Medical Corpsmen carry a wounded U.S. soldier on a stretcher across snow covered battlefield, in World War 2. U.S. infantry firing small arms at German enemy on snow covered battlefield.They run across the field and occasionally take cover, lying down in the snow with close-up views of soldiers firing from prone position. U.S. troops on the march single file and running along path in woods in fog and snow. Troops in winter clothing, with snow encrusted, suffer wind and snow as they try to clear roadway using shovels. A tractor with a snow blade sits nearby. Snow covered U.S. troops enter a town. U.S. artillerymen fire 240mm howitzer and 155mm long tom gun, under camouflage nettings. Troops moving single file up a mountain roadway. M4 high speed tractors pulling 155mm guns along a snow covered road, shrinking Nazi progress in the Battle of the Bulge. Troops ride a tank through snow. Some soldiers wear white camouflage coveralls. Two U.S. soldiers ride in jeep over rainy muddy road with snow on roadside. "Ogden, Utah" painted on bottom of windshield. U.S. troops wade through mud and water. German prisoners of war being marched single file through a woods. Jeeps and an ambulance mired down in mud. Formation of U.S. C-47 aircraft flying low and air dropping ammunition and supplies to American forces on the ground. Soldiers rush to an air dropped bundle and distribute its contents.German prisoners of war march along a path. Four carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher. Temporary U.S. field cemetery with white wooden crosses. A temporary field cemetery with German crosses. Group of U.S. soldiers reading letters from home, and then looking up as a group to watch a formation of B-17 bombers leaving contrails at high altitude overhead. View from a B-17 as bombs explode on target below. Views from U.S. fighters strafing and firing rockets at German ground targets.View from bomber of incendiary bombs creating fires at night in Germany. A B-24 Liberator bomber seen from the ground, as it flies through smoke and flak.
Engineers of Allied forces build pontoon bridge for soldiers during World War 2 in Germany. Soldiers of Allied forces outside an entrance talk and smile. A soldier smokes. Soldiers sit in fox holes. Firing at night. Guns fire in day time. A gun releases smoke. Soldiers advance. Soldiers carry a boat on shoulders. Soldiers cross river on boats. Soldiers move wounded on litters. Engineers lay a bridge over the Ruhr river near Julich. Soldiers pass over it. A soldier smokes. Jeep moves on a road. Tanks in a field.
American troops take time out during advance into Germany during World War 2. Sign erected by American soldiers, in a field in Germany, reads: "Rhine Rodeo." What appears to be a sign for highway "112" is behind and an artillery piece sits in field in background. Two U.S. soldiers in top hats laugh as they watch others, who appear to be experienced cowboys, take turns in bronco busting and other rodeo events. Local German civilians and youth watch events from the side of the field. U.S. troops seen moving on further into Germany.
U.S. paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division are seen silhoutted against sky as they board C-47 transport aircraft in Operation Market Garden mission to Grave and Nijmegen, Holland, in September, 1944, during World War 2. C-47 starts engines. C-47s take off towing gliders. Change of subject to Allied operations crossing the Rhine River into Germany in 1945. U.S. Army troops in a long boat powered by an outboard motor. U.S. troops board U.S. Navy amphibious assault boats on shore of the Rhine (Rhein) River. View from above of assault boats undergoing fire from German defenders during the crossing. U.S. troops moving quickly out of the assault boats on German soil. Scene shifts to airborne operations. View in cockpit of U.S. transport aircraft carrying U.S. paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division, on joint British-American Operation Varsity, to drop paratroopers on the German side of the Rhine River. A C-46 transport aircraft, in flight, bearing Tail Code "H.". View from cargo compartment as 17th Airborne Division paratroopers exit very efficiently, by jumping from both doors of the C-46. Sky filled with parachutes. Scene shifts to ground operations. U.S. Army troops stand shoulder to shoulder on a section of pontoon bridge, as it is pushed across a river by Army engineers in two small power boats. U.S. tanks and vehicles crossing pontoon bridges. Supreme Allied Commander, Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, stands with Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson, commander of the U.S. Ninth Army, as they observe Allied operations. American soldiers taking German prisoners of war. German POWs being escorted under guard and large numbers of them in an open field under U.S. guard.
U.S. troops liberate American prisoners of war at German camp during World War 2. Lieutenant Generals George Patton and Omar Bradley, together with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a U.S. Major General, walk through a liberated German concentration camp, followed by numerous other officers. The grounds are strewn with bodies of emaciated dead prisoners. Some are stacked up like cordwood. Some dead are carried off. Survivors are given medical attention and placed in ambulances or trucks. German civilians plundering shops and warehouses, and carrying off goods on carts.German women fighting over goods. Old man sleeping in street.
U.S. flag being lowered as bugler sounds and narrator alludes to the death of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, near the end of World War II. American troops and tanks rolling through German cities identified by narrator as Madeburg, Nuremberg and Leipzig, at end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. troops cleaning out last vestiges of resistance in street fighting. Numerous German citizens lining sidewalks in city and waving white flags. On April 25, 1945, U.S. Army Second Lieutenant William Robertson with soldiers Frank Huff, James McDonnell and Paul Staub, meet Soviet Lieutenant Alexander Silvashko and several Soviet soldiers on the remnants of the Elbe bridge of Torgau. A U.S. Army Brigadier General mingling with Soviet officers. On April 26,1945, Major General Emil F. Reinhardt Commander of the U.S. 69th Infantry Division, walks with Soviet Major General Ruskovof the Soviet 58th Guards Rifle Division near Torgau. They are accompanied by other U.S. and Soviet officers. U.S. and Soviet officers exchange mutual salutes. U.S. and Soviet soldiers mingle, as a Soviet soldier plays accordian and some drink toasts, smoke cigarettes, and pose together. View of the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg where a U.S. soldier is seen near the huge Swastika atop the Zeppelin Grandstand. Flashback views of Nazi rally there. Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler and Viktor Lutze at the rally. Three American soldiers walking along the same walkway in the rally grounds. Explosion seen as the Nazi swastika symbol atop the Zeppelinfeld grandstand in Nuremberg is blown up by American troops.
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