Street fighting between U.S. soldiers and prisoners in Koblenz, Germany during World War II. The soldiers walk on the streets. Damaged buildings on either side of the streets. Two soldiers standing in a rubble filled street fire rifles. A patrol enters a damaged police headquarter building. The soldiers fire rifles through a window.
United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft strafe a town in Germany during World War II. Troops loaded in jeeps move. A tank moves across a field. Mountains in the background. P-47s Thunderbolt fighter aircraft in flight over a field. A burning town. A fighter aircraft bombs a town over a ridge. Bombs strike. P-47 fighter aircraft strafe the town. German prisoners of war.
German soldiers climbing over a crash-landed B-17 bomber of the USAAF 96th Bomb Group, 337th Bomb Squadron, with tail number 42-3353. Its props are all bent and skin is peeled off its rudder and horizontal stabilizer. (This aircraft, named "Tar Fly," was hit by flak on September 9, 1943, and crash-landed west of Evreux, at Beamont-Le Roger, France. Two crew were killed and 8 taken as prisoners of war.) Smoking wreckage of an Allied aircraft in a field with two dead fliers lying on the ground about 50 yards away. Engines of a downed U.S. aircraft. Numerous views of wrecked American and British airplanes. Sign painted on one piece of wreckage reads: "When I go sightseeing in Tokyo, Tojo's gonna be my Ricksha Boy!" Piles of scrap alumunum from crashed airplanes piled up at a railroad siding, where German workers load it into rail freight cars. German army workers using tools to dismantle parts. Sequence shifts to a Messerschmitt Bf 109 that lands in a field. German airmen run to greet the pilot, who steps from the cockpit and describes some aerial maneuvers to a surrounding audience. Next, German ace, Adolf Galland is seen discussing tactics with other pilots. Several camouflaged Me Bf-109s lined up on a grass field, where ground crews are repairing and maintaining them. Closeups of German pilots climbing into cockpits of planes. Ground crews hand crank their starters. Next sequence shows Focke-Wulf FW-190 aircraft taxiing and then making a formation takeoff from grass field. Then an Me-Bf-109 is shown right after takeoff. FW-190s and Me-109s buzz the field. (World War II period)
British soldiers fight the German Army to liberate the city of Hertogenbosch in Holland from Nazi occupation during World War II. British soldiers advance into outskirts of burning city with several homes on fire. They help extinguishing fire and rescue an old woman. British Churchill tanks advance in fields firing at Germans. British soldiers walk with captured German soldier prisoner of war near an armored vehicle. Houses set afire by Germans. British soldiers crawl in a trench and walk towards a house and drop down as an attack is launched on them. A wrecked German StuG III assault gun near the house with the corpse of its driver in it.
Allied forces raid the coast of Normandy in France on the D-Day invasion, during World War II. German soldiers arrested by the Allied soldiers. Allied tanks move on roads of a freed town. The prisoners walk lined up on beach. Supreme Allied Commanders General Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley and General Montgomery aboard a warship smile at the success of D-Day Invasion. Soldiers descend from landing boats and reach the beaches of Normandy. Allied infantrymen march inwards from the beach. War bonds appeal people to join the Allied forces.
Corpses of Jewish inmates spread all over a large ground at a Nazi concentration camp in Landsberg, Germany after World War II. Survivor inmates walk near them. Tortured and starved dead bodies of the victims of Nazi atrocities. German prisoners dig mass graves and recover a number of dead bodies.
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