German prisoners in Paris after liberation of Paris in World War 2. A man looks at a pile of weapons and equipment confiscated from captured German prisoners. Men walking out of a gate. A forlorn German prisoner leans his head on his hand. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) fighters guard and lead German prisoners into the street. FFI fighters play with a defaced portrait of Adolf Hitler. An FFI fighter spins the portrait of Adolf Hitler stuck on the barrel of an M4 Sherman tank machine gun. FFI fighters display the Nazi flag behind the Hitler portrait as men aim their guns at the portrait.
A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber takes off from the airfield during 15th Air Force Operation Reunion (Operation Gunn,) to rescue Allied prisoners of war in Romania during World War II. . Men carry an injured airman on a stretcher to a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. The men go under the bomber. Men raise the stretcher up the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber’s bomb bay door. Injured POWs on stretchers are taken inside the evacuation aircraft through the bomb bay door. Prisoners of war assist each other in boarding the aircraft. POWs form a line as they board the aircraft one by one. Some prisoners of war board the aircraft through the belly. A POW (who lost a leg) board the bomber. A prisoner of war smiling before he boards the evacuation bomber. Bomber starts engines. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber taking off from Popesti Airfield.
United States 30th Infantry Division troops marching on both sides of a snowy road during World War II. A soldier walks in deep snow outside Malmedy, Belgium. United States troops dig up bodies of Malmedy Massacre victims (also known as Baugnez Massacre) at the crossroads of Baugnez. Bodies of the 84 American prisoners of war (POWs) killed by Kampfgruppe Peiper soldiers are lying in the snow after being dug up. Captured German prisoners of war raise their hands. The prisoners of war are led away from the gravesite. German prisoners watch as bodies of Americans are dug up from frozen grave. A dead body of a Malmedy massacre victim. A soldier uses a camera to record the exhumation. Faces of captured German troops as they raise their hands. Contrails of a bomber squadron in sky.
United States 101st Airborne Division paratrooper in a field outside the town of St. Marcouf on D-Day in World War II. Soldiers drawing sniper fire. Paratroopers rounding up and interrogate German prisoner of war. An injured German prisoner of war speaks to the paratroopers. A pile of helmets and equipment confiscated from German prisoners. A German prisoner talks while raising both his hands. Paratroopers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment in St. Marcouf. A heart-shaped symbol stenciled on a paratrooper’s helmet. A paratrooper chewing. Paratroopers look out for snipers during a mop up operation. They inspect the cemetery. U.S. troopers are seen riding captured German Panzer I Ausf.A Sd.Ktz.101 light tanks. One is pulling a field piece trooper riding on the barrel. 82nd Airborne Division soldiers walk past a sign 'St. Marcouf'. A soldier walks past a statue of the Virgin Mary. French civilians provide paratroopers information on German movements. One of the paratroopers smoke a cigarette behind a French civilian. A paratrooper speaks with French children. Paratroopers resting on the side of the road. Airborne and seaborne units make contact. A German tracked motorcycle parked on pavement, surrounded by 101st Airborne Paratroopers. 101st Airborne Paratroopers smile and hold a captured Nazi flag.
Technicians working at the serology unit of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) laboratory. A technician collects blood sample from a shirt belonging to a suspect. The examiner drops benzidine reagent and dilute hydrogen peroxide into the blood sample in cotton swab. The blood sample turns blue. The examiner writes down notes and cuts a sample from the shirt for microchemical hemoglobin test. He places the sample on the microscope slide. The examiner applies a reagent on the sample in the microscope slide. The slide is warmed before being placed under a microscope. The examiner uses the microscope. Red crystals indicating the presence of hemoglobin found under a microscope. The examiner runs test for origin and blood group of the sample. The examiner also gathers samples from the unstained part of the cloth. The samples are placed on test tubes which are placed on a rack. The examiner marks the locations where the samples were taken in the clothing. The examiner writes notes on his worksheet. Blood serums are added to the samples. The rack containing samples are placed inside a refrigerator overnight. The examiner brings out a vial containing liquid blood sample from the same refrigerator. The liquid blood sample is centrifuged, and samples are gathered for a liquid blood grouping slide. Testing solutions are added to the samples. The slide is agitated to expedite the grouping reaction. The examiner reads the slide through a microscope. The examiner brings out vials of samples from blood-stained fabric gathered the day before. The test tubes are placed on the centrifuged machine. Blood samples on vials are placed in small rack. The examiner determines blood sample to be of human origin. Centrifuged grouping samples are placed in grouping slides to determine blood type. Examiner reads samples microscopically. A technician fills out a worksheet. Law enforcement officers read a laboratory report from the FBI.
American columns cross the Seine in France during World War 2. Soldiers in boats reach the shore. Civilians stand by the river. General George S Patton's armored division crosses the river on pontoon bridges. The U.S. troops advance towards Paris. Smoke arises due to explosion. Tanks and soldiers firing machine guns beneath the Eiffel tower. The tanks move past the Eiffel Tower. Civilians crouch on the ground. Tanks on the streets. Nazi prisoners marched on the street. Tanks and soldiers fire at Nazis in the German Headquarters at Chamber of Deputies. French soldiers fight German snipers from the streets. A man closes shop and escapes. Allied soldier leads a Nazi waving a white surrender flag across the street. Large group of surrendered German soldiers gathered as prisoners of war on August 25. Traffic around Arc De Triomphe. The French flag raised on a building. The 2nd Armored Division of the Free French Army of Liberation, under French General Philippe Leclerc, parade on Paris streets on August 26. Large crowd gathers to welcome them home. Nazi prisoners march in the streets flanked by Allied soldiers. General Leclerc and his men on tanks. Girls kiss the soldiers. American, British, and French soldiers drinking from wine bottles and celebrating with the crowd.
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