General Eisenhower confers with British Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory and British Air Chief Marshal, Sir Arthur Tedder, in front of a map of Europe on a wall. New York Post, June 6, 1944, headline reads "INVASION Smashing Inland." U.S. troops assault beach at Normandy on D-Day and several fall from enemy fire during World War II. German troops surrendering as Americans advance. Dead German soldier. Adolf Hitler sits in a room. B-24 bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 2nd Bomb Wing, 446th Bomb Group, in flight on mission over Germany. Bombs falling on target. View through gun camera of fighter strafing German aircraft on the ground and strafing a railroad train filled with ammunition, that explodes. Sun newspaper headline reads: 'Allies plunging deep into Reich.' U.S. troops move through grassy field. U.S. artillery crew fires M-114, 155mm Howitzer under camouflage net. New York World Telegram newspaper headline reads: 'Allies swarm across Rhine'. U.S. troops crossing the Ludendorff Bridge, at Remagen, Germany. View of dead victims at German concentration camp. Journal American newspaper headline reads: 'Mass surrender of foe underway'. German prisoners of war double-time march running along a road with hands held high in surrender. Emotion and distress show on face of very young German boy soldier as he unbuttons his coat. A German woman sits quietly in background. A mile long line of German prisoners march in a field. A Nazi Swastika flag burning on the ground.
Adolf Hitler arrives in his Mercedes Benz 770 Cabriolet to visit a new German armored (Panzer) Division. Marshal Hermann Goering, who is leading a cadre of top German Military commanders, steps forward to welcome Hitler. As they walk back together, a long line of saluting troops can be seen stretched along the side of the pavement into the distance. Hitler shakes hands with Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, as Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz stands, saluting with his baton. He also greets Generaloberst (Colonel General) Kurt Zeitzler,Chief of the Army General Staff. He goes on to greet two junior Panzer officers, one of whom has his arm in a sling. View of Hitler mingling with Goering, and the other marshals and generals.Scene shifts back to Hitler shaking hands with a soldier, standing next to the wounded one. He then greets Generaloberst Heinz Guderian, Inspector General of Armoured Troops. Scenes of Hitler walking and conversing with his senior officers. They walk past a Hetzer light tank destroyer, Jagdpanzer 38 (Sd.Kfz. 138/2), where black uniformed Panzertruppen (Armored Troops) are standing at attention. (World War II period).
U.S. Army trucks moving along a paved mountain road in Volturno River valley region of Italy during World War 2. Sign at the road reads: "Road under direct observation and Artillery Fire. Keep 100 yds interval." U.S. troops gathered at roadside are passed by a jeep and a light truck with a protected anti-aircraft gun mounted in its back. Army signal corps soldiers installing telephone wires on an existing Italian pole. A peaceful valley pasture is disturbed by German artillery shells bursting in it. American army gunners firing a 105mm howitzers at German positions. A cluster of the shells bursting on a distant hillside. U.S. 155mm long tom guns being loaded and fired from camouflaged position in trees, and from under a camouflage netting. The shells exploding and raising white smoke along the base of hill overlooking the valley. Various views of the 155s firing. A wounded soldier being transported on a stretcher, down some mountainous terrain. U.S. infantry marching single file past a dead German soldier. Views of mountain roads blown away by retreating German forces. Combat engineers are challenged to build a bridge against a sheer cliff on the mountain. They employ jackhammers and manual tools and improvise support structures of heavy timbers. An engineer using a sledge hammer to drive a spike into the timbers. A team of men carry a heavy timber. Engineers creating a bridging structure, on the spot, to allow passage from one section of road to another. Finally, a jeep drives across the new bridge.
United States Zone in Munich, Germany. A view of a building damaged due to World War II bombing. The building undergoes repair. An Apartment house displays huge bomb crater in the center. A long row of German civilian cars on street. Pedestrians on street. Workers repair street car rails. People buy newspapers from a vendor. A streetcar in the background.
International Youth Camp in Germany. Scenic view of a lake with mountains in the background. A long line of young men in uniform. The young men carry their luggage. Brassard on arms of uniform. Young men stand in formation. Insignia on uniform. Nazi officer welcomes leaders with Nazi salute. Names of living quarters in camp include "Nordland," "Wifinger", and "Widufind." Young men run out of barracks in uniform and then march and do exercise while shirtless.
A long racing sled in Bridgeton, Maine. A large number of men and women sit on a bob-sled. Buildings in the background. The sled carries people over snow on the mountains. Trees lined on either side of the snow covered ground. Several men watch as the sled passes by. Cameramen take pictures.
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