Strafing of ground targets in Japan, as recorded by gun camera of U.S. aircraft during World War 2. Aerial strafing seems concentrated on lines of communication such as roads and waterways. Mountains visible in background. Fire and smoke seen, due to explosions.
View of a farmer in a huge field in a rural area of New York. Farmer uses a team of horses and mules for harrowing the field.
View of a farmer in a huge field in a rural area of New York. The farmer uses a horses for plowing the field.
General Dwight Eisenhower and his wife are greeted in Washington DC by Secretary Defense Robert Lovett and General Omar Bradley. General Eisenhower meets high officials in the Pentagon building in Arlington Virginia. Cameramen taking pictures of the events. General Eisenhower in a meeting with U.S. President Truman regarding expediting of arms to NATO nations in Europe.
Large numbers of surrendered German soldiers march in loose formation along a street in Munich, Germany, a week before the end of World War 2, in Europe. Point of view (POV) shot from camera moving beside and slightly faster than the column of surrendered and captured German soldiers. A group of American soldiers riding on a Sherman tank, pass the camera. Several M-36 Jackson tank destroyers pass, also loaded with U.S. soldiers. Two German women are seated, quietly, on a parked M1 57mm gun from an Anti-Tank Company of the 222nd Infantry Regiment (42nd Rainbow Division). Saddened German civilian spectators watch the goings on from an island in the center of the street. Pedestrians, cyclists, and people moving goods on hand carts, cross on an intersecting street. The columns of surrendered German soldiers line the other street, away from the intersection. Some of the German women watching wipe tears from their eyes.
United States Army Sergeant is seen wearing a ear-mounted microphone and broadcasting news to German civilians in Cologne, Germany, late in World War 2. Three audio loud speakers are mounted on truck. Large crowd of somber and sad looking German civilians stand on the streets and listen to the news and announcements. The crowd is mostly women, older men, and some children. Several men are seen wearing hats. Close up views of some of the German civilians and German children in the crowd as they listen to announcements. A few men are seen smoking and some are seen with bicycles. Civilians are seen questioning the U.S. Army speaker after his broadcast
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