Wreckage of an aircraft at El Aouina Airport in Tunisia during World War II. A man holding a piece of plexiglas in his hand. A wrecked 3-motored Italian Camo 6 - Savoia-Marchetti SM 81 Pipistrello aircraft on an airfield at the airport. '601-5' written on the aircraft. A captured German Volkswagen type 82 Kübelwagen drives up beside the wrecked aircraft. A few U.S. officers get out and inspect the aircraft. View of wrecked German and Italian aircraft on the airfield. A USAAF 97th Bomb Group, 340th Bomb Squadron, B-17F 42-5402: B-17F-50-BO Flying Fortress taking off from the airfield. Abbreviated tail number '25402' seen on tail. Several wrecked aircraft on the airfield. Another B-17 aircraft takes off, displaying a large shield image on its tail This is followed by a U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell taking off. The wreckage of aircraft spread on the airfield. A few U.S. soldiers walking into a deep bomb crater and inspect the nacelle and the motor of the aircraft. Two soldiers beside another wrecked Italian Camo 6 - Savoia-Marchetti SM 81 Pipistrello aircraft. The aircraft is painted in camouflage paint and bears the number 605-7. One of the soldiers looking into the fuselage of the aircraft. A wrecked German aircraft on the airfield. The aircraft damaged completely. View of parts of the wrecked aircraft.
Victory Day parade in Tunis, Tunisia during World War II. Troops of Allied nations march during the parade. Robed British and French troops marching in the parade. A crowd gathered on the side of the road. A few United States Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bombers in formation flight above the parade ground. An army band moving in the parade. American soldiers march during the parade. Troops marching across a reviewing stand. American, French and British flags hoisted on poles on the reviewing stand. Several fighter aircraft in formation flight. Soldiers holding guns march with the officers leading the parade.
A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. An aircraft flying low over a field leaving a thick gas obstacle course. Landing crafts arriving on a beach carrying troops. Troops on tanks during a training. A sign board reads 'C.W. (Chemical Warfare) School, Gas Obstacle Course'. A pictorial map showing the course in a woody terrain. The map shows six stations along the terrain. Each station gives trainees a specific gas combat situation. The trainees at a decontamination building where they are given protective clothing, coveralls, boots and gloves. The trainees wearing the protective clothing. Two men preparing nitrostarch explosives and other explosives and fireworks to simulate enemy fire. The trainees divided into squads. The trainee squads moving in columns. A board reads 'Station No.1, Attack thru Smoke'. The trainees advancing into the woody terrain. A man from a control tower signals and an instructor blows a whistle alerting the squad. The first mine is exploded and the squad advances on the terrain. The squad advancing among trees to a wire fenced entangle. Simulated enemy fire from bombs, fire crackers and rockets explosions. The squad advancing among the trees. The trainees moving in a trench. Simulated enemy lays down a huge envelope of smoke blown from smoke generator jets. Clouds of smoke spreading over the area. Igniting HC smoke pads and white phosphorous land mines are released adding to the density of the clouds. CN grenades are tossed by the instructor into the smoke to teach lesson that smoke masks a gas attack. Smoke in the air in the wooded terrain. The members of the squad put on masks to avoid further attacks. The squad moving through the smoke. The barbed wire entangle in view. The squad moves under a wire fence and proceed to station no.2. (World War II period).
A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. A trainee squad at Station No.3 in a woody terrain during the gas obstacle course. An instructor and trainees standing beside a canoe near trees. The instructor tells the members of the squad to identify duds (unexploded ordnance) since the enemy used some agents of an unknown type in shells. The members of the squad walk through the woody terrain trying to identify duds. One of the trainees identifies a shell in a dug. The trainee jotting down notes. One of the officers sprays CND from a chemical cylinder into the air. The trainees in the terrain identify all the dugs. (World War II period).
The Russian Campaign of World War II. German soldiers with guns in Soviet Union. Troops on motorcycles and trucks moving on a path. Soldiers beside artillery on a field. The soldiers firing the artillery. Horse drawn artillery and troops moving on a path between the fields. German soldiers firing artillery in the field. Smoke rising from shelled positions. Houses in view. A German tank and a few soldiers beside it. A house and a vehicle near it in the background. The troops on motorcycles beside the tank. Explosions occurring at a distance. Soldiers standing between stumps of trees. The soldiers advancing on a field. A damaged building in the background. Smoke rising from areas in the far background. Debris scattered on the ground and a tank on a path beside the debris. Thick clouds of smoke rising from bombed areas in the background. Several German tanks with troops moving on a path. Smoke filled air in the background.
Operation Barbarossa. The German campaign against Russia during World War II. A map showing positions of Witebsk, Ulla, Ostrow, Pleskau, See, Peipus, Petersburg in the Soviet Union. Several horses grazing in a field. A German soldier resting on a grassy ground with his face covered with a cap. A German soldier seated on a horse cart writing a note. A note pad kept on the back of the horse. Two German soldiers seated in the back of a truck above baggage. German soldiers walking in columns on a path. Trucks, artillery, tanks of 7.Pz.Div. and infantry moving on a path between fields. Several huts in the background. German soldiers beside artillery on a field. A soldier fires artillery. Smoke rising from explosions in shelled areas. A building on fire in the background. Soldiers firing antitank guns on the field. Thick smoke rising from shelled positions. The soldiers advancing and firing machine guns. A soldier lying in a trench firing a gun. A wire fence in view. Soldiers on the top of a hut viewing through binoculars. Soldiers on a truck moving beside the huts. Damaged houses in view. Soldiers among debris spread beside the houses. A building in flames in the background. Smoke rising into the air. Two soldiers carrying a wounded German soldier on a stretcher. The soldiers bandaging the leg of the wounded soldier.
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