U.S. Army Air Forces XX Bomber Command Operations during World War 2. A Boeing B-29-10-BW Superfortress, number 42-6347, named "King Size," of the 462nd Bombardment Group, 769th Bombardment Squadron. It is seen here, at their forward operating base on Kiunglai Airfield, China. Tents are seen near the flight line. Numerous bombs are lined up on the ground ready to be loaded aboard the bomber. A B-29 taking off at nightfall. A formation of B-29s in flight. Bombs being dropped over Japanese installations at Hatto, Formosa (aka Taiwan). View of B-29 landing after the mission. (Note. Formosa was a Japanese colonial territory from 1895 to 1945.)
German boys or possibly Hitler Youth work at a railroad machine workshop in Germany during World War 2. A factory foreman or supervisor checks the work done by a teenage child labor group in the production plant. Boys close a locomotive door and examine their work. A train engine starts and the locomotive is ready to move from the station. An engineer and a teenage youth inside the train. A signal tower gives departure signal. Teenage girl assists with train dispatching, signaling, and switching. German civilians get aboard the train. A woman dispatcher with a baby in her arms. She hands over the baby to the mother through a train window. She waves her hand on departure.
A German man works on a wood lathe to make wooden hands and legs for amputees in Germany during World War 2. The man makes wooden hand prosthetics for amputees. He cuts hole in wooden blocks. A piece of wood is shaped like a bone. Group of disabled young German men, presumably all veteran German soldiers wounded in combat, is seen outside a hospital, playing ball and exercising with use of prosthetics. A man rides a bicycle wearing his prosthesis. A soldier walks up a hill with a gun on his shoulder. Shows soldiers using prosthesis.
Hitler Youth undergo equestrian training in Germany in World War 2. Boys in uniform mounted on horses. They perform drills, change their mounts, and jump over fences. A German boy stands next to his horse. The Hitler Youth receive certificates of recognition.
German Führer Adolf Hitler's military emissaries bring greetings to famous 85-year-old German Field Marshal August von Mackensen during World War II. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other officials converse with von Mackensen and present him a laudatory document. At one point, Mackensen appears to be lecturing Field Marshal Keitel in attendance. Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi and other leaders of the nationalist Arrow Cross Party visit Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany. Szálasi and Hitler speak to each other while walking. Szálasi and Hungarian officials are seen wearing the Arrow Cross Party armbands.
An animated map shows Hungary and nearby countries. A flotilla of German warships plies the Danube River at Budapest, Hungary, during World War 2. They fire anti-aircraft guns at aircraft overhead. The Hungarian Parliament Building (Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 1, 1055 Hungary) and the Elizabeth Bridge (Erzsébet híd) are seen at the river.
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