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German forces initiate offensive in Battle of Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) during World War II
As film begins, two German soldiers are seen riding on a tank destroyer with a toy stuffed bear fastened to its gun barrel,during German counter offensive (Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Battle of the Ardennes) in World War 2. Camera focuses on the toy bear as the tank destroyer passes. View from rear of a vehicle of road behind crowded with utility vehicles, motorcycles, and trucks transporting troops. American soldiers taken as prisoners of war (POW) march through muddy field. They march under guard along a muddy road past heavily camouflaged German military vehicles and through woods. Closeups of some prisoners. A flight of 4 single engine aircraft flies overhead. Narrator says they are American airplanes. German soldiers, in a field, fire an anti-aircraft gun at the planes. Black smoke rises from a downed airplane. Closeup of SS soldiers manning anti-aircraft gun. Explosion from a bomb bursting in woods. German soldiers wave as they are buzzed by friendly German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft. A formation of German aircraft overhead. A German officer steps from a camouflaged staff car to point at the planes. A soldier on a motorcycle looks up at the airplanes in the sky. A soldier riding on a canvas covered tank destroyer accepts a baked good from a woman on a roadside. He waves at group of well-wishers who stand with baskets of gifts for the soldiers. View from back of the tank destroyer of children waving at it. A dozen German soldiers riding on a Tiger II tank. Field Marshal Walter Model, overall Commander of 5th and 6th Panzer Armies, conversing with soldiers and officers in the field.
American prisoners of war captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II
Opening scene shows large numbers of U.S. Army soldiers taken prisoners in the final German counter offensive of World War 2, known as the Battle of the Ardennes or Battle of the Bulge. German photographer concentrates on African American soldiers in the group, with closeups of many, juxtaposing them with closeups of German soldiers. A German Panzer IV tank passes a hillside where many American prisoners are seated on the ground. A horse-drawn wagon and a Panzer III tank pass the hillside, and then the American prisoners are herded, under guard toward the road below. Scene shifts to German soldiers sharing captured American foods and cigarettes. Several German soldiers in camouflage uniforms. One carries an M34 machine gun with a circular magazine. A dozen German soldiers are seen crowded atop a tank. A tiger II tank (Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B) drives through a village. Closeup of crewmen on a tank. One rides astride the gun barrel. Another mans a machine gun. Closeup of another machine gunner atop a tank. Several more Tiger II tanks moving through the village.
German soldier plays the organ in a church in Southern France during World War II
At beginning, and throughout the film, organ music is heard as camera pans from top of a church tower, down across the roof and sides, to the front of a church building in a German occupied town in Southern France, during World War 2. A lone German soldier patrols an empty street in the background. Closeup of the German soldier patrolling. Camera pans over stained glass window inside the church to a German soldier at keyboard playing the church organ. Camera shifts to view of interior balcony and stained glass windows at front of the church. View of soldiers hands on the keyboard as he plays the organ. Interior view of side of the church with pillars above which Gothic arches extend toward the roof. Camera pans down to view from behind the organist, showing him and the full interior of the church in the background, behind him. (The organ is located in a loft at the rear of the church.) Closeup profile of the soldier organist. Camera pans inside, showing damage to roof and then down to large pieces of masonry rubble on the floor. View changes to closeup profile of a German soldier standing outside at the door of the church.
German SS troops prepared to defend positions in Southern Normandy after Allied D-day invasion in World War II
Film starts showing a camouflaged German Stug IV assault gun parked in front of a sidewalk and building in Southern France during World War 2. German soldiers are congregated on the sidewalk. Closeup of German SS (Schutzstaffel) officers huddled together looking at a map held by one of them. They all display the Death Head (totenkopf) insignia on their caps. Closeup of seated SS officers consulting a map. One wears insignia of SS-Storm Unit Leader (Sturmbannfuhrer). Scene shifts to German soldiers moving rapidly out of a village in a camouflaged Leopard I tanks and camouflaged (with foliage) "Kübelwagens." A camouflaged half track carrying supplies and towing an artillery piece is accompanied by several walking troops. Scene shifts to a soldier with surveying scope on tripod giving hand signals to assistant (unseen). German soldiers remove a rocket launcher (Nebelwerfer) hidden in trees at the edge of a field. View of several such launchers lined up in a battery at edge of forest. View of German infantry moving under cover and of a soldier crawling under a tank for protection. Change of scene shows several soldiers relaxing inside a dugout. Four soldiers share a single dish meal. A small hog is shown as a pet in a camp. Troops pet it. A soldier on a bicycle carries treats to one in a defensive position. Soldier with binoculars looks out on Normandy terrain comprised of mixed woodland and pasture (Bocage: also called Hedgerows by Americans in World War 2.) German soldier slogging through mud. A soldier calls to another who peers out from his well established dugout. Soldiers dressed in camouflage consult a map. German patrol sets out. One of the soldiers climbs a tree. Closeup of him climbing. Another soldier seen comfortably perched a tree with his weapon. Two patrolling soldiers run from cover of a tree, and make their way across a grassy plain. Officer looking through binoculars. Soldiers in grassy field stay down as explosions sound and smoke rises from shells striking in distance. Closeups of Several soldiers helping each other as they go through hip deep water in swampy part of grassy field. German artillery firing from established positions near a river. Several soldiers make their way from across the grassy field to join others in well established camouflaged defensive positions.
German Forces continue resistance against Allied advances two months after the D-day invasion of Normandy in World War II
Opening scene shows a German half track (Sd.Kfz. 251) racing through sandy areas in Normandy during World War 2. Closeup of the half track. It is followed by a Panzer III tank. View across a grassy field of shells exploding in the distance. Glimpse of a German soldier's helmet as he ducks down to fire an artillery piece. Close view of a shell exploding and throwing debris into the air. A destroyed building in the background. View from top of closed up self-propelled gun as it fires.Shell exploding in near distance, raising dense smoke. Closeup of a knocked out smoking Allied tank. German soldiers silhouetted against background, as they run from area filled with white smoke. German tank firing from camouflaged position nested in huge pile of twigs. German infantry advancing along sides of a road in a rural village and running past some bombed out buildings including some on fire.
Women line up at post office, woman writes a letter using V-Mail, the primary method of correspondence to soldiers stationed abroad, during WW2
"strictly G.I." title card. Women line up at post office to send mail. Poster advertising “V-Mail”, the primary method of correspondence with soldiers stationed abroad during World War Two. Poster reads "Reach Your Boy Overseas." Man at teller window gives woman a standardized V-Mail envelope. Hands sorting through pile of blank V mail forms. Hands of a woman writing a letter from Betty Smith to CPL. Larry Ross on V-Mail using fountain pen. Hand with pencil addressing V-Mail. Woman's hands folding V-Mail envelope.
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