Nighttime operations in World War 2, by German military air and naval units. German Air Force aviators discuss a mission. German armorers fastening large bombs under fuselage of a German Dornier 17 twin engine bomber, at night. The aircrew boarding the aircraft. Engines running and the bomber taxiing out for takeoff. Scene switches to a German coastal gun firing in the darkness. Next, the wake from a German torpedo boat, is seen at night. Interior of the boat, showing controls. A gun on deck, and face of sailor operating the boat. TWo torpedoes being launched. Explosion and fire from torpedo striking a ship, seen at night. Controls of a ship set to full speed ahead. A torpedo being launched from a surfaced submarine at night. A huge explosion from the torpedo striking a target ship.
Map showing the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II. German soldiers carry supplies and load them into trucks. German army trucks, heavily camouflaged with foliage on a road in France. Closeup of a soldier in truck. A soldier scanning skies above for Allied aircraft. The truck pulls to side of road and soldiers stand looking up at planes overhead. German antiaircraft batteries firing. Allied bombs exploding near a German installation. Contrails overhead from U.S. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. Fires burning from Allied bombs. German trucks moving at night, through area of fires. Buildings in a city being destroyed by Allied bombing. German infantry moving past destroyed buildings. German troops pose at side of a road. Closeups of the battle-weary German soldiers. A German Stug IV tank destroyer. A German one-man armored car. Other German armor moving on road. German infantry and one soldier with a bicycle. Two soldiers carrying MG 42 machine guns with folded tripods, over their shoulders. One carrying a Panzerfaust recoilless anti tank weapon. Soldier putting foliage on his helmet. German troops advancing through wooded areas and running while under fire. Shells or bombs exploding only yards away. German soldiers hunkered down in ditches. More explosions extremely close to the camera. Troops smoking cigarettes during a brief lull. German armor moving in foliage. Soldiers stacking artillery shells and firing artillery. A knocked out Allied Sherman tank. German soldiers moving cautiously along roadside ditches. An American Sherman tank seen passing a farm building. German troops carrying antitank Panzerschreck and Panzerfaust weapons. An American M4 Sherman tank moving rapidly and a soldier firing a Panzerschreck. More U.S. tanks and more Panzerschreck anti-tank rocket launchers are being fired. German soldiers covered in foliage crawling through underbrush and running past U.S. tank. Soldiers sending out a Goliath Sd.kfz 302 remote controlled mine. Knocked out American armor. Weary and wounded German soldiers.
German soldiers taking American prisoners of war (POWs) during battle following Allied invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Two U.S. soldiers, holding their hands on their heads, being esorted by armed German soldiers. Several American soldier POWs, including some with bandaged wounds. Two French prisoners in civilian clothes. German soldiers escorting tens of American POWs. A few are wounded. One is helped to walk, by two others.
Huge fires burning in a French town due to battles between Allies and German forces and Allied bombing, following the Allied Invasion of Normandy in World War II. Buildings and homes being destroyed by the flames. French firefighters with hoses trying to control the fires. They use tall extension ladder and hoses in attempt to save a church building. They battle fires in several places. Two men hold a high pressure hose. Buildings destroyed and a tall factory chimney falling due to fires. Flames bursting from a shop in the midst of a block of such stores on a commercial street. Local citizens working together to clear debris in the wake of the fires. Workers carry a litter, with body of a victim retrieved from rubble. Closeups of distraught women. Scene shifts to German soldier stealthily carrying a shell to artillerymen under a camouflage netting. View of a German V-1 buzz bomb in flight overhead, on its way toward Britain.
German Panther tanks of 5.Pz.Div. and late model Pz.IV's at railhead in Russia during World War II. German tanks and StuG III assault gun on the move. Tiger tank ace Otto Carius studies map in his cupola. Troops rest and smoke beside Tiger tanks of s.Pz.Abt.502. Soldiers dig trenches and walk in them carrying their rifles. German troop reinforcements are welcomed as they arrive and file into the front lines and enter trenches. German gunners fire artillery and machine guns on advancing Russians. German tanks and StuG III tank destroyer fire on Soviet positions and armor in the distance
Map of the French coast and English Channel, highlighting major cities. German armored half-track and SP Flak on a Maultier half-track, camouflaged with foliage. German troops driving livestock along a dirt road. German army trucks barely visible under camoflage of tree branches and foliage. Allied fighter bombers attacking German positions and smoke rising from bombing. French civilians salvaging belongings and some leaving their war-torn village. View of destroyed and damaged buildings in the village and citizens working to clear debris. An injured person being carried on a stretcher by white-helmeted voluteers. A family leaving with their belongins piled into a horse-drawn wagon. Boys pulling a wagon with their belongings. Women pushing baby carriages as they leave their homes. A small group of French Colonial troops taken prisoner, being escorted under guard, along a dirt road. Large numbers of Allied prisoners of war (POWs), being marched through a French city, as local French people watch from sidewalks.
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