War damage in Sicily, Italy after bombings done by USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes during World War II.. Debris at a railroad station. A sign reads 'Taormina Giardini'. A U.S. soldier inspects bullet holes on a locomotive. Wrecked locomotives and debris.
Views of Taormina,and the nearby Island of Isola Bella, in the Ionian Sea, Sicily, taken by U.S. Army photographers during World War 2. The Ionian Sea coast near Taormina, seen from a high point of land. A home with cantilevered porch on a hillside. A woman looking over the wall. View of a substantial building in the countryside on the side of a hill. The door of a building with "cleared of mines," written on it and a sign reading,"Reserved for USAAF." A waterfront home with a large deck and rooftop veranda overlooking the sea. The Island of Isola Bella with strip of sand crossing to it at low tide. The adjoining bay and small rocky peninsula. A substantial government or corporate complex high on a hill. View from high on a hill, of a speedboat underway in the sea.
War damage in Sicily, Italy after bombings of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. U.S. soldiers inspect a wrecked German airplane on a captured Italian airfield. A soldier shows the picture of a German pilot. The soldiers examine the wreckage of a German airplane. A damaged hangar shows wreckage of airplanes. A picture of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
German Navy officers and sailors (including Walter Gerhold, who won the Knight's Cross for his one man mini-submarine [Neger] attack on the Polish Cruiser Dragon in July 1944) arrive by train and are greeted by affiliated Hitler youth in Berlin, during World War 2. Accompanied by a contingent of Navy-related Hitler youth boys, they board a bus and are waved at by a group of Hitler youth girls, as they depart. View inside the bus of a young Kriegsmarine (Navy) officer sitting with admiring Hitler youth in Navy-style uniforms. Next they are seen meeting the National German Youth Leader (Reichsjugendleiter) Artur Axmann, in uniform. One of the boys is then fitted out in flotation gear,helmet, and breathing apparatus of a Marder human torpedo operator. The boys gather around a Marder, one-man submarine. Closeup of some boys shows "11/184 Kiel,"on their hats, indicating the Youth unit to which they belong. The boy dressed in operators gear, now sits in the cockpit of the Marder submarine. A sailor shows him how to aim it. Those gathered around, tap on the plexiglass cockpit of the submarine. An experienced sailor tells the boys about using such a weapon against English ships and amuses them with personal stories.
Hitler Madchen, the feminine branch of the Hitler Youth, attends domestic science classes in Germany. Women cook and serve food. A woman operates a loom. The women use sewing machines.
German ski troops advance in the French Alps during World War 2. Troopers climb a snowy mountain. Various views of troops using ropes to climb over the mountain.
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