Animated map showing the Atlantic coast of France in World War II. Allied and German officers facilitate a prisoner exchange at Dunkirk, France. A group of Allied prisoners of war are gathered at a port in Northern France for a prisoner exchange. Red Cross workers exchange papers with officers. An injured prisoner is carried by two soldiers as the prisoners of war board a boat. A boat loaded with German soldiers pulling away from the port. Some of the soldiers wave happily to the camera. Soldiers taking pictures and videos with cameras. German soldiers getting out of boat and celebrating. German officers at staff meeting, with maps behind them. German military officials broadcast to the people of Germany about the repatriation of captured troops back to Germany.
Allied aircraft in flight and dropping shells toward enemy targets. Explosions on the ground seen from the air as bombs hit targets. Gun camera footage of Allied aircraft attacking and strafing parked German aircraft, roads, and railroads. Newspaper headline announcing Allies penetrating further into Germany. U.S. Army soldiers advancing on foot. U.S. soldiers firing artillery. Artillery in action, explosion can be seen.
Allied military in Germany after World War II. German General Hans-Ulrich Rudel, ace German Air Force Ju-87, Stuka dive bomber pilot, meets American officers. He appears to have lost a leg and walks with crutches in a garden with his aide and American military officials. They sit on chairs and talk. Numerous medals and awards displayed on General Rudel's uniform.
Allied military in Germany after World War II. High ranking German prisoners move into a C-47 aircraft. Among the prisoners are German ace General Adolf Galland, ace German Luftwaffe pilot Hans-Ulrich Von Rudel and other officials. Officials smiling and talking with each other. General Von Rudel with one leg (peg on the other) walks using calipers.
Germany after Allied military forces take over at close of World War II. Destroyed railway marshaling yard after the bombardment by Allied bombers. Wrecked freight wagons carry a destroyed camouflaged car. Wrecked equipment and railroad tracks mangled by bomb explosions. Destroyed fuselage of a German warplane on a wrecked freight car. Swastika on wrecked Nazi airplanes.
View of a wrecked hangar on airfield in Germany, just before the end of World War 2. American flag at half mast in front of the hangar. A U.S. military jeep with a red flag passes the hangar. Several USAAF P-47 Thunderbolts parked at the base including one nicknamed 'Malicious Mary.' Several P-47s land at the airfield.
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