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Liberated United States airmen prisoners at Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Germany (WW2)

Liberated United States prisoners (mostly military airmen) at POW camp called Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager (Stalag) VII A, located just North of Moosburg, Germany during World War II. The airmen cook food. Several are seen sunning themselves. Airmen seen shaving, shining shoes and cleaning clothes. A group of airmen around sign 'I Wanted Wings' and 'Luft 3'. These are some of the prisoners who were originally held at Stalag Luft III, in German Province of Lower Silesia, near the town of Sagan (now in Poland). (Note: Stalag Luft III is famous because the "Great Escape" took place there in March, 1944. Prisoners were forced to march from Sagan to Spremburg during the coldest winter in Germany in 50 years. There, they boarded a train of boxcars for a 3 day trip to Moosburg in January 1945, because the Russians were closing in. The addition of these prisoners to Stalag 7A, at Moosburg, led to serious overcrowding of the camp. On May 1, 1945, the New York Times reported that "The Fourteenth Armored Division liberated 110,000 Allied prisoners of war at Stalag 7A at Moosburg." This corrected an earlier report that 27,000 prisoners had been liberated.)

Date: 1945, April 29
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040694
German Civilians wrap dead bodies in shrouds and place them in individual graves during a mass burial in Gardelegen, Germany.

A mass burial in Gardelegen, Germany during World War II, for victims of the Gardelegen massacre. German civilians wrap dead bodies in shrouds and place them in individual graves. They pour dirt in the graves with shovels. Burned barn building in background.. They are burying concentration camp and slave laborer victims of nazi atrocities who died after being locked in the barn that was then set on fire, in Gardelegen, Germany, on April 13, 1945. The atrocity was discovered by the U.S. Army 102nd Infantry Division on April 14, which directed the German civilians to properly bury the victims from April 21-25, 1945.

Date: 1945, April 22
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073349
U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz presenting awards to officers and sailors aboard USS Bowfin in Guam, during World War II

United States Navy Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287) in Apra Harbor, Guam, during World War 2. He is there to decorate the Captain and crew of the boat. Admiral Nimitz is seen at a microphone, addressing officers and sailors. Cameramen taking the photographs of the event. Navy band playing in the background. Admiral Nimitz presents the Navy Cross to Commander Alexander Kelly Tyree, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Bowfin (SS-287), on the Seventh War Patrol of that submarine during the period 25 January 1945 to 25 March 1945. Admiral Nimitz then proceeds to decorate more officers and sailors from the crew. Nimitz returns to the microphone, reads a citation, and decorates several more crew members. He and other officers hold long hand salutes as the ceremony is concluding. Admiral Nimitz then announces the end of the ceremony and walks away. Camera focuses on a sailor with medal pinned on his shirt.

Date: 1945, May 27
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075994
Liuchow recaptured from the Japanese forces, and Chinese 169th Division troops in flag raising ceremony in Liuchow, China.

Chinese troops recapturing Liuchow, China. Liuchow, the former U.S. 14th Air Force Base and largest communication center in South Central China, in ruins after the withdrawal of Japanese forces. The burnt buildings on the streets in Liuchow. The ruins of buildings along the sides of the road. Chinese troops walk along the road. The Chinese troops recapture Liuchow on 13th June 1945. The civilians in China cheering and welcoming the soldiers to the town. The Liuchow Air Base, which was not usable since the Japanese forces had dug holes in places. The entire stretch of the airstrip being blocked with gas drums. The center stretch of the airstrip being damaged. An Air Force engineer examines the heavily mined air strip. Men of Chinese 169th Division assemble for the flag raising ceremony on 2nd July 1945. The troops are welcomed by a citizens' committee. The Chinese 169th Division Major General addresses the men. The Chinese flag hoisted. The troops salute the flag. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, June 13
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054935
American Army troops entering area of Dachau Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany, near end of World War II

U.S. troops of the 45th Division, 157th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, I Company, entering the area of Dachau concentration camp, in the final days of World War 2. They are seen escorting German prisoners of war, with their hands raised, along a railroad siding. U.S. troops in front of a railroad train of boxcars. A dead German soldier, face down on the ground. The U.S. troops follow the railroad track into area of buildings, and run to take cover due to incoming fire. One fires a browning automatic rifle from an elevated walkway. Other American soldiers hunker down behind the walkway wall. U.S. Army soldier fires rifle while standing on a roadway. Surrendering German soldier, carrying a white flag, is attacked by a concentration camp inmate, as several other liberated inmates and U.S. Army soldiers stand nearby, watching. (Note: Opening cameraman slate states date as 04-27-1945, but historical records indicate this took place on 04-29-1945.)

Date: 1945, April 29
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055237
Two soldiers arrest suspected Nazis and a woman takes firewood out of debris in Germany during World War II.

Activities of civilians in Germany during World War II. Two U.S. Army soldiers arrest two suspected Nazis. They stand and interact at the entrance gate of a building that is under guard by American forces. Scene changes to a bomb damaged Atlas relief carving on a destroyed building. Next scene is a wide view of a totally destroyed area from bombing, with the same portion of broken wall with the Atlas carving seen at center. A German woman walks through rubble and debris from bombing, carrying two stacks of broken wooden timber pieces for firewood. (Location is possibly Nuremberg. Despite film slate stating 2-24-1945, these shots appear to be more likely April or May 1945.)

Date: 1945, February 24
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056166