United States Army Air Forces operations in Germany during final days of World War 2 in Europe. United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts taxiing on a ramp in front of an open hangar at Fritzlar Air Base. A group of crew chiefs conversing. Trees in the foreground. P-47 takes off. Crewmen pushing a bomb trailer. A crew chief reading the pony edition of the "Times." Mechanics work on jeeps. An airman, followed by a pet dog, climbs steps to a trailer. Enlisted man talking to a Tech Sergeant who leans out window of a building. An L-5 liaison airplane taxis in a parking area. Three U.S. soldiers walking across the perimeter strip. Enlisted men shake hands with pilot of the L-5, who carries a German cavalry sword as a souvenir. They walk into building through door with sign reading: : "Colonel Stecker, Commanding." (Colonel Ray Stecker is Commander, U.S. 365th Fighter Group, of the 84th Fighter Wing.) ground crewman washes down ramp with a hose. P-47 and refueling truck in background.
Aircraft in flight overhead in Frankfurt, Germany during World War II. United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt in flight overhead. A formation flight of the aircraft. The aircraft in flight over the clouds.
United States soldiers in Germany during World War II. A fire burning in a village. Houses in the town of Niederaula on fire. Heavy columns of smoke rising up from a burning village. Houses in the foreground. Vehicles driving past on a street.
A film about the conditions at Nazi German concentration camps in Europe during World War II. Leipzig concentration camp in Germany. Camp area with buildings. A dead body on ground with mutilated face. Dead bodies near a live wire fence. Dead include Russians, Poles and Czechs. A Russian woman liberated from a slave camp look at the dead.
A film about the conditions at Nazi concentration camps in Europe during World War II. Penig concentration camp in Germany. Camp inmates mainly Hungarians. Woman lying in beds at the camp. An Allied medic attends a patient. Wounds on back, and feet of the inmates. Inmates suffer from various diseases. Allied soldiers help to evacuate women and other inmates to a German air force hospital. Injured and sick being carried on litters. Red Cross helps in evacuation of inmates. Injured lying on litters outside the hospital. Trucks lined up outside the hospital. Woman being carried inside the hospital. German nurses help in evacuation. Woman lying on litters as they smile.
American forces in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Landmarks include the heavily damaged New Town Hall, Burgplatz, and a church. At start of film, German civilians are seen running along railroad tracks, past war-damaged platform, to reach a train. Hungry German civilian men wrestle with a man on a sidewalk holding a large piece of meat. American soldiers walking across a city square in single file. Two Sherman tanks move across city square following the tracks of a tramway. The overhead electric wires for the tram are visible. More views of American soldiers walking and some in jeeps. A tilted view of the Reform Evangelist Church. Then camera straightens out and shows it properly. In front of the church, two American soldiers sit on a half-track with M45 Quadmount (Maxson) Anti-Aircraft guns installed on it. Back of the half-track has "660 AAA" stenciled on it. Many Jerry cans are held in racks along the sides of the half-track. Scene shifts to a formation of German prisoners of war with their hands over their heads. Close-up views of faces of German soldier prisoners of war. Camera pans across them, closeup. They carry all their personal gear, including bed rolls, but no weapons. View from behind them. Wider glimpse of the prisoners under guard. The severely damaged 1928 Kroch Building (Krochhochhaus) is seen in the background. Several German prisoners sit in a jeep, guarded by an American soldier with an M3 .45-caliber sub-machine gun ("grease gun"). At the end of the film, the bomb damaged 1905 New City Hall (Neues Rathaus) is seen in the background.
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