End of World War II in Europe. Piles of rusted bearings at Kugelfischer Factory in Germany. Bomb damaged buildings in the factory. Rusted damaged machinery. German prisoners of war work inside the factory. They lift wooden platforms.
U.S. fighter aircraft attacking ground targets in Germany unopposed near the end of World War II. Aerial view of green fields and small villages. Wrecked aircraft scattered in an open field. United States aircraft strafe a German hydroplane in a river. Smoke rises from a burned German air base.
United States troops in Germany during World War II. U.S. tank drives past captured German aircraft destroying the wing of the aircraft. Soldiers aboard tank as they fire at German positions. Soldier speaks over a phone.
United States troops in Germany during World War II. Crew members elevate tank guns next to a tank. Soldiers gather around mortar shells. They load and fire mortars on German positions. Troops aboard a tank firing at enemy. Soldier looks through binoculars.
Scenes of captured site where Me 262 jet aircraft were assembled by Flugzeugwerke Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (or Goering) (REIMAHG) in an old porcelain sand mine in the Walpersberg mountain, near Kahla. Germany. (The secret project was codenamed "Lachs" or Salmon). View of a tunnel entrance, from inside. .A partial Me 262 with wings, is silhouetted against tunnel entrance and several in stages of assembly can be seen darkly inside.a bombproof bunker. A middle/rear fuselage of an Me 262 is seen on a wagon outside the bunker buildings. Two bombproof bunker buildings are seen on their own. A tall derrick crane is seen moving objects from the facility. (Existing mining tunnels within the Walpersberg razorback mountain were expanded for production and bombproof buildings were constructed around its perimeter. An inclined lift was used to raise Me 262's from the perimeter building area to the top of the mountain, where a takeoff strip had been created for delivery of the aircraft to the Luftwaffe. The U.S. Army occupied the site on April 12th 1945, and reportedly removed enough partial assemblies and parts to produce five Me 262s for testing and research.)
United States troops in Germany during World War II. Convoy of United States tanks and jeeps drives on a pontoon bridge. Soldiers aboard the tanks. American flag on tanks and jeeps. Vehicles drive past on the pontoon bridge.
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