Animated map showing the Rhineland region in Germany, Strasbourg (Strassburg), the Ardennes, and Netherlands in World War II. Night scene of rockets being fired as the German Army launched a major offensive through the Ardennes, starting the Battle of the Bulge. German Army fire Nebelwerfer rockets at night. Rockets hit enemy targets. German officer signals the artillery to fire. A heavy gun barrel is seen recoiling as it fires. German artillery crew firing field pieces. German soldiers in trench watch Allied positions being shelled. German troops firing an anti-aircraft gun hidden under branches of foliage. German soldier with camouflaged helmet. Captured United States Army soldiers walking by the Siegfred Line. Dragons Teeth antitank barriers are seen in the background. German soldiers riding on Stug III Ausf. F tank destroyers and half tracked vehicle (Sd.Kfz.251) pass by on muddy road. The captured American prisoners of war are made to march with their hands over their heads. German soldiers carrying Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons while marching in mud up to their ankles. Others carry MG 42 machine guns and belt ammunition. American helmets scattered on the ground. Dead Allied soldiers after the surprise German attack in the Ardennes.
A large group of captured United States Army soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge, or the Battle of the Ardennes, in World War 2. As the prisoners march under watch by German soldiers, the camera focuses on captured African American soldiers who are prisoners of war. A smiling German soldier. The prisoners of war march through the forest. Weary faces of Black soldiers are juxtaposed with their smiling, laughing German SS guards. A German Panzer IV tank passes a muddy hillside road where many U.S. Army prisoners of war are seated on the ground in the background. A soldier rides a horse drawn wagon in front of another tank where a group of soldiers are seen standing on top. The captured Allied prisoners of war are herded toward the road below to their compound. A German soldier eats a chocolate candy bar. He nods his head enjoying his candy bar. German soldiers trying out captured American beer and cigarettes. A German soldier drinking a bottle of American beer. Some German SS soldiers wearing camouflaged uniforms, one of them carries a light M34 machine gun with a circular magazine on his shoulder. A dozen German soldiers are seen sitting atop a moving tank. A tank drives through a village. Crewmen on top of a moving Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault gun. One of the crewmen rides astride the gun barrel, while another mans the machine gun. Next is a a series of several German Panzer V ("Panther") tanks moving through the village. Clip contains many closeup views of faces of German soldiers and closeup views of faces of U.S. Army soldiers, including African American prisoners of war.
Long shot aerial view from a low-flying airplane shows airport in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Poland. View of many German Air Force planes, as well as various outbuildings. Narrator describes that after the German invasion of Poland during World War II, the Germans took over the airfield to use for their own military aircraft and operations. Bomb craters on ground from German bombing on September 1st, 1939. View from inside a hangar looking outward on destroyed aircraft debris. More shots of debris on the airfield. Several Polish aircraft are shown in various states of ruin. German soldier approaches a Polish biplane with gun damage to the skin of the fuselage.
Views of pilot loading bullets. Indicators of aircraft and pilot pulling triggers of aircraft Curtiss P-40C. P-40C on ramp firing six machine guns on the ground target. (World War II period).
U.S. Army Air Force Officers setting up a portable film laboratory besides aircraft C-45A. Aircraft B-26 dropping prints by parachute. Prints are developed in the mobile laboratory and then taken to Commanding Officer by jeep.
Flight made by inventor, Professor George De Bothezat. De Bothezat sitting at the controls of the helicopter. Helicopter rising short distant and descending. Many views of helicopter rising and descending. Men watching.
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