Japanese enemy bombs hit the USS Franklin (CV-13), aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. Explosions aboard USS Franklin. USS Hickox rescues personnel. Litter case is transferred from the carrier to USS Hickox (DD-673). Other U.S. Navy sailors jump from fantail of carrier to a waiting ship. Two sailors land in water and are rescued. (World War II period).
German prisoners taken by U.S. Army in burning town of Gemunden, Germany, during World War 2. German prisoners cross bridge passing M-4 tanks. Burning town in the background. Brigadier General Albert C Smith, CG, 14th Armored Division, XV Corps, Seventh U.S. Army. General stands at end of bridge and watches German prisoners of war with hands over their heads, being escorted under guard. . He converses with member of his staff. M-4 tanks, U.S. half tracks and ambulances speed through streets. Houses in the background are in flames.
U.S. soldiers fight fires in burning town of Gemunden, Germany. German civilians walk along road past burning buildings. Dead German soldier in the foreground. Views of burning town and ruins. Jeeps and tanks pass through the town. Trucks drive down on road. Civilians standing either side of road. Civilians salvage belongings from burning buildings. U.S. soldiers fight fires in town by stringing fire hose. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers fight fires in burning town of Gemunden, Germany. Civilians run with buckets. They fill buckets with water and carry them towards burning building. Burning building in the background. U.S. soldiers fight fires in town by stringing fire hose. A tank standing on road. (World War II period).
U.S. Army soldiers and tanks fire in Gemunden, Germany. U.S. soldiers with rifles, move through streets of town. Smoke rising and ruins. Convoy of vehicles in outskirts of town near wounded area. A tank opens fire at snipers in woods. Soldier atop truck fires rifle. (World War II period).
Freed Allied prisoners of war at OFLAG XIII-B, known as Camp Hammelburg, outside of Gemünden, Germany during World War II. A group of United States, Czech, Russian, Yugoslav prisoners of war standing together along with the liberating 14th U.S. Armored Division soldiers. Two prisoners talk to each other. The prisoners cheering, waving and laughing. Two prisoners walk down the road smiling; one waving a copy of Yank Magazine, the other a chunk of bread. U.S. Amry M-4 tank crashes through barbed wire fence of Camp Hammelburg. A group of freed prisoners gathers. Several prisoners stand and pose. Mass gathering of elated former prisoners. Freed prisoners of war dash toward U.S. soldiers and embrace them. (Note: This was the conclusion of the originally failed "Operation Hammelburg", initially attempted by "Task Force Baum," under Captain Abraham Baum, ten days prior. Inmates at the camp included the recently injured and captured Captain Baum, and Lieutenant Colonel John K. Waters, son in law of U.S. Army General George Patton. LTC John Waters was injured during the initial rescue attempt 10 days prior and was hospitalized and not seen in this film.)
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