Animated map shows direction of Allied forces converging on Germany, Western Powers from the West, and Soviets from the East during final phase of World War 2, in Europe. Newspaper headline reads: "Russians strike for Berlin."The New York World-Telegram newspaper headline reads: "Yanks Cross the Rhine!."U.S. Army troops seen in house-to-house fighting in Germany.American troops standing at Rhine River viewing Cologne, Germany. The cathedral at Cologne. Film of Hitler's troops crossing the Rhine in 1936 contrasted with views of many German prisoners of war being marched under Allied guard, in 1945. USAAF P-38 lightning aircraft taking off on mission against German targets. View from Allied aircraft strafing German target which explodes. A P-38 landing on a snowy airfield. USAAF P-47 of the 388th Fighter Squadron (C4), 365th Fighter Group, landing and skidding sideways off the runway. It slides in the snow and strikes another P-47 aircraft with engine running, on the ramp. B-24 Liberator bombers taxing for takeoff. Formation of USAAF B-17 bombers dropping bombs all over Germany. Formation of B-17s at very high altitude, leaving contrails behind them. U.S. infantry and armor fighting in snow-covered streets of German city. Allied troops, including Polish soldiers, fighting in the snow. Allied wounded being carried while under fire from German forces. U.S. Sergeant Peter Di Guiseppi and Private Pat Brady being interviewed. De Guiseppi remarks that the war seems like it will never end. Brady recounts being in a tank that hit a mine or something that exploded and abandoning the tank faster than he could ever imagine. He hunkered down in a ditch while bullets flew all around him, including the ammunition from the destroyed tank.
View of U.S. Army Field Hospital set up in Normandy, France, following the Allied invasion in World War 2. U.S. DUKW (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) passes along a road. American wounded being carried on stretchers to hospital tent. Intravenous treatment being administered to a wounded soldier; man standing holds IV bag. American Army nurses and corpsman preparing bandages inside a field hospital tent. Nurses seated near a tent. One drinks coffee from her metal mess cup. Nurses comforting and assisted wounded soldiers. Two German prisoners of war (POWs) pose for camera. It is unusual that two of the German soldiers appear to be of East Asian descent. (It has been reported that there was a Korean man named Yang Kyoungjong who was three times captured and conscripted into the Japanese army, then the Soviet Army, and then the German Wehrmacht during World War 2. He was captured by the U.S. Army during the invasion of Normandy. The identify of the two German soldiers of Asian descent seen in this footage is unknown.) German POWs carrying a wounded comrade toward a treatment tent. A German POW Army doctor and his assistant treating a soldier for shrapnel wounds. The doctor waves toward German POWs to bring their wounded, on a litter, to him. POWs carrying wounded on a litter. Paratrooper of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, with bandages across his face, carries a wounded buddy to treatment area. Closeup of the trooper smiling in spite of his bandaged face. Ambulatory wounded U.S. soldier being registered by Army nurse. Corpsman of 101st Airborne, on stretcher on the ground.
Training and education of African American soldiers and officers in World War 2. African American soldiers of the U.S. Army attend a graduation ceremony at West Point, New York during World War II. African American soldiers receive commission at U.S. OCS (Officer Training School). They parade on a field. One African American cadet among West Point cadets stands at attention. West Point Auditorium at graduation ceremony. An African American cadet receives his diploma from the U.S. Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. African American Flying cadets lined up at an aircraft. A Flight Officer pins wings on an African American cadet. African American cadets lined up at graduation ceremony.
An old French woman pushes a hand cart along a road beside Annecy airfield, France. during World War 2. German prisoners of war work removing stone from the airfield. American flyers, who escaped from internment in Switzerland, ride on a truck carrying them along the road behind the woman with her cart. They are dressed in civilian clothes. The German POWs look up as the truck drives past. One of the German prisoners is painting a signal device. The truck of American aviators pulls up to a C-47 transport airplane. They climb down. One of them wearing a German army cap, laughingly gives a Nazi salute, to the amusement of his companions. The Americans watch as a groups of German POWs march past. An officer speaks to the Americans. Meanwhile, German prisoners of war continue to walk past in the foreground, guarded by armed French soldiers. The repatriated flyers are briefed by pilots.
Lines of Japanese people for ration supplies in Tokyo, Japan immediately after World War II. Japanese housewives, students, business men, children and workers wait in lines for rationed material during time of poverty after war defeat. Rubble from war bombing in the foreground. Little children stand alongside their fathers and mothers. A group of Japanese women stands. Close-up views of faces of dejected and exhausted Japanese citizens.
Aerial views of U.S. fleet in Sagami Bay, Japan towards the end of World War II. An aerial view shows letters 'PW' painted on the roof of a building at a prison-of-war camp located near Tokohoma seaplane base. An aerial view of Yokohama including the prison-of-war camp located close to a railway junction. U.S. fleet underway includes BBs (battleships) and escorting DDs (destroyers) as they enter Sagami Bay.
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