Liberated French returnees arrive to Paris, France after World War II. French soldiers and civilians in truck ride up to gates of an airfield to greet liberated Frenchmen. French flag flies from a pole. French officer shakes hands with liberated French soldiers.
U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bomber planes drop bombs over targets in Germany during World War II. Aerial view shows clusters of incendiaries fall over targets. Billows of smoke rise from bomb explosions. A group of B-26 Marauder bombers fly over country terrain. Smoke rises from explosions on ground. Bomb explosions throw billows of smoke up in air from German factory area.
U.S. Army air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes buzzing airfield in Germany during World War II. German road sign pock marked. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes in flight over airfield. German firefighters at work. Military Government Fire Department truck parked in the area.
The Battle of the Bulge in Ardennes Mountains region in the European Theater during World War II. U.S. troops retreat and lay barbed wire and land mines during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. U.S. Army Air Force bomber planes drop bombs. German prisoners of war march under guard.
Scenes from the Battle of the Bulge, and siege of Bastogne during World War Two. Large numbers of United States Army Air Force C-47B Skytrain transport planes drop parachute supplies for troops at Bastogne, Belgium. Ruins of the town of Bastogne. A street littered with dead bodies and rubble. U.S. troops advancing into the town of Haguenau on the border with Germany, and further into Germany, itself. American MPs (Military Police) search civilians and check identity cards and check U.S. soldiers in military vehicles to guard against Germans in American uniforms. U.S. M4 Sherman tanks move ahead on the front. Artillery being fired. Troops engage in street fighting. Group of Alsatian women rejoice as they are being released from a prison, where they had been held by Germans. U.S. troops advance through a wooded area. U.S. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes speaks about the sacrifices of U.S. troops who are fighting and dying for their country and appeals to Americans, safe at home, to work for the war effort.
Testing of U.S. buzz bombs at Dearborn, Michigan. U.S. buzz bombs, duplicates of German V-1 bombs, being produced and fuselage is assembled at Toledo, Ohio. Jet engines are assembled at Dearborn, Michigan. Raymond Blough and Henry Ford II watch the operations. A static test of jet engine of U.S. buzz bombs. Fly-bys of U.S. buzz bombs.
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