War damage in Sicily, Italy after bombings done by USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes during World War II. A damaged monument in a Sicilian town. Rubble on the streets. Italian men pose along a street. Bombed out buildings. Italian laborers clear debris along a street. A man clears a street with a shovel near a horse-drawn carriage.
War damage in Sicily, Italy after bombings done by USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes during World War II. The American flags at a harbor after the capture of Sicily. Bombed out buildings. Bulldozers clear a street. Smoke comes out of a barrel pulled behind a vehicle along a street. Wrecked Italian equipment. Wrecked harbor facilities and ships.
War damage in Sicily, Italy after bombings of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. U.S. soldiers inspect a wrecked German airplane on a captured Italian airfield. A soldier shows the picture of a German pilot. The soldiers examine the wreckage of a German airplane. A damaged hangar shows wreckage of airplanes. A picture of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
German troops fight the Allied forces in the Netherlands during World War 2. Animated map locates Arnhem and Nijmegen in the Netherlands. German troops fire at British parachutists and gliders as they descend from their transport aircraft. Afterwards they pursue and engage those who made it safely to the ground. Scattered Allied equipment, dead bodies and downed gliders. Burning gliders. Allied aircraft shot down and crashing. British prisoners of war seated in a group in a meadow.
Allied soldiers taken prisoners in the Netherlands during World War II. Camera pans across German soldiers moving single-file along a stretch of woods. Destroyed allied equipment and supplies in a glade. German soldiers rummage through abandoned things and pick up a tin of cigarettes, which they share. They smile as they smoke them. German infantry with small arms and panzerfaust anti-tank weapons make their way along a tree line. German bicycle troops moving along a divided highway. German infantry rushing toward a group of houses, and engaging Allied troops in suburban area firefights. Lots of gunfire and smoke. Allied soldiers being taken prisoner. A paratrooper's chute on the roof of a dwelling. Allied prisoners of war being escorted and held under guard, in a ditch next to a rail line. Parachutes that got entangled along the rail line. Many scenes of Allied prisoners being marched under guard.
American soldiers interviewing prisoners at the U.S. 11th Armored Division Prisoner of War enclosure in Freyung, Germany near the end of World War 2. An American Army Sergeant questions a young man with help of another Sergeant, interpreter, who speaks to him in German. The boy identifies himself as being Hungarian from the Royal Hungarian High School. The boy tells them he learned marching drill, but had no weapons training. He had been enrolled four years, and had never been engaged in combat with Americans. He states his age as 14 years. Scene shifts to another interview with a younger boy soldier. The interpreter asks if he speaks German. The boy says no, he is Hungarian. Nevertheless, with some difficulty, they determine that he too is from the Hungarian military school. When asked about his military training, the boy answers by demonstrating, standing at attention, saluting, and simple close order drill actions. They determine that he is in the third year of school. The film director calls for a cut at this point. They resume asking if he ever fought against Americans. He has difficulty understanding but eventually says no. The boy is 12 years old.
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