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A soldier inspects dead bodies of Nazi atrocity victims in World War II in a wooded area of Landsberg, Germany.
Wooded forest area, site of Nazi atrocities in World War 2: U.S. Army soldiers walk in woods and examine bodies of Jewish concentration camp victims near Landsberg Germany. The bodies lie on the ground close together. Some victims are wearing prison uniform pieces.
German Atlantic Wall coastal defenses. German forces enter the Crimean Peninsula in World War II.
In opening scene, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is giving a "pep talk" to senior officers assembled at the Northern part of the German "Atlantic Wall" defenses in Scandinavia, during World War 2. A German sentry is seen in front of a large coastal fortification bearing the name "Skagerrak." Camera focuses on the barrel of a huge coastal gun. Closeup of the sentry. Troops travel on a small gauge railway carrying canisters of propellant and shells to a unique heavy coastal gun installed , near Kristiansand, Norway, overlooking the Skagerak Strait. (The gun is a 28 cm SK C/34 naval gun, similar to those installed on some battleships. But this one was appropriated from an abandoned German Army super-tank project.) An alarm bell sounds in the fort and soldiers respond. Next, huge coastal gun shells are seen being moved on conveyors to the gun. A team of gun operators recite preparation steps out loud as they adjust range, bearing, and other parameters before firing the weapon. Gunners load a shell into the gun breech, followed by several propellant charges. The breech lowers inside the fort as the gun barrel is raised to desired elevation. The gun is fired. More commands are spoken aloud and another round is fired. Glimpse from outside of gun flash at night. Complete change of scene shows a map of Crimean Peninsula. Anti-aircraft guns are shown at coastal areas. A quad-barreled FlaKvierling 38 gun is seen. German forces entering the Crimea. Infantry walk in and others, ride in open trucks.One soldier mans a light gun mounted on the back of a 6-wheeled truck. German soldiers posted on roads directing incoming traffic of trucks carrying troops. Closeups of German soldiers riding in open trucks. A trio of German Army officers watches the incoming troops. Local refugees carry their belongings as they flee from battle fronts.
Theater performances in Berlin, Germany in 1941, during World War II
Women chorus line or chorus girl dancers perform as part of a stage production in Berlin, Germany, 1941, during World War 2. Scene shifts to a concert hall, where a German General and other officers are in front row seats applauding the conductor who is treated as a maestro. He speaks to them from the orchestra pit. Closeup of the maestro as he begins conducting the orchestra, presumably accompanying actors/singers on stage (unseen). Glimpse of audience reveals many German military officers and civilian men and women. After the performance, the maestro escorts a woman and a man onto the stage, which is set for the just concluded performance. The maestro bows slightly. The next scene is still onstage and a civilian man joins the two performers just seen along with a young military officer in a white uniform (possibly a Kriegsmarine officer). Another woman joins them. She also greets the maestro. A large basket of flowers sits in their midst. Finally the young Kriegsmarine officer shakes hands with the maestro..
Berlin, Germany copes with a heavy snow storm during 1941, in World War II
Opening scene shows the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, in World War 2, with snow piled high in the streets around it. Several women with a baby in a carriage, make their way across a street. A car and a tram pass them in the main part of the street. Two trams pass each other. View shifts to countryside, where houses nestled in trees are completely covered in deep snow. Only their chimneys are visible. As a man shovels at snow obscuring houses, young people are seen in background traversing a ridge on skis. Two men shoveling a path near buildings. They create a trench almost shoulder deep. A skier speeds down from a hill and onto the roof of a snow-covered building in a town. View of a locomotive and train, behind it, with snow almost halfway up its sides. A group of local people work together to uncover the train and clear a path ahead of it. Closeup of Locomotive wheel filled with snow. Man with shovel, clearing snow from Locomotive wheels. The train moving as the locomotive pushes it backwards. People walking across a snow-covered bridge displaying sculptures along its sides. A vehicle fitted with a snow plow clearing snow from a city street. The top of a moving car seen as the rest of it is hidden by snow piles along a road. A powerful tractor snow plow cutting its way through deep snow. Teams of people helping to clear road of snow. Drivers of cars dig their cars out of snow. Workers warming themselves by bonfires. A heavily laden truck stuck in the snow, and another slid off the road into a ditch. A long line of trucks and cars stalled in the snow. A tractor pulling a truck along the road.
Task Force 16 with Doolittle raiders underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II
U.S. ships of Task Force 16 underway in the Pacific Ocean carrying the Doolittle Raid crews of World War 2. The bow of the USS Salt Lake City, CA-25, as it goes through heavy seas. Water breaking over the bow. Various ships of a task force on the horizon. The bow of the same cruiser receives another breaker. The camouflaged Gleaves-class destroyer USS Meredith (DD-434) seen off the starboard of CA-25. A signalman raises flags. He sends blinker signals to carriers. A single stack destroyer of the Benham Class comes up alongside the cruiser. The task Force including USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, destroyers and two tankers underway. Aviation detail on the well-deck preparing to catapult a U.S. Navy SOC Seagull aircraft. The SOC aircraft is catapulted. A signalman sends a semaphore message. Signal flags on the ship. Several SOC scout planes are launched.
Doolittle Raid, fleet fueling operations, 1942. World War II.
Fleet of U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean to launch the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo, Japan, early in World War 2. Most of the film is of the Fleet Oiler, USS Sabine, AO-25 fueling aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, CV-6. At times 01:38 to 01:44, the destroyer USS Benham, DD-397, is seen on the starboard side of the USS Sabine. heavy At times 02:15 to 02:20, the fleet oiler USS Cimarron, AO-22, fueling the heavy cruiser USS Northampton, CA-26 with a destroyer and aircraft carrier USS Hornet, CV-8 in background. At times 02:22 to 02:45 fleet oiler USS Cimarron, AO-22, coming along side the USS Enterprise.
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