U.S. troops huddle together on Sherman tanks late in World War 2 in Europe. U.S. Infantry and tanks moving across open fields. View from cottage window of American infantrymen swarming across a field. U.S. tanks and infantry entering outskirts of Cologne, Germany. One soldier plays a French horn, as he marches into town. Several German civilians walking together. German soldier POWs (prisoners of war) being herded under guard of American Army forces. German civilian refugees walking on a road. Graffiti scrawled on wall reads "Hitler ist Kaput". Numerous trucks filled with German prisoners of war. Civilians watching as U.S. Army M10 tank destroyers move into town towing 155mm long tom guns. Amusing graffiti by U.S. troops reads, "I'll walk Cologne" with arrow pointing (alluding to popular song, "I'll Walk Alone.") U.S. troops loading and firing 155 mm long tom guns. Civilians holding their ears, as they watch. U.S. troops entering center of Cologne, Germany. Towers of Cologne Cathedral visible in background. U.S. infantry firing from behind pile of rubble. Tanks rumble through streets of Cologne. House to house fighting. U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division tanks in streets of Cologne, and soldiers with small arms firing at buildings in clearing operations from building to building. A German soldier emerges from building with hands held up in surrender. Tank firing causes part of a building to collapse. Infantry moving along roadway with Cathedral visible in near background. City buildings of Cologne seen destroyed with rubble everywhere. German Mark V Panther tank is hit by fire from U.S. Army gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer in a M-26 series Pershing tank (a T26E3) with a 90mm gun, at position at the An den Dominikanern and Marzellenstraße crossroads. German Army soldiers jump from the Panther tank. The Panther Tank is hit again from the American Pershing tank, and goes up in flames and smoke. View from wreckage of the Cologne Cathedral. Bridge across the Rhein (Rhine) River. U.S. forces moving across the bridge. A sign posted on bridge pillar reading: "Cross the Rhine with dry feet, COURTESY OF 9TH ARMD DIV." View from vehicle crossing the bridge. U.S. medics treating casualties in wooded area.
Allied forces at Juelich during World War II in Germany. U.S. troops cross Roer (Rur) River in assault boats. Soldiers debark at bank. Signs "Expecting life - Finding death" and "Life is short -- War long" written on a wall at bank as a boat approaches. Ruins in Juelick. Wrecked buildings. Soldier sitting in hole in buiding wall playing a tuba. The arrowhead enclosed "T" of the U.S. Army 36th Infantry Division is clearly visible on his helmet. Soldiers on a hillside. Infantry walking through antitank obstacles at the Siegfried line.
U.S. troops liberate American prisoners of war at German camp during World War 2. Lieutenant Generals George Patton and Omar Bradley, together with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a U.S. Major General, walk through a liberated German concentration camp, followed by numerous other officers. The grounds are strewn with bodies of emaciated dead prisoners. Some are stacked up like cordwood. Some dead are carried off. Survivors are given medical attention and placed in ambulances or trucks. German civilians plundering shops and warehouses, and carrying off goods on carts.German women fighting over goods. Old man sleeping in street.
United States soldiers prepare for World War II war crime trial in Nuremberg, Germany. "Soldiers' Field" written on the building in Nuremberg stadium. A huge vacant ground in front of the building. Soldiers in front of the building. Two United States soldiers stand on the building, give Nazi salute and pose for picture at spot where Hitler made his speeches.
United States Army soldiers stand guard while work crews of German soldiers clear piles of rubble from devastated Nuremberg Germany, soon after the end of World War II. Ruins of many buildings in Nuremberg followed airstrikes and street fighting. POW German soldiers sort and clear piles of wreckage of buildings. German citizens seen moving through narrow, rubble covered streets with debris piled high on either side of narrow corridors. Sweeping views of bomb damaged buildings of Nuremberg seen from various elevated views.
A chained monkey sits on ground during Madri Gras at Camp New Orleans, Paris, France. He holds a mirror and looks in to it. He turns around.
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