Operation Carpetbagger by the 492nd Bomb Group of United States 8th Air Force during World War II. View of automobile traffic on a London Street. London "Carpetbaggers" personnel working at the London headquarters of United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force. At Harrington field men load supplies on trucks for French resistance forces (Maquis, FFI). Men workout the daily packing schedule. Men pack guns, grenades, machine guns and other ammunitions. Special H containers and C containers for loading 303 ammunition. Boots, socks being packed. Gasoline Jerry cans being put in containers. Men place guns in containers. Instructions in French also placed with the supplies for the French resistance forces. Men pack explosives and radio sets. Medical supplies put in baskets. Harness and parachute shops in Holmes where men attach parachutes to containers. Packages being transported to airfield for dropping to the targets. A man on a telephone informs about the daily supplies to Special Forces headquarters in London. S-2, an intelligence officer forwards the list received from London. A man plots the target area on a map. In the weather room detailed map of the area is being prepared. Officers make a selection of the targets. S-2 informs the headquarters about the route of the planes. Supplies being loaded onto United States B-24 aircraft specially configured to carry and drop the containers using the bomb rack system in the aircraft. Flight crew is briefed before the operation. Chief Navigator talks about the course to be taken by the planes and the targets to be hit. Pilots work on a flight plan. Aircraft take off. An officer reports about the take off of the aircraft to the 8th Air Force headquarters.
United States 99th Infantry Division soldiers attempt to cross Danube in Neustadt, Germany during World War II. Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 395th Regiment of United States 99th Infantry Division rest behind the dikes. Soldiers talk and smile.
United States 99th Infantry Division soldiers attempt to cross Danube in Neustadt, Germany during World War II. Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 395th Regiment of United States 99th Infantry Division carry an assault boat as they move unopposed into the forest. Soldiers pinned down beside the assault boat in the woods to escape enemy attack. Crew fires a mortar. Medics carry a wounded soldier on litters. A soldier hurriedly digs foxhole beside an assault boat.
Liberation of Stalag 7A, German camp for Allied POWs, in Moosburg, Germany during World War II. Sign at front gate reads: "Kriegsgefangenen, Mannschafts Stammlager VIIA" A U.S. M4 Sherman tank sits at the front gate with several liberated prisoners around it. American flag flies from tall pole near camp entrance. Many liberated prisoners can be seen walking about in the central area of the camp. What appears to be a French tricolor flag flies over one of the barracks buildings.
Allied prisoner of war camp in Moosburg, Germany during World War II. Captured men stand across a barbed wire fence at the camp. Prisoners talk among themselves. Prisoners include Americans, French, British and Russians. Group of prisoners wave.
Allied prisoner of war camp in Moosburg, Germany during World War II. Allied prisoners at the camp. Men cook with homemade blower stove with tents in the background. A large group of American prisoners tease the baker as he bakes a cake.
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