Landing operations in Anzio, Italy during World War II. Allied ships underway at sea off the coast of Anzio. Troops and vehicles aboard a ship. A two and a half ton amphibious truck heads for a beach. An Allied ship in the background. Landing crafts loaded with troops pull away from ships towards the beach. Different types of landing crafts in the Anzio harbor. A barrage balloon in flight. An LSM ( Landing Ship Mechanized) lands on the beach after a bomb hit and smoke rises from it.
Allied troops and equipment in Italy during World War II. Destroyed and abandoned German tracked vehicle. Allied soldiers look at the tracked vehicle. Allied soldiers stand on a wrecked and upturned German tank hanging over a cliff. Wreckage of German tanks and artillery. Allied troops move past wreckage and debris. View of a Dodge vehicle with a German helmet.
Liberated Allied prisoners of war in Moosburg, Germany during World War II. Two liberated U.S. soldiers drink wine from a bottle as they stand beside a U.S. Army jeep. One of them smiles and drinks from the bottle. A group of liberated 8th Air Force officers and bomber crew pose as they cheer after being liberated. Four U.S. soldiers walk and smile after being set free.
Liberated Allied prisoners of war in Moosburg, Germany during World War II. A Red Cross car and a truck carrying supplies arrive. The Red Cross insignia on the car. A British soldier opens a box of supplies. Liberated Allied prisoners walk towards the car. The British soldier distributes supplies to the Allied prisoners mainly the British and the Americans. Another box being opened. The supplies being distributed. A liberated prisoner eats.
First Part: Former POW camp, Stalag VII-A, in Moosburg, Bavaria Sign at camp entrance reads, 'Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts Stammlager VIIA' Second Part: Disassembled portions of jet powered German Messerschmidt aircraft Me 262 at a storage area near a channel in Mitterlern, 38 Kilometers northeast of Munich between Moosburg and Erding, Germany after World War II. A farmer examines the different parts of the aircraft including the nose still armed with guns.
Film opens showing a Captain, Intelligence officer with the U.S 8th Airforce 97th Bombardment Group, debriefing Captain William “Bill” Musselwhite, Commander of the 342nd Bombardment Squadron, about his unit's experience participating in the first Eighth Air Force heavy bomber mission in World War II, attacking the Rouen-Sotteville marshalling yards in France, on August 17, 1942. Referring to a map, he asks Captain Musselwhite where his Squadron dropped their bombs. Musselwhite points out the path of his units aircraft and that his first aircraft overshot the target, but those following dropped "on range," bracketing the target on left and right, with one "stick" of bombs going right down the middle. He mentions one ship straying over the town of Rouen, itself.
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