American Red Cross hospital area in Munich during World War II. Patients are carried out from tents and placed in ambulances on stretchers. Ambulance drives off. Patients are loaded into C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Ambulance pulls off. Aircraft door closes. C-47s taxiing on runway for take off.
U.S. troops removing casualty from aircraft and firing antiaircraft gun in Munich during World War II. Casualty is being removed from B-26 Marauder aircraft and loaded into ambulance. Ambulance drives off. Blood stains and hole inside B-26 aircraft. Gun crew fires an antiaircraft gun.
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilots in Munich during World War II. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot opens cockpit and removes his face mask. Airman inserts fuses in a 500-lb bomb. Squadron insignia on flight jacket of pilot, insignia is that of the Hell Hawks. Various pilots pose.
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes in Munich during World War II. P-47's engine revs up. P-47 taxis past ruined building with crew chief on the wing of the aircraft. P-38 Lightening planes overhead.
In Berlin, at the end of World War 2, in Europe, a large group of ordinary people gather at a hill of debris where a building once stood. Men and Women use shovels to dig dirt from sidewalk and place it in buckets, that others pass up the hill, in a bucket brigade. Closeup of people filling the buckets at the base of the pile of debris. The bucket brigade consists mostly of women. They transfer the filled buckets up the hill and empty ones down via a separate group of volunteers. The buckets are emptied at the top of the heap. Some women transfer large fragments of concrete to one another. The entire project seems intended to clear more space in the sidewalks and streets. View from a high point reveals skeletons of tall buildings and other groups doing similar work to clear rubble from the city walks and roads.
At the end of World War 2, in Europe, citizens of Berlin (mostly women) cooperate in a bucket brigade to clear rubble from their walks and streets. Lacking any machinery, they use shovels to fill buckets and pass them up the hill of debris at the base of bombed out buildings. A train passes below damaged roadway where camera is located. Camera pans to the cleanup site, where dozens of people are occupied. Closup of a man using a mason's hammer to break concrete slabs so they can be moved by hand. Women inside the walls of a demolished building, where they empty the buckets and throw the concrete slabs.
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