Action on the Russian Front by German soldiers in Russia during World War II. Map of Russia. German soldiers in trenches as they move up. German transport aircraft, the Junkers JU-52 drops supplies. Men carry supplies. Germans unpack meat.
Action on the Russian Front by German soldiers in Russia during World War II. German Sdkfz.250 halftrack passes through mud and infantry marches. Sdkfz.4 halftrack prepares for action. Germans in zig-zag trench and a radio post. German soldiers talk. A soldier smokes a pipe in a trench. Germans fire 150mm howitzer. Shells bursting and rockets being fired. Smoke rises from explosions. Soldiers watch through binoculars. Rare German 8.8 cm PaK 43 being fired. German Pz.III Befehls tanks and Ferdinand tank destroyers, also called Elefant tank destroyers, Panzerjäger Tiger (P) Sd.Kfz. 184, move across an open field. Knocked-out Russian KV tank and a gun. Wounded being aided in a medical center.
German Messerschmitt Bf 109 taxis past camera as formation of Dornier Do-17 bombers takes off. The bombers underway in formation. Complete change of scene shows German gun camera view of an American B-17 being shot to pieces in a head-on attack. A formation of USAAF B-17s being attacked by German fighters. One B-17, alone, in trouble, is fired upon while descending. View of German DO-17s in formation. German gun camera film of American B-17 being attacked from ahead and below. Pieces of the B-17 falling away
German forces operating in Russia during World War II. Film opens with map showing Northern sector of Eastern Front, highlighting city of Luga, the Luga river, Nowgorad (Novgorad) , the Woldhow river (Volkhov River), Schlosselburg (Shlisselburg), the Ladoga-see (Lake Ladoga), and Leningrad. Next, German forces in army trucks and some in horse-drawn wagons, are seen taking up new positions (retreating) in a snowy landscape, during World War 2. They move through a town, and are seen using vehicles to drag aerial and other bombs into position on a bridge , for use as demolitions to make pursuit by Russian forces more difficult. The bridges are destroyed as the last German troops pass over them. View of fires raging in wake of retreating German forces. Closeup of German Army engineers setting charges and detonating them, creating a large explosion. Numerous explosions as demolitions continue in the midst of burning areas. Closeup of a German soldier in a white helmet, smoking a pipe. Others are seen sharing sandwiches and bottled drinks. One passes a bottle to a soldier wearing the Iron Cross First Class medal. German soldiers dig new foxholes and defenses in the snow. Close front view of a German Panzer IV tank and others moving along a road in the distance. German forces exchanging fire with Soviet forces. Artillery shells bursting along the battle front.
Germans in Ukraine during World War II. Map of Ukraine shows Kirovograd. German artillery being fired. German tanks advancing. German grenadier troops advance. German officers watch through binoculars. View of shortwave antenna and radio operator. Closeup of German rocket artillery. Rockets being fired as German soldier manipulates firing mechanism. German soldier in deep square fox hole trench firing artillery remotely. Tanks seen in ditches as prisoners are marched away.
Aerial view of many USAAF Troop Carrier Command C-47 aircraft,together with gliders, parked on a field in England. The aircraft and gliders are all painted in D-Day stripes. Views on ground of C-47s taking off towing gliders behind. Formation of C-47s and gliders overhead. Views from an aircraft in a formation. Below, the Portland Bill lighthouse & directional beacon (code-named Flatbush) is seen as the formation departs the English coast. (Note: film view of Portland Bill light is reversed. Roundabout should appear to right of the lighthouse.) Closeup of a glider in the formation. View from a ship, in the English Channel, as an airplane crashes and explodes on the French coast. Aerial view of landing craft on the Normandy beach, as the formation passes overhead. View of French fields flooded by the Germans. Aerial view of parachutes from U.S. Army paratroopers who had dropped into France the night before (June 5th), but no sign of the troops themselves. Masses of gliders on the ground. View inside a glider as it cuts loose from its C-47 tow plane. View from ground as gliders cut loose and maneuver for landing. View of a glider that crashed into a German Headquarters building, and view of another landing in water. Allied gliders destroyed (some burning) and damaged by German gunfire and passive defenses (15 foot poles planted closely in landing zones). A German artillery piece concealed at the edge of a landing zone. American troops, from the gliders, marching into Saint Marcouf, France. Montage of Allied advances and gunfire. Road sign pointing to Sainte Marie-du Mont and Carentan. U.S. troops moving through French town of Sainte Marie-du Monte. U.S. troops riding in a captured German Ketenkrad tracked motorcycle.
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