United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. German soldier with hands raised surrenders to United States Army soldiers. Destroyed buildings and wreckage along the street sides. Debris on the street. View from camera position looking out of at a street-level city window as a German Panzer tank is hit by fire from an Allied tank and goes up in flames, near the Cologne Cathedral. Smoke rising from the burning tank. (This is a slightly more distant view of the well-documented attack on a German Mark V Panzer tank, by gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer in an American M-26 Pershing tank).
U.S. soldiers of the 8th Armored Division in Wachtendonck (Wachtendonk), Germany during World War II. View from high point overlooking country road in Germany. A line of U.S. Army 2.5 ton canvas-covered trucks parked along the roadside. After some blurring, scene shifts to a halted convoy of U.S. Army vehicles and troops along left side of road, being passed by troops riding in M3 half-tracks and Jeeps headed in the opposite direction. View from stopped convoy shows a Brockway B-666 Bridge Erecting truck passing. Next, a large group of women, children, and elderly civilians are seen leaving town of Wachtendonk, on foot, with few possessions. They walk past a parked Brockway B-666 truck. A mother and a father, carrying small child, walk on village street.
Opening scene shows the Monument to the Battle of the Nations erected in Leipzig, in 1913, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the epic battle of Leipzig, and the defeat of Napoleon by a coalition of allies arrayed against the French. Notable are images of Teutonic knights standing guard around the upper periphery of the monument. Closeup of the base of the monument and entranceway. Some signs of war damage are visible. Camera pans upward. An American soldier is seen in lower left foreground, manning an M45 Browning .50 caliber Quadmount anti-aircraft gun. Camera continues to pan over details of the monument. (World War 2; WWII; WW2)
U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower inspects soldiers in the European Theater. During World War II. General Eisenhower and U.S. Army General Omar Bradley visit the front. Buildings along the sides of a street. They stop at Command Posts of 8th Division, 2nd Division, 9th Division, 28th Division and 46th Infantry Battalion, 5th Armored Division. Soldiers standing outside a building. Eisenhower inspects the soldiers. Eisenhower comes out of the building with officers. General Eisenhower speaks with Division Commanders. Major General Walter M Robertson, Major General Louis A Craig, Major General Norman D Cota and Major General Lunsford E Oliver present. Eisenhower shakes hands with the soldiers.
U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War 2. M8 and T27 armored cars, of the U.S. 91st Reconnaissance Squadron, cross narrow pontoon bridge over a river in Leghorn (Livorno) Italy. A destroyed steel bridge and bombed out buildings in background.
American GI, with the U.S. 16th Armored Division, sits in the cab of a 2.5 ton 6X6 U.S. Army cargo truck (CCKW) and talks with a girl, in Pilsen Czechoslovakia, during World War 2. A Technical Sergeant and another soldier sit on the truck hood.A U.S. soldiers standing on the hood and another in the rear of a Willys MB U.S. Army Jeep, lead a column of surrendering German officers and soldiers, as they march through crowds on a Pilsen street. Several scenes of the marching German troops. They are halted at a town square. Sign on fence in center of area contains U.S. Army logo and words:"Ivanhoe PWE." An American soldier speaks briefly to lieutenant General Georg von Majewski, Commander of the surrendering German forces. View from above of U.S. Army trucks and jeeps gathered near the square. Next, civilians are seen gathered around American soldiers in parked jeeps and seated on an M24 Chafee light tank. The soldiers sign autographs for the Czech civilians.
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