Allied soldiers inspect a wrecked German fighter aircraft near Paris, France during World War II. U.S. Army soldier looks at the empennage of wrecked plane bearing the Nazi Swastika. A pair of captured German Luftwaffe crew standing near the wreckage. An artillery is seen in the background. Close-up view of captured German Luftwaffe pilot’s face showing bandages for injuries. Allied troops folding a tarp. Smoke rise from the debris and wreckage of German plane. A captured prisoner of war German Luftwaffe crewman looks down.
French 2nd Armored Division M4 Sherman tank “SROCO” driving into a hedge near Paris, France during World War II. Advertisement for “ORANGE” on a wall is seen. French civilians crowd the streets of Paris during the arrival of Free French soldiers into the city. Civilians greet French soldiers and a few US troops on Jeeps and vehicles. A group of young men and women waving at Allied troops. A French man opens a Champagne bottle. French civilians hold Champagne bottles and glasses to celebrate arrival of Allied troops into Paris shortly after the city's liberation from German forces.
A crowded street with a pillar of smoke rising from afar after the Liberation of Paris in World War II. Men standing on top of vehicle on the foreground. French civilians running near the Arc de Triomphe. Angry French civilian men confront captured German prisoners of war. U.S. Army soldiers wearing M1 helmets (with anchor stenciled in front) blocking civilians from German prisoners. Several civilians crouching low on the ground and laying on the ground, and others crouching low while they wheel away their bicycles, possibly having heard an episode of gun fire. Civilians watch the columns of German prisoners marching through Avenue de Champs Elysees leading to the Arc de Triomphe.
WW2-evacuated children in German at a Hitler Youth camp. Teenage boys in swimming trunks head to Chiemsee lake in Chieming, Bavaria, Germany. The three teenagers talk and shake hands before joining a mock naval flotilla. Hitler Youth boys begin rowing and paddling boats. A Hitler Youth boy plays drums on one of the boats. Two German boys from another Hitler Youth group on a boat notice the flotilla. The two boys head back to shore to warn other boys. German boy climbs a tree to call a teenager standing on top of the tree. Teenager uses binoculars to watch the mock flotilla. Boys head to a Hitler Youth straw fort to raise alarm. Hitler Youth boys assume prone position in front of the straw fort. Mock flotilla heads towards lakeshore. Hitler Youth boys on boats push a swimming boy’s head under the water. Boy swims towards a boat and knocks the rower out. Boy takes over the boat. Boy on boat dives into the water. Another boy snatches the paddle from a boat rower, taking the boy from the boat into the water. Boys tackle and wrestle each other during a mock battle in the lake. More reinforcements run to the lake to overpower mock flotilla. Boys with ladder on raft lower their mast and wade to the shore. Hitler Youth boys wrestle in mock combat on lakeside. Groups of German boys tackling each other roughly. Some of the boys bring an improvised ladder sneak away from the brawl, climbing up the straw fort and cheering. Boys inside the fort opens the gate and run. A single sig rune (emblem of the Hitler Youth) adorns some flags. Hitler Youth boys standing behind an enclosure watch the fighting. Hitler Youth boys climb a straw wall and pull the guard away. "Captured" Hitler Youth boys in enclosure are rescued while another boy takes the Hitler Youth flag inside the fort. A Hitler Youth teenager waves their flag on top of the straw fort, showing they have captured the opposing fort. Hitler Youth groups stop their mock battle and begin to cheer.
Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers in flight over Dunkirk during World War II. A British ship sailing the English Channel. British soldiers use binoculars to view Stuka dive bombers from ship deck. Naval artillery moves into position and fires at dive bombers. Junkers Ju 87 dive bombing. Water explosion from bombs. Aerial and gun camera view of German dive bomber bombardment. Point of view shot from inside cockpit of a single Junkers Ju 87 dive bombing British ship at low altitude. Stuka releases bombs from bomb bay. British ship in flames after German dive bomber bombardment.
Three Sukhoi Su-9 aircraft (NATO reporting name: Fishpot) fighters during the 1962 Soviet Aviation Day Display at Tushino Airfield (present day Otkrytie Bank Arena, Volokolamskoye Shosse, 69, Moscow, Russia, 125424) near Moscow, Soviet Union. Famous Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin uses binoculars to watch the airshow from a balcony. Three Yakovlev Yak-28 (NATO reporting names: Brewer, Brewer-E, Firebar, and Maestro) fighters in flyover. Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Soviet officials watch from a balcony. A Myasishchev M-50 supersonic strategic bomber with two Sukhoi Su-9 escorts in flight. A Tupolev Tu-28 (NATO reporting name Fiddler) long-range interceptor aircraft demonstrating at the airshow. A Soviet man looking skyward. A fighter aircraft (possibly MiG-21) climbing high in the sky during the airshow.
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