Allied troops move against German counterattacks in Belgium and Western Germany during World War II. United States troops move along a muddy road in Belgium. Incendiary explosion. Tire on fire from incendiary. A soldier looks at wrecked American military jeeps and ruined buildings. Heavy smoke rises from a pile of wreckage. Fleeing civilians and refugees walk on the road on foot. Some of the civilians bring bicycles. Belgian Roman Catholic priests wearing Cappello romano hats are seen moving with the group. African American motorized infantry moving into Belgium. An African American soldier smoking cigarette on passing truck. Soldiers in the Ardennes Forest. A soldier plants M1 anti-tank mines in the Ardennes. He places a mine in a hole in the ground. The soldier covers the mine with a pile of dried leaves. Soldiers setting up roadblocks and covering tanks with foliage for camouflage. An M3 Stuart light tank is covered with hay to disguise as a haystack. United States soldiers carefully search the field for Nazi paratroopers. A soldier finds abandoned parachute equipment and white snow cape. Soldiers inspect passing trucks at an intersection between Bastogne and Martelange in Wallonia, Belgium. Belgian civilians fleeing a German advance on Highway 15. American Military Police personnel diligently searching for disguised German soldiers to prevent infiltration. A Military Police officer inspects a Belgian man’s identification paper. Military Police personnel questions a driver of a Jeep. Soldiers digging a dugout. Soldier with an M1917 Browning Machine gun. Artillery crew firing a M101 105 mm Howitzer. A pile of shells stands beside the Howitzer. An officer gives out orders to fire over telephone. Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 tanks firing in the Ardennes. A soldier inspects with binoculars. Infantry troops moving across a field and village. Soldiers firing rifles from behind a stone fence. A soldier deposits a charge into a basement window, followed by explosion. Soldier fires bazooka in haze. Soldiers looking up to the sky searching for air support. Allied bombers flying over Belgium. British Royal Air Force bombers dropping bombs over a road junction as seen from bomb bay view.
United States troops attend a religious service in the bivouac area in Les Avenanterres, Belgium during World War II. Kneeling soldiers stand up in the snow-covered forest. The hood of a jeep is used as an altar. The soldiers disperse after the service ended. Soldiers of the Hq Co, 3rd Battalion, 508th Infantry Parachute Regiment, 83rd Division AB Infantry leave the bivouac area and march on snowy road. A man walks toward a solitary house. Soldiers take refuge from the snow inside a partially destroyed stone house. Icicles hanging from the house’s roof. A soldier reads a paper. Soldier cleans M1919 Browning machine gun. Troops shaving their faces. A soldier cooks by heating an open can over fire.
United States troops make snow capes for winter camouflage in Vossenach, Germany during World War II. A soldier puts on a white suit and a snow cape in the forest. He is assisted by another soldier. A soldier of the 78th Division makes snow capes from mattress covers on a captured German sewing machine. The soldier uses the sewing machine in front of a snow-covered dugout. Another soldier helps with measurement and cutting the white cloth.
Allied motor convoys move to the front in deep snow of western front, France during World War II. A convoy of United States Army trucks drive along snow-covered road in winter. Trucks and other military vehicles pass by forests and take mountainous hairpin road. Trucks pass by a checkpoint. Soldiers sit at the back of a truck. Ski troops wearing snow capes glide the snow-covered slopes. The soldiers carefully cross a fence. Skiing soldier in snow cape slips on the slope.
German Panzergrenadier troops use artillery, mortars, and machine guns to stop the Soviet Red Army offensive in Poland and the Eastern Front during World War II. Map of Poland with the names of cities and the Vistula River in German. German troops in dugouts wait for the Red Army. A German soldier adjusts the straps of his Stahlhelm helmet. Bombers dropping bombs over enemy positions. A bomb explodes upon hitting the ground. German gun crew firing with anti-aircraft gun (likely 8.8cm FlaK 18 L-56). Explosion in a forest. A German soldier backs away. Gun crews fire anti-tank flaks covered with camouflage. A flamethrower tank shoots flames at ground. A German grenadier tosses a fuel container from foxhole while other Grenadiers load shells into mortars in foxholes. Pillars of smoke rises in battlefield. German troops shooting with rifles and machine guns from a basement. A German soldier fires with a Panzerschreck rocket launcher. Rockets firing in salvo. A German soldier with machine gun pointing. German troops and tanks advancing. Soldier assumes prone position in snow-covered village. German Panzer tanks firing at Soviet positions. More explosions from German tanks. Panzerschreck and mortar firing. Smoke from shell and rocket explosions covers the field. German soldiers stand on snow-covered foxhole. A bomber in flight. German soldier dressed in winter camouflage coat watches the bomber drop bombs. Explosion from bombs hitting the ground. Tanks firing at enemy positions. Panzergrenadier troops firing rifles from behind fences, climb from basement or walls. Aerial view of track marks from Soviet motorized column over snow covered winter landscape. Gun camera view of German Luftwaffe aircraft strafing a Red Army motorized column and Soviet tank explodes. A German aircraft in flight. Bullets flying in the battlefield at night.
A map of the Russian side of the Eastern Front, cities and rivers are written in German during World War II. Weapons in dugout. Soldiers use binoculars to observe their surroundings. German military commander speaks to soldiers during a meeting in a forest. German soldiers listen while sitting. German soldiers storm a building while street fighting in a Russian town. A soldier runs across the blasted hall. Debris is scattered all over the rooms. The soldiers crouch, one of them uses a phone. A German soldier uses “Donkey Ear” trench binoculars to observe the street from the window. Smoke rises from a destroyed factory. An officer gives out orders on the telephone. Gun crewmen begin to fire with Flak gun. Artillery firing at Russian positions. German gun crew fire with heavily camouflaged artillery. Explosion is seen on the left side of the camera, in the position of the gun crew. Smoke rising from several explosions.