German civilians carry corpses of the prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany. Several mutilated corpses of the prisoners lying outside the prison area. Catholic chaplain conducts burial rites at an altar set up on the hood of a U.S. Army jeep. Sick and dying prisoners are carried on stretcher to ambulances by U.S. medics and military police of the 3rd Armored Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. Several scenes of emaciated victims lying on stretchers. (World War II period).
German civilians carry corpses of the prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp in Nordhausen,Germany. Several mutilated corpses of the prisoners lying outside the prison area. A Catholic chaplain conducts burial rites at an altar set up on the hood of an U.S. Army jeep. Sick and dying prisoners are carried on stretcher to ambulances by U.S. medics and military police of the 3rd Infantry Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. Several scenes of emaciated victims lying on stretchers. (World War II period).
Aged victims of the concentration camp are boarded on trucks by U.S. medics of the U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division in Nordhausen,Germany. A concentration camp victim seated on the ground with a pot of food between his legs. The victim talks to U.S. Army soldiers. German civilians and American soldiers carry corpses of the prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp. Numerous corpses of the prisoners lying outside the camp area for burial. Scenes of mutilated sections of the corpses.
View of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria. Cremation ovens used to execute the prisoners. A German guard held at gun point by the American troops. Liberated American speaks, surrounded by a group of prisoners. He is U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jack H. Taylor of Hollywood, California. Filmed by Lt. Col. George C. Stevens, he says that in October 1944 he was the first allied officer to drop into Austria. He says he was captured December 1, 1944 by the Gestapo, and severely beaten. He details his imprisonment time in Austria and then at Mauthausen. He shows insignia and dog tags of two American soldiers who were executed in a gas chamber of the camp by the Germans. He details the multiple methods used by the Germans to kill prisoners, including shooting, gas chamber, beating, exposure in the snow for 48 hours with cold water thrown on them, starvation, dogs, and pushing off a hundred foot cliff. He thanks the American 11th Armored Division for rescuing them. (World War II period).
Vietnamese forklift operator unloads supply crates from boxcars at the Saigon Port in Saigon,Vietnam. American soldier watches as a Viet worker breaks the seal of a conex container. Sandpiper forklift unloads a conex container from a flat car. An American soldier supervises as the cargo is being loaded onto U.S. Army trucks by forklift. Loaded trucks drive off. Entrance to the 506th Field Depot. U.S. cargo trucks enter and leave. View of the 506th Field Depot Headquarter building. U.S. cargo ship at dock. Supplies being loaded and unloaded at the dock. (Vietnam War period).
Shows American 52nd and 53rd Coast Artillery Regiments uncovering and preparing a 14-inch railway gun for operation in Belleville, France, during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of World War 1. Several railroad guns are seen in the field. One is labeled USN (U.S. Navy) 110. A supervisor walks past it using a megaphone to issue an order to the gun crew. The crew uses block and tackle to move and load a heavy shell. Scene shifts to a soldier climbing out of a trench with a manual in his hand. Camera shifts to one of the rail guns being fired, emitting a huge black cloud of smoke. Two more railway gun firings are recorded. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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