German forces smash into the U.S. First Army positions along a 45-mile front and advance deep into Luxemburg and Belgium, in Battle of the Bulge during World War II. Animated maps show Germany, France, and Belgium. German Tiger tanks, troops, and artillery in action against Americans. Vehicles of United States convoy wrecked and burning along road, as German troops advance past the burning vehicles. Fire and smoke rise from U.S. tanks, Jeeps, and trucks. Germans firing and bombing. U.S. soldiers captured. Frozen dead bodies of U.S. soldiers, victims of the Malmedy massacre, some with hands and feet tied, being placed army truck. Dead bodies of Belgian civilians being placed in large common grave. View of German officer ordering a firing squad to shoot. German troops smoke American cigarettes taken from dead U.S. troops. American troops in retreat and burning and destroying war materiel that could not be brought with them. American defenders firing artillery, including antiaircraft guns fired level, as antitank weapons. Skies streaked with contrails and dog fights between American and German airplanes. American aircraft bombing German positions after weather clears. American troops patrol in snow covered wooded areas. General Eisenhower talks with soldiers. German soldiers advancing. Newspaper headline reads: "Russians Smash Last Nazi Line." Another newspaper headline reads: "40 Jap Ships Sunk." Another reads: "3rd Army Deep in Germany." Narrator cautions against complacency, reminding of 78 thousand American soldiers lost during the Christmas holiday, in 1944. Views of dead American soldiers. Narrator offers closing public service war propaganda message: "If you have a War Job, Stick to it" and " If you Haven't, Get one!"
German Pz.III, Panther and Tiger tanks firing and Stuka-zu-Fuss rockets firing at Russian positions on Eastern Front, during World War II. Burning vehicle. Panther G of 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Jugend) fires on Canadian positions in mid-June 1944, in Normandy. Empty shells.thrown out of tank by German crewman. Scenes of smoke and fire.
German troops fell trees at the Russian Front during World War II. Wood is being processed into lumber. Cylindrical shaped tent is built by framing round wooden arches with trap doors and wooden logs. Tent is carried to German post by horse carriages. Tents barricaded beneath the ground with their chimneys protruding out of the surface. Shows smoke coming out of the tent's chimney.1944.
Eastern Front battle of Soviet army as it repels the German Wehrmacht from a Soviet city, and captures German POW's. The German prisoners are marched into Soviet camps in winter snow covered landscape under guard of Russian Army soldiers. Aerial view of massive invasion force in English Channel on D-Day for the the Invasion of Normandy. View from landing craft of American infantry going ashore. Allied soldiers taking fire from German enemy during D-Day beach landings. Allied armies moving inland through France seen in combat with Germans in French villages and towns. Many German prisoners rounded-up and seen marching toward prison camps under British and U.S. Army guard.
German troops on Eastern Front. Soldiers in various types of armored cars and jeeps on patrol. Patrols meet Panther tanks. German 3SS Kubelwagen armored vehicle. Officers confer in groups. A soldier observes through binoculars. Soldiers walk on corn field. StuG III Assault guns advance and fire. Tiger tank of s.Pz.Abt.502 passes. Crewmen inspect damaged Befehls Panther tank and look over knocked out Russian T34 tank.. German Ju 87,Stuka dive bombers attack advancing Russian troops. Smoke rises due to explosions. A soldier points on the damage due to bombing. German aircraft in flight over the Russian jeeps and tanks.
General Ira Eaker receives Russian decoration from the Russian ambassador in Europe during World War II. Russian Ambassador M. Alexander Bogomolov and his wife Lydia in front of a U.S. Army Air Forces C-27 aircraft. General Jacob L. Devers and General Ira C. Eaker greets Russian officials as they get off a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft. Mrs. Bogomolov and a WAC ( Women's Army Corps) Captain talk. They walk towards a staff car. Nose of C-47 in the background. Army officers with ambassador Bogomolov including General Ira Eaker. He talks to Mr. And Mrs. Bogomolov. Wac Captain and Russian staff in club patio of General's campsite. Ambassador Bogomolov reads citation and then pins up a medal onto General Eaker.
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