AZON Aerial Bombs (VB-1 and VB-2 series) dropped. As seen from a bomber aircraft. Two successive bombs dropped, #64 and #105, and hit their targets. A pointer of a meter shows the deviation in the position of the bombs being dropped. (World War II period).
High angle bomb controllable in range and azimuth, generally called 'Razon'. Models VB-2 and VB-3. A high angle bomb placed on a rack kept at a United States Air Force base. (World War II period).
Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges of the United States Army at Master Tac headquarters area in Belgium, during World War II. Soldier removes cover on front license plate revealing three stars on plate (representing the three star general), and then waits by open car door for General Hodges to enter the car. Hodges walks towards his car. Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges and Lieutenant General Miles E. Dempsey of the 2nd British Army walk out of a building talking to each other.
Two U.S. soldiers inspect a concentration camp in Dachau in Germany, a year after the end of World War 2. A signboard saying 'This area is being retained as a shrine to 238,000 individuals who were cremated here. Please do not destroy'. A wooden box which was used to store the ashes of cremated victims. Multilingual signboard 'Pistol range for executions' Soldiers inspect pistol range, a mound of earth used to stop bullets. They talk to a Polish farmer, a survivor of the Camp Dachau. Signboards saying 'Crematory, Dachau Concentration Camp' and 'Ashes were stored here'.
Dachau concentration camp in Germany, after liberation in final days of World War 2. Sign on railroad station building 'Dachau'. Free standing corner post decorated with figures on top, showing three German soldiers in one direction and a German soldier pointing two German musicians in the other direction. One musician has a bass fiddle on his back and carries a folded umbrella. The other carries an accordion. Sign on the entrance to the Concentration Camp: 'Quarantine, Typhus. This concentration camp is off limits to all civil and military personnel. By order of General Patch, CG, Seventh Army'. Christian altars with Mother Mary, a monstrance, and an altar card at the concentration camp. Pile of dead bodies of victims of Nazi atrocities carried in horse carts by German civilians wearing gas masks.
Views of damage in the city of Wiesbaden in Germany during end of World War II. Civilians walking on a street. Damaged buildings due to bombing. Statue of Kaiser Friedrich III seen between demolished buildings. Ruins and debris of buildings destroyed by aerial bombardment in World War 2. Sign over an archway reads "Kaiser Frederich Platz."
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