Russian officers in Berlin after its capture during World War II. Soviet flags flying on various monuments and buildings in Berlin. Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov and other officials inspect the ruins in the captured German city. The damaged interior of the new Reich Chancellery building with a bust of Hitler in debris. Ruined German armored cars on the streets. Marshal Zhukov looks at Victory Lady atop Victory Column in Berlin at the end of World War 2 in Europe.
Russian troops after capturing Berlin during World War II. Soviet troops and officers pose for photographs on the streets of war torn Berlin. Demolished buildings in the background. Walls are marked by Russians, mentioning their city of origin.
Scenes of trench warfare in World War I, when airpower was limited. In contrast, postwar low level aerial views show total destruction in Germany cities from aircraft bombing, alone, during World War 2. A montage of various U.S. warplanes in flight on bombing run and bombs away views with bombs falling toward targets. Planes shown include P-38, B-17, and B-26. A formation of P-38s. A formation of B-26s. A B-26 in D-Day stripes. Bombs striking ground targets. B-17s in high altitude formations with contrails.
U.S. Army Air Force bombers attack Germany during World War II. View of U.S. P-51 Mustang aircraft in flight line at U.S. Air Base in England, United Kingdom. Aerial views of a formation of B-17 Flying Fortress planes and P-51 aircraft in flight over Germany. Bombs fall on German aircraft plants. Ruins of German aircraft plants after facing the bombings. Scene changes to show German war production workers building new Focke-Wulf aircraft (e.g., Fw 190) at production factory in Germany.
United States bombers bomb German-held oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania during World War II (Operation Tidal Wave). Allied military leaders including United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower confer prior to the Normandy Invasion. Cartoon depiction of buildings, tanks, and equipment in Romanian oil refineries. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers raid Romania's Ploesti oil refineries. A group of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs over Ploesti. Explosions throwing billows of smoke up in air. Aerial view of Ploesti being bombarded by bombing and clouds of smoke from explosion. A map of Germany shows synthetic oil plant positions through Central Germany. Bombers drop bombs over synthetic oil plants in Germany. Firefighters rush to put out fire in oil plant during a bombing attack. Firefighters spraying water on burning oil tanks. Thick, dark clouds of smoke cover the burning oil plant. A German synthetic oil plant reduced to rubble. German workers clear the rubble from bombed plants. Ruins of German oil plants after repeated air raid attacks. “The enemy has succeeded in increasing our losses of aviation gasoline up to ninety percent” a voiceover narrates the words of Nazi German Reichsminister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer. German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt speaks to an audience.
U.S. troops and a U.S. Navy Admiral on a Normandy beachhead. U.S. troops, heavily laden with gear, including life preservers, seen on Normandy invasion beachhead several days after D-Day, during World War 2. A large number of German prisoners of war walk past the camera, under guard. View from further back of the prisoners walking along the beachhead. Barrage balloons aloft in background. A U.S. Lieutenant in foreground and several soldiers and a jeep nearby. A DUKW amphibious vehicle drives past the marching prisoners. U.S. soldiers remove their flotation gear and stack them into a pile on the beach. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Don Pardee Moon seated in a jeep. LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry) in the background. Admiral Moon talks with several U.S. officers. He then climbs aboard a Dodge WC 52 vehicle, in which others are already seated on benches in the back.
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