Concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany shortly after its liberation near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Liberated internees at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Close up views of some of the starved former prisoners. Some of the former prisoners in striped prison uniform. Emaciated bodies with numbers tattooed on the stomachs.
Displaced civilians and prisoners of war in Germany near end of World War 2. Displaced persons get off the trucks at a German non-com school in Bergzabern, Germany where they will be housed. People stand in a line. Refugees prepare their meal over an open stove. Displaced persons receive food at Red Cross portable kitchen. 2200 American prisoners of war after being liberated from stalag 9-B in Breslau, Germany. Prisoners being addressed by an American officer at the camp area. A soldier with a tin stands in a line. A soldier with a chunk of bread. Released prisoners receive coffee in mugs and they drink it. Medics carry a man on a litter out of a building. Soldiers receive cigarettes and rations.
Displaced civilians in Bergzabern, Germany during World War II. Displaced persons climb into trucks. People get off the trucks. They stand along the roads. Allied soldiers talk to each other.
Displaced people in Bergzabern, Germany a about a month before the end of World War 2 in Europe. .Film begins showing destroyed buildings and rubble in the town. A long extension ladder is raised in an open lot. Many people are gathered in a street and in a large field. Some in the field are cooking meals. An American army truck is parked in a vacant lot, next to a covered elevated platform. Closeup of people obtaining water from a pipe at the platform. A large number of people assembling in a field where others are dispensing soup from large buckets and distributing other foods. Milk is being ladled from large milk cans into containers held by recipients. Closeup of a young man eating from a large bowl.
Displaced people in Bergzabern, Germany during World War II. Displaced persons being served food in containers. A man lights up a stove. Another man cooks food. Steam rises from the container as man stirs a huge spoon into it.
Operation Carpetbagger by the 492nd Bomb Group of United States 8th Air Force during World War II. View of automobile traffic on a London Street. London "Carpetbaggers" personnel working at the London headquarters of United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force. At Harrington field men load supplies on trucks for French resistance forces (Maquis, FFI). Men workout the daily packing schedule. Men pack guns, grenades, machine guns and other ammunitions. Special H containers and C containers for loading 303 ammunition. Boots, socks being packed. Gasoline Jerry cans being put in containers. Men place guns in containers. Instructions in French also placed with the supplies for the French resistance forces. Men pack explosives and radio sets. Medical supplies put in baskets. Harness and parachute shops in Holmes where men attach parachutes to containers. Packages being transported to airfield for dropping to the targets. A man on a telephone informs about the daily supplies to Special Forces headquarters in London. S-2, an intelligence officer forwards the list received from London. A man plots the target area on a map. In the weather room detailed map of the area is being prepared. Officers make a selection of the targets. S-2 informs the headquarters about the route of the planes. Supplies being loaded onto United States B-24 aircraft specially configured to carry and drop the containers using the bomb rack system in the aircraft. Flight crew is briefed before the operation. Chief Navigator talks about the course to be taken by the planes and the targets to be hit. Pilots work on a flight plan. Aircraft take off. An officer reports about the take off of the aircraft to the 8th Air Force headquarters.
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