Reenactment of handling and treatment for U.S. Army World War 2 soldiers suffering combat exhaustion. A soldier gives answers to a psychiatric officer. The psychiatric officer tries to detect signs of combat exhaustion (modern equivalent Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD) like lack of physical coordination, slowing mental processes, excessive reaction off noise and inability to rest. Soldiers adjust position of artillery. The soldiers are directed to take proper meals and get sound sleep to prevent combat exhaustion and fight stress.
U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight for bombing Hamburg in Germany during World War II. B-17 Flying Fortresses in formation flight over thick clouds. A B-17 in flight over thick clouds.
U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb Heligoland island in Germany during World War II. B-17s in flight. Several aerial views of the island and another island next to it. Smoke rises from burning oil storage tanks on Heligoland island. A runway on the island in the background. Heavy flak. German coastline: Heligoland and Friesian islands. Bomb craters and smoke from burning oil storage tanks. Bombs are dropped from Allied aircraft. The aircraft are in formation over clouds.
U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb Hamburg, Germany during World War II. View of Heligoland island and its coastline. The B-17s in flight. Aerial views of target island. On Hamburg: Thick smoke rises from burning oil storage tanks and a refinery on fire. Coastal installations on islands. Smoke and fire from a coastal oil depot.
Trade unions in a building in Hamburg, Germany. At an outdoor ceremony Colonel Armetage, British Military Government, restores free trade unions and union buildings for the people of Hamburg. Paul Bebert, formerly a prisoner in a World War 2 Nazi concentration camp, speaks to a crowd and then mounts a scaffold and with a hammer and a chisel destroys a swastika on the facade of a building.
The first American newspaper in Aachen, Germany is printed during World War II. Crowds in the streets of Allied-occupied Aachen. A U.S. General speaks as the first American newspaper to be printed in Germany is dedicated. Presses roll and the first copies are produced which are then purchased and read by German civilians.
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