuka.
Opening scene shows some Allied gliders being towed over Holland during the joint American and British airborne Operation Market Garden. View from the air of wide areas flooded by the Germans to thwart Allied forces. Formations of American C-47 aircraft dropping paratroopers. Sky filled with paratroop chutes descending near Arnheim. Fairly closeup views of some troopers suspended under their parachutes. View from ground of troopers landing and running forward with weapons at the ready. Paratroopers landing near a haystack.Some make rough landings. Forward view from an American Waco CG-4A glider of the C-47 ahead, towing it. View from A C-47 of towed Waco glider behind it. View from the ground of gliders landing. One flips over, upside down. Troopers seen leaving a Waco glider and assembling on the ground. One glider noses over but falls back again. A tow plane is shot down and crashes in a huge explosion. Closeup of the burning wreckage. Different view of the crash site near some houses, with heavy plumes of dark smoke rising. Paratroopers advancing across a field. Local civilians gathered around an empty glider, examining it. Two paratroopers with a map asking two Dutch women for directions. The women each point in different directions. Paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division assembling. The Screaming Eagle logos visible on their shoulders.
Civilians break the Nazi emblem at the Nazi headquarters in Cologne, Germany. They climb on ladders and reach the top of its entrance. Civilians scaffold to reach the Nazi emblem at the headquarter building. People loosen the emblem with hammer and bring it down on ground.
German General Hermann Foertsch, Commander of German 1st Army, and members of his surrender delegation, examine and markup maps delineating the areas and forces that they will be surrendering to the Allies. The allied contingent, prepared to receive the German surrender details, are seated at a conference table in the Thorak estate, Haar, Germany. Leading the Allied representatives is U.S. General Jacob Loucks Devers. Other American generals seen include, Lt General Alexander M. Patch, and Lieutenant General Wade Haislip.
Film opens showing armorers riding atop bombs being towed by an M6 Bomb Service Truck, at Denain-Prouvy Airdrome, France (A-83) in March, 1945. The truck drives slowly along the field, past parked Martin B-26 Marauder medium bombers of the 323rd Bombardment Group. One of the airmen plays a harmonica as he rides along. After a while the truck turns to a parked B-26, tail number 41-34942, where the armorers climb down and begin loading bombs on the aircraft.
U.S. Army Air Force pilot Lt. Bruce Carr, of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, dons his parachute and climbs into the cockpit of his P-51D Mustang airplane. Crew chief, Earl Osborne, assists him. The name 'Angels Playmate"and 23 swastikas are painted on fuselage of the airplane. Lt Carr taxis away toward the runway. Another pilot climbs aboard his P-51D and settles himself in the cockpit.
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