Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges of the United States Army at Master Tac headquarters area in Belgium, during World War II. Hodges and other official get down from a truck. Military car and an escort jeep arrive at the headquarters. A soldier uncovers plate with a 3 star symbol on the jeep and sedan.
Prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria released after liberation of the camp at end of World War II. Starved, naked and extremely weak prisoners walk out of German prison barracks. These victims of Nazi atrocities, many too weak to walk, are carried by other inmates and aid workers. View of camp barracks with mountains in background.
Allied military forces in Spittal Austria at conclusion of World War II. United States Army 80th Division tanks and ΒΌ ton trucks parked on a mountain road. Relaxed Allied soldiers on roofs, roads and bridges. German prisoners assemble in a ground where they are searched by the soldiers. Smiling prisoners march behind a horse drawn vehicle along a mountain road.
Victory meeting at the 12th Army Group Headquarters, Bad Wildungen in Germany attended by Generals of the Allied forces post World War II. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General Courtney Hodges along with other Generals and officials of the Allied army are present. A horse gifted to General Bradley by Russian Marshal Konev.
Generals of the Allied forces attend a Victory meeting at the 12th Army Group Headquarters, Bad Windungen in Germany post World War II. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General Courtney Hodges along with other Generals and officials of the Allied army step out of the headquarter building and settle for a group photograph. Generals inspect a horse gifted to General Omar Bradley by Russian Marshal Konev.
A U.S. Army Air Corps honor guard stands around a C-47 transport plane, at an airport in Torgau, Germany at end of World War 2. Glimpse from behind of officers assembling on the ramp near the airplane. Closeup of the Ninth Air Force logo and the name, "Suzanne,"below the pilot's window on the aircraft. A staff car arrives and several U.S. Army Air Corps officers step from the car, including Lieutenant General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Commander of the 9th Air Force and Major General Otto P Weyland, who would succeed him as 9th Air Force Commander. They join officers of the Free French Air Force at an area of the airfield ramp beside a destroyed hangar. They shake hands and talk with Free French Air Force officers, wearing black caps. The one in Leather jacket is General Martial Henri Valin Commander of Free French Air Force. Closeup of General Valin and General Vandenberg conversing. All stand at attention and salute colors or band plays National Anthems (unseen) General Vandenberg leaves walking toward the camera and boards his aircraft, as those behind shake hands and say good byes. A brass band plays and then the honor guard marches away from the aircraft. The right engine starts and then the left. An unidentified Air Corps Brigadier General waves goodby as the C-47 taxis out for takeoff.
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