United States 28th Infantry Division (Keystone Division) near Vossenack, Germany, in November, 1944, during World War 2. Soldiers of 110th Infantry Regiment advance through the Hurtgen forest near Vossenack. They take cover behind trees and fire at an unseen enemy. Soldiers lying prone on the field as they fire. Soldiers carry M1928 field packs, canteens and M1 Garand rifles. One soldier fires an M-1 rifle from the prone position behind a tree.
United States 1104th Engineers Combat group in Germany during World War II. A bulldozer in operation as it removes earth from the entrance of a German pillbox. It removes mud to uncover the entrance to the pillbox. Men use shovels to remove the dirt from the entrance of the pillbox. A soldier with a welding torch as he cuts and removes the door of the pillbox. An explosion occurs. The pillbox after the explosion. A man climbs up onto the damaged pillbox.
Farewell review for general Arthur G. Trudeau in Weisbaden, Germany. Officers trooping line and passing colors at the ceremony. Officers to be decorated. General Trudeau and Colonel John L. Ryan move forward and halt on the field. An officer reads citations and hands medals to Fred Coggles, Belgian consul General. General John H. Collier stands along side General Trudeau and Colonel Ryan. Coggles places the order of Leopold II around the neck of General Trudeau and presents Colonel Ryan with the medallion. General Collier announces that he is going to present a letter of commendation to General Trudeau from Major General Issac D. White. General Collier presents the letter to General Trudeau.
German people cut trees at Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany, as German people struggle and forage for food, supplies, and fuel shortly following World War 2. Men and women cut a tree at Tiergarten with Sieges Saele monument in the background. Tree falls and the monument being revealed. A child waits by a baby carriage as the mother gathers wood. Mother puts wood in a perambulator. A boy and an old woman sawing a tree. A woman chops at the stump of the tree.
People cut trees at Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany. A woman chops a tree with Brandenburg Gate in the background. People cut trees and take away wood on hand drawn carts and trolleys. People move away with chopped wood with Sieges Saele in background. A woman loads wood onto a cart with a Prussian eagle in foreground. Charlottenburger Chaussee as woman pull cart loaded with wood. People pull carts down road as they move past pictures of Stalin, Churchill and other Allied leaders. (World War II period).
People collect and carry wood in Berlin, Germany. Grave of soldiers in foreground as women pull away a hand drawn cart loaded with wood. Woman walks down a snow covered street. A few men and one woman pull hand drawn carts loaded with wood down a street. People walk past a monument with pictures of Churchill and Stalin. Men and women pull carts loaded with wood. (World War II period).
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