Reminders of World War 2, in France, 1945. A high bridge of about eight masonry arches with two bombed out, in mountainous region of France. Camera pans right, showing a number of substantial homes scattered across the valley, with tall mountains behind. Scene shifts to a different, flatter landscape, where about a dozen U.S. Waco CG-4A gliders are seen abandoned in a field, in various states of disrepair. Writing in chalk on the side of one glider reads, "Whispering Yoddles, Fort Worth Texas, Little One Alice". There are no D-day stripes on these gliders, indicating they were probably used subsequent to the Normandy invasion, in other operations such as "Bluebird & Dove" in the South of France, in August, 1944.
View from the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4) as Sailor Charles (Bud) Cowart secures his position, suspended on a cable from the airship, 2000 feet above the ground following a cable ring failure that left three sailors dangling beneath the Akron, at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California.(The other two fell to their deaths.) Large group of sailors stand on ground below, watching. Crew of the Akron reel in the cable carrying Cowart and pull him aboard. View of Cowart, inside the Akron, calmly speaking of his experience.
The U.S. submarine AL-11 getting underway in the Atlantic ( possibly Bantry Bay Ireland) in World War 1. As the conning tower fairwater comes into view the short "post" seen in front of it is actually the 3"/23 caliber deck gun in its retracted position Activities of crewmen as they stow lines aboard the submarine. A gun mounted on the submarine. The deck of the submarine. The captain in the conning tower of the submarine. Another U.S. submarine displaying 'AL-10' on its conning tower. The submarine submerges under water. Yet, another U.S. submarine, the AL-4, moving on the surface. (Note: American "L" class submarines in British waters had to paint an "A" in front of their names so as not to be confused with the British "L" class submarines.)
Activities of U.S. Army 4th Armored Division in the damaged city of Worms in Germany during World War II. U.S. infantrymen climb over a wall as they advance in the damaged town. Bomb damage seen as U.S. soldiers move along the streets. Damaged buildings and houses. The soldiers move through debris.
Activities of U.S. Army 4th Armored Division in the damaged city of Worms in Germany during World War II. A German man walks near a railroad. A wrecked railroad station platform.
U.S. Army 4th Armored Division in vicinity of Worms, Germany during World war 2. View of the approach and towers of the Nibelungen Bridge over the Rhine River. The center spans have been destroyed. Closeup in shadow of the tower, where body of a fallen soldier lies on the concrete. View from roadway, of dropped bridge spans in river below. Closeup of the first fallen span with river flowing past. Two U.S. soldiers in shadows of the bridge. One looking through binoculars.
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