The capture of Avranches, France by U.S. soldiers during Operation Cobra in World War II. The map of Avranches, France superimposed on scenes depicting United States military vehicles moving in Normandy. Half track passes by a road sign “N 137 St. Servan 12 St. Malo 13”. A speeding truck passes by a road sign “Rennes N 137 St Malo”. A large artillery is being pulled by a military vehicle on the N 137 highway in Normandy. Bomber drops bomb over a village in France. View of a map showing “Mortain”. United States infantry engage in street fighting in Mortain, France. A United States soldier fires with rifle upwards during street fighting. A soldier fires bazooka during street fighting. A Churchill Mk VII Crocodile flame thrower tank fires at a house and tree. American soldiers running through burning field during a flame thrower tank attack. Multiple rocket launcher trucks fire rocket artillery. United States soldiers observe rocket artillery on the side of a forest. Map depicts “Argentan” and “Falaise”. Captured German prisoners march away through a destroyed French town. French people welcome United States troops in Paris. Map depicts the Seine River and Paris. Crowds of French men and women giving the “V-Sign” in Paris. French woman clapping her hands. French women crowd a Jeep with U.S. soldiers. Soldiers marching on the Avenue de Champs-Élysées, with the Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) behind. Free France General Jacques Philippe Leclerc and an American general salute in the Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France). Crowds of Frenchmen cheer and welcome Allied forces after liberation from Nazi Germany. A French man waves his flag while he holds on to tree branches. Map depicting the eastern France, Luxembourg and western Germany superimposed over scenes of marching soldiers. Television host Alexander Scourby delivers a conclusion. Closing credits.
German troops lead away captured U.S. soldier prisoners of war (POW) in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in World War 2. German Wehrmacht troops walk on a damaged street. Captured U.S. soldiers marching under German guard. A German soldier writes “Aus der Traum” (“From the dream” in English) on the base of an artillery gun. More camouflaged Wehrmacht trucks driving through muddy roads. German troops ride a vehicle pulling an artillery. Wehrmacht soldiers on top of a half-track. Snow falling and covering Panzer tanks. A Panzergrenadier infantry holding a Panzerfaust over his shoulder. A German Panzer tank moving. Snow covers forest.
State Department Foreign Service officer Boris Hansen Klosson narrates United States propaganda film during the Cold War. A cartoon depicts stacked coins. Stack coins on a man’s bedside are depleted as a man sleeps. Man wakes up and finds his coins depleted. Communist police take men and women away from their apartments to send them to the countryside for state projects. A diagram depicts the political stakeholders and institutions of a country. Professionals working in communist countries are controlled by the state. A doctor chained to a Communist ball and chain treats a patient. The background changed from a clinic to a prison cell. A lawyer chained to a Communist ball speaks to judges during a court hearing. A writer uses a typewriter with paper filled with communist symbols. A ballet dancer with a communist symbol-shaped shadow. A composer plays with a musical piece with communist symbols. A painter paints the communist symbol. A nude model poses in a similar fashion. An intimidated worker is being watched over by a communist officer inside a factory. A couple have dinner inside an overcrowded apartment. Communist citizens lining up outside a state store. (Film is example of Anti-communist or so called Red menace propaganda)
United States infantry soldiers sit on top of M4 Sherman tanks driving through Schillingen, Germany during World War II. Tanks pass by destroyed houses. A column of German prisoners is seen walking past, some of carrying a wounded comrade on stretcher. Streets of shell torn town are jammed with tanks and American soldiers. Soldiers board tanks. A soldier sits on top of an M4 Sherman tank.
General George Patton’s Third Army mobilize to rescue trapped Ninth and Tenth Armored Division and 101st Airborne in Bastogne, Belgium during World War II. A house in flames at Sibret, near Bastogne. Sign reads “Sibret” in front of the burning house. Soldiers and vehicles move in the snowy field and roads. Explosion and fire on the hill. A damaged and abandoned M3 half-track on fire. Soldiers in dugouts in hillside wait for supplies. A fleet of transport planes fly over Bastogne. Allied transport planes drop 1500 tons of supplies for the besieged troops in Bastogne. Supply boxes are dropped with parachutes. Artillery crew firing a M101 105 mm Howitzer under a canopy. A soldier walks away from a German tank on fire. Heavy smoke rises from a burning tank. A United States soldier escorts captured German prisoners (POW) away. The aftermath of the Siege of Bastogne. Bombed damaged buildings and debris scattered on the streets of Bastogne. A damaged M3 half-track is left on the street. Soldiers inspect smashed Jeeps and military equipment. Bodies of dead casualties are covered with cloth.
Warsaw is liberated by Soviet troops during World War II. Soviet artillery fire victory salvo to celebrate the liberation of Warsaw in Moscow at night. Aerial view of Warsaw, Poland after its liberation. Smoke rises from destroyed buildings and structures. Shows Hitler and German troops in Poland in 1939 and the final surrender to Germany. Stalin and Russian generals. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and his generals in Warsaw during its 1939 siege. Warsaw sign in Polish stands in front of Hitler and his group. German infantry troops firing in prone position. Buildings engulfed in flames as Warsaw held out for 18 days. Civilian refugees panic on the street. Polish garrison, commanded under General Walerian Czuma, officially capitulated to the Germans. German General der Infanterie Johannes Blaskowitz and Generalmajor Bruno Bieler in a meeting inside a bus for signing of surrender. Polish colonel Aleksander Praglowski seen at window of bus during signing. Polish women watch as captured Polish Army soldiers are led to captivity. Polish prisoners of war (POW) gather on a field. The Red Army fight German Wehrmacht troops in Russia. Red Army tank move across the battlefield. Pillars of smoke rises far from the tanks. Howitzers and Katyusha rocket launcher firing at night. Soviet tanks on fire. Rear view of soldiers advancing in smoky battlefield. Scenes of devastation and rubble of bombed buildings in Warsaw after its liberation by Soviet forces. Polish civilians in bombed streets, some holding newspapers. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov uses a compass on a map. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky of the 2nd Belorussian Front talks to military officers. Marshal Ivan Konev of the 1st Ukrainian Front smokes a long cigarette. View of the Kremlin. Josef Stalin smiles in the Kremlin.
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