United States Army soldiers drive a 1/4-ton truck on muddy road in Merode, Germany during World War II. Wheels of 1/4-ton Army truck spinning and moving in the mud. A soldier follows the trucks in the forest road. A man stands on the running board of a moving medic Jeep “Skippy”. Soldiers push a Jeep stuck in muddy road. Wheels spinning while stuck in mud. Soldier fastens chains into Jeep’s front bumper. The vehicle slowly moves through the muddy forest road.
United States Army soldiers walking through flooded, muddy forest road in Merode, Germany following heavy rains during World War II. The American soldiers walk carefully through soft mud. Close-up views of legs and boots of U.S. Army soldiers walking in deep mud that completely covers boots. Soldiers’ feet lift out of the mud as they move. Soldiers and medic tie cables onto two trucks’ bumpers as they prepare to free a truck stuck in mud.
German Aeronautical research facility in Stuttgart, Germany before World War 2. German technicians opening doors on top of aircraft engine test room. Propellers run on high speed during engine tests. A technician opens door. A large machine that runs engine tests. Technicians operating test consoles. A Tacho Waage speedometer measures engine test speed.
U.S. Army training film depicts racial theories used by the German Nazi party. Clip includes mix of actual footage and actor portrayals. Actors portraying Nazi leaders Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goring and others at their office. Next scene is authentic footage of book burning by Nazi soldiers. Actor portraying prisoner in jail cell. Actual view of people in Germany migrating with their belongings. Several views of University students crossing a bridge over River Lahn, and buildings of Philipps University of Marburg in Marburg Germany during the late 1930s or early 1940s. View of news commentator speaking at microphone of BBC radio. Cover page of an edition of The New York Times as example of media banned in Nazi Germany. Actual footage of Goebbels speaking and addressing a group. Footage of champion African American boxer Joe Louis fighting in the boxing ring. His fights were banned to be seen in Germany. View of scientist Albert Einstein walking in a garden area outdoors and then on a footpath toward what appears to be Nassau Hall of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA. Remainder of clip shows dramatized scenes with actors, as follows: Catholic priest and a judge express fear from hatred spread by Nazis and oppose Nazi theories. They were put into concentration camp. A teacher in class disapproves Nazi theory of racial supremacy. Nazi soldiers arrest him. (World War II period).
Germany and Japan defeated in World War II. The defeat of Germany is celebrated in United States. Scenes represent the life of a typical Japanese soldier: a flag is raised to celebrate his birth; boys in uniform play war; troops sack Nanking; and in1944 he is killed to attack over harbor in America. In a dramatization, a soldier with an American machine gun is killed. Dead Americans. American soldiers honor their dead comrades covered with United States flag.
U.S. 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of Bulge in the Western Front of World War 2. A map points Belgium, Germany and France. United States Army soldiers move forward in snow on the front. They pass through the Ardennes. Scenes of U.S. and German soldiers. Snow and ice covered forest. American soldiers on tanks and half-track vehicles. U.S. troops cross the Rhine River over a captured bridge at Remagen. The 1st. Division continues to move through Germany all the way to Czechoslovakia. German soldiers load up into trucks at war's end. Soldiers smoke, talk and rest. A soldier talks on phone. Quick scene from Nuremberg trials.
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