German Red Cross women packing Christmas gifts for German soldiers in World War II. A Christmas card, Christmas decorations, and gifts for soldiers on the table. German soldiers in trenches in the frontlines receive letters from home. Postal mail call in a wooded area. A German soldier reads a letter and looks at a photograph of a woman. Allied invasion fleet underway for the D-Day landings in Normandy. A German tank crosses a bridge. Abandoned Allied trucks and wreckage from D-Day. An Allied ship lists to starboard. Strong waves crashes into a wrecked pontoon causeway.
Animated map showing the Rhineland region in Germany, Strasbourg (Strassburg), the Ardennes, and Netherlands in World War II. Night scene of rockets being fired as the German Army launched a major offensive through the Ardennes, starting the Battle of the Bulge. German Army fire Nebelwerfer rockets at night. Rockets hit enemy targets. German officer signals the artillery to fire. A heavy gun barrel is seen recoiling as it fires. German artillery crew firing field pieces. German soldiers in trench watch Allied positions being shelled. German troops firing an anti-aircraft gun hidden under branches of foliage. German soldier with camouflaged helmet. Captured United States Army soldiers walking by the Siegfred Line. Dragons Teeth antitank barriers are seen in the background. German soldiers riding on Stug III Ausf. F tank destroyers and half tracked vehicle (Sd.Kfz.251) pass by on muddy road. The captured American prisoners of war are made to march with their hands over their heads. German soldiers carrying Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons while marching in mud up to their ankles. Others carry MG 42 machine guns and belt ammunition. American helmets scattered on the ground. Dead Allied soldiers after the surprise German attack in the Ardennes.
A pair of German soldiers ride on top of a tank destroyer with a stuffed teddy bear fastened to its gun barrel, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. One of the soldiers is laying on his side. The camera focuses on the teddy bear doll as the tank destroyer passes. Utility vehicles, motorcycles, and trucks transporting troops on a road as seen from the rear of a vehicle. Allied prisoners of war (POW) march under guard along a muddy road past German vehicles. Some of the prisoners help or carry injured comrades. Closeup of captured American prisoners of war. Two prisoners of war smoke cigarettes while carrying an injured man. U.S. Army soldier prisoner of war skip over soft, muddy area through the woods. Four American single engine aircraft fly overhead. German soldiers fire anti-aircraft gun at enemy aircraft. An airplane is downed. Black smoke rises over downed plane. Close up of SS (Schutzstaffel) troops manning an anti-aircraft gun. German soldiers happily wave at friendly German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft buzzing at them. A formation of German aircraft overhead. A German officer from a camouflaged staff car points to aircraft above them. A soldier on a motorcycle looking up in the sky. Civilian woman gives out bread to a soldier riding on a canvas covered tank destroyer. The soldier is smiling after he received bread. A group of civilians welcome German troops in tanks. Children waving at the German soldiers. German troops riding on top of a Tiger II tank wave back at well-wishers. Field Marshal Walter Model, Commander of 5th and 6th Panzer Armies, conversing with soldiers and officers in the Ardennes. Marshal Model watch soldiers remove a fence. Model talking to a Nazi SS soldier.
Multiple shots of American F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft at low altitude during or shortly after the bombings on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. One airplane, smoking from its engine, flies directly over the cameraman (possibly a hit Japanese aircraft). U.S. sailors put out the fires that have engulfed aircraft on the ground during the Japanese attack. Many of the airplanes have been totally destroyed.
During the German invasion of Poland in World War II, a German flying squadron is shown preparing to practice shooting behind the front lines. Their Messerschmitt Bf 109 planes are shown, as well as German troops sitting on the ground preparing. Two soldiers without their jackets are shown talking in front of a practice target on the ground. They appear to be repainting the target. The airmen's planes are shown flying and shooting the ground near the square practice target. An airman with no shirt stands on top of a truck looking at the planes through binoculars while other fully uniformed soldiers watch while seated nearby. From a distance, a plane can once again be seen flying and shooting at the targets.
Long shot aerial view from a low-flying airplane shows airport in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Poland. View of many German Air Force planes, as well as various outbuildings. Narrator describes that after the German invasion of Poland during World War II, the Germans took over the airfield to use for their own military aircraft and operations. Bomb craters on ground from German bombing on September 1st, 1939. View from inside a hangar looking outward on destroyed aircraft debris. More shots of debris on the airfield. Several Polish aircraft are shown in various states of ruin. German soldier approaches a Polish biplane with gun damage to the skin of the fuselage.
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