Wreckage on a German airfield in Nuremberg, Germany. Wrecked German equipment around the airfield. A building in background. Wreckage of a Luftwaffe aircraft on the airfield. A portrait of Adolf Hitler lying in the wreckage.
An American soldier uses a mine detector while "protected" by another armed soldier, during NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo" in Germany. An area at the side of a road is cordoned off with triangular flags warning of mines.
View of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. View of the George Washington Bridge, and automobiles at its toll plaza (e.g. 1948 Lincoln). Elevated views and aerial views as car traffic moves on New Jersey and Manhattan parkways. Street sign pointing to the 'Queens Midtown tunnel.' Trucks and cars headed toward the tunnel. Traffic entering and leaving the Lincoln Tunnel, including a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer truck. Manhattan commercial markets, where trucks deliver various food supplies. Men unloading the fresh food boxes on busy streets of New York City. Fresh fish is poured into baskets outside the Geo F. Fish market. The food items are supplied to central markets and the grocery stores.
Street sign shows 5th Avenue and East 51st Street, in Manhattan, New York City. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk on the Fifth Avenue. Double-decker bus of 5th Avenue Coach Company on the street. Fashionable shops shown include Best & Co.and Black, Starr & Gorham. Mannequins dressed fashionably. Silver and china and fine glass articles on display in shops. A woman stands and looks at several items on display. A man and boy look at model sail boats in shop window. Flowers in a flower shop. Cars move along the street.
Scenes from December 18th 1944,during World War 2. German soldiers of Kampfgruppe Max Hansen, a temporary battle group formed during the Battle of the Bulge (from SS-Panzergrenadierdivision Regiment 2, an infantry regiment of SS Pz Rgt 2 "Das Reich") advance towards Poteau road junction past burning half tracks and Jeeps of U.S. 14th Cavalry group. One man is armed with a Stg44 assault rifle. Cut to squad leader signals advance, in the “wrong direction”. i.e Away from the Poteau junction and back along the road to Recht. Scene shifts to to smoke covered roadway. Germans attempt to start a captured jeep in field. It faces towards right, away from the front lines. An M8 armoured car burns. PK photographer and officer walk past camera, towards the right. Scene cuts to Pz Grenadiers walk away from camera towards the Poteau junction. Smoke covers the road. A Jagspanzer IV/70 comes into view and enters the field after the grenadiers have passed. Cut to grenadiers as they walk along the edge of the roadside ditch, past a burning jeep. Cuts to grenadier crawling under barbed wire fence at roadside, first man, with bandaged hand gets caught on the wire by his greatcoat! Second shot of grenadiers running away from camera in direction of Poteau through the smoke of the burning U.S. vehicles. PK photographer moves into frame before. Cuts to Panzergrenadiers moving towards the cameraman past the vehicles. Half tracks and jeeps loaded with personal equipment baggage. Further shots of the burning vehicles. Filmed looking in the direction of Recht (this is the direction the U.S. convoy was heading when it was attacked).
U.S. troops of 4th Infantry Division in France. The troops walk along a road. Trees in the background. A squad walks at the side of a road. Two German prisoners with hands on heads walk behind. A soldier guards them. Soldiers walk through a rubbled village. They pass a road sign. The sign reads 'Cherence le Roussel'. Soldiers move through the streets. Houses in the background. A soldier ties a handkerchief on the end of a stick to mark the location of a mine. The squad walks cautiously through the village. They check buildings and look for snipers. A soldier walks along a street and talks on a walkie-talkie. A soldier reads a paper. Soldiers near a building. ' Cherence le Roussel, Mairie' written on the building. (World War II period).
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