Last days of air war in Germany near end of World War 2. U.S. Airmen holding film slate, on dirt airfield, with P-47 parked behind. Slate identifies location as A-82 (Verdun Airfield, France). Gun camera footage from P-47 flown by pilot named Hunter, of the 9th Air Force, 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 377th Fighter Squadron. Footage shows strafing of German targets along lines of communication.
German invasion and occupation of Poland at the start of World War 2. Horse drawn covered wagons driven by German soldiers advance on roads in Poland. Captive Polish soldiers POW (Prisoners of War) under German guard march in front of Polish citizens on streets in a city in Poland. Prisoners drink soup standing in line and rest on field. German soldiers give food to Polish children and their mother. Polish women and children stand in line to get food in a town square while a band plays music. Polish elderly women, elderly men, and children receive soup on various bowls and pitchers in soup line. They drink soup seated at long tables. German soldiers march into city of Chorzow (German name Konigshutte), bordering Germany, as Polish residents there cheer their arrival enthusiastically and raise their hands in Nazi salute. (Many residents there identified as "Volksdeutsch" with German heritage. Clip ends with brief scene of military honors funeral, showing German troops in Saarbrücken burying two French pilots, Lieutenant Jean Sueur and Captain Jacques Rosignol of 2 Escadrille de Reconnaissance 551, who were shot down September 11, 1939.
United States Marine Corps of the 3rd Marine Division in Iwo Jima Island during the Iwo Jima operation of World War 2. View from dug-in position, of several U.S. Marine Corps Sherman tanks on the sands of Iwo Jima in World War 2. They set up in position to fire over dunes. Scene shifts to Shermans moving along a ridge. Mount Suribachi is visible in distant background. Shells striking across beachhead. A Marine and mortar position in foreground. Ocean in background. A huge explosion raises smoke and dust. Glimpse of a Sherman tank silhouetted against background.
German soldiers surrender to United States soldiers in Turin, Italy during World War II. Two German soldiers examine grave of German soldiers. Convoy of motor carriages and passenger cars carry German officers to an assembly area. Captured German soldier prisoners of war march on the road.
German soldiers surrender to United States soldiers in Turin, Italy during World War II. Convoy of motor carriages and passenger cars carry German officers to an assembly area. German soldier prisoner of war (POW) with bandaged arm. Soldiers wave.
German soldiers surrender to United States soldiers in Italy during World War II. Captured German soldier prisoners of war (POW) relax on an open ground in the assembly area. German surrendered artillery displayed on ground.
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