The Russian Campaign of World War II. A German observation balloon in flight in Soviet Union. An airman looking through binoculars. German soldiers beside artillery on a field. German infantry and tanks moving on a path between fields. Troops and StuG III tank destroyers entering a city. A few German soldiers outside the entrance door of a building. Russian troops surrender and soldiers with raised arms step out of the door. Russian prisoners of war move in columns. German soldiers beside damaged buildings on a city street. Debris strewn on the street. A few soldiers on the bank of a water body. Smoke rising from shelled Russian positions in the background. A German 38t tank moving in water with a soldier atop the hatch. Artillery fired at more positions and smoke rising from the areas. Beute French Hotchkiss and Somua tanks firing at night and flares from the explosions.
The Red Army in Yalta, Ukraine during World War II. Scenic views of Yalta. Barrels kept in rows on the ground outside a building. Soviet soldiers are served wine by civilians. The soldiers drinking the wine. Red Army soldiers inside a building. Women officers looking in a mirror. A fort in the city. The soldiers in the fort. Huge statues of lions outside the fort. The soldiers beside the statues. They climb down the steps of the fort. German prisoners of war marched in columns along a path escorted by Russian troops. A map showing the path of movement of Red Army troops through various cities.
A film titled 'Thunderbolt' about the aftermath of Allied air attacks in Italy during World War 2 . A U.S. Army Air Force pilot seated in the cockpit of an aircraft. Cameras fixed up in different parts of the aircraft. The cameras attached to wings, a wheel well and the instrument panel. Actor James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart), seated in a chair, reads a telegram by Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Forces Major General Carl Spaatz. Damaged buildings in Italy after Allied air attacks during World War II. Men guide a pack of mules down a road. Damaged buildings as a horse drawn cart moves past them. Displaced Italians on a road. An Italian civilian woman with a crying child. Two young Italian children children walk past damaged buildings and step cautiously avoiding a decomposed dead body amidst debris. Aerial views of mountains in Italian Alps and rugged terrain in Italy. Bomb craters on the ground leaving some areas of Italy as only rubble. A waterfall tumbling down a rocky hillside. Aerial views of buildings and a river in a town. Scenes of demolished railroad marshaling yards from Allied bombing campaigns.
German General (Generalleutnant) Kurt Dittmar surrenders in Magdeburg, Germany during World War 2. German military commander General Dittmar, who was also Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces, stands with his party, including his son, young German soldier Berend Dittmar, Major Pluskat, and Major Werner, as American soldiers escort them. General Dittmar carries on an extended conversation with a French war corresondent. View of destroyed bridge span over the Elbe River, Magdeburg, Germany. German General Dittmar and his son, the boy soldier carrying a white flag with Red Cross on it, walk along sandy shore. They are met by U.S. Army soldiers of the 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, including Captain Henry Abbes of Glendale, Long Island, New York, Commander of 'K' Company, who escort them. German General Dittmar conversing with captors while smoking a pipe, and then walking with his son, accompanied by American officers, through rubble strewn street of Magdeburg. (Records indicate that General Dittmar had traveled across the Elbe to ask for assistance in evacuating injured German soldiers and civilians from the east bank of the Elbe. U.S. Major General Leland Hobbs refused, and rather than returning across the River Elbe, Dittmar surrendered.)
A Japanese submarine underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A Japanese crew aboard the submarine as it comes to visit a German submarine base. German naval officer delegation comes aboard the Japanese submarine and welcomes the Japanese crew. German women present flowers to Japanese sailors. A barrel being unloaded. Japanese and German crewmen smoke cigarettes. German and Japanese officers eat food. Japanese men smile as they eat. The Japanese and the Germans compete at a hurdle race, wrestling and a tug of war. A Japanese officer salutes as the submarine leaves the German base.
Japanese troops in action in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Early Japanese A6M Zero aircraft in flight. Aerial view of the ground below. Point of view shots from inside A6M Zero as it strafes targets along a Chinese road. Japanese soldiers advance and set up field artillery. The artillery being fired. A Japanese officer gives instructions over a field radio. Heavy machine guns and mortars being fired. A village on fire upon the arrival of Japanese forces. Japanese soldiers capture Chinese civilians in the village. Japanese troops march forward and supplies are carried on horseback.
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