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Scenes of France following the Normandy invasion during World War II. Allied prisoners of war

Map of the French coast and English Channel, highlighting major cities. German armored half-track and SP Flak on a Maultier half-track, camouflaged with foliage. German troops driving livestock along a dirt road. German army trucks barely visible under camoflage of tree branches and foliage. Allied fighter bombers attacking German positions and smoke rising from bombing. French civilians salvaging belongings and some leaving their war-torn village. View of destroyed and damaged buildings in the village and citizens working to clear debris. An injured person being carried on a stretcher by white-helmeted voluteers. A family leaving with their belongins piled into a horse-drawn wagon. Boys pulling a wagon with their belongings. Women pushing baby carriages as they leave their homes. A small group of French Colonial troops taken prisoner, being escorted under guard, along a dirt road. Large numbers of Allied prisoners of war (POWs), being marched through a French city, as local French people watch from sidewalks.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056340
Luftwaffe planes take off on strafing missions and German Army battles Allies in a ruined French village during World War II.

German forces battle against invading Allies in France, during World War 2. German German ME-109 and FW-190 aircraft starting engines on an airfield. Three ME-109s take. Pilot point of view from inside cockpit as aircraft strafes ground targets. An FW-190 in flight. View from cockpit during strafing run. View of pilot's hand on control stick. View from cockpit of strafing run against targets on village streets. German machine gunners in trenches look through binoculars. Huge explosions nearby from Allied counterfire. German artillerymen fire heavy guns, at zero elevation, from positions in forest. Germans in assault guns and tanks covered with foliage camouflage. View from inside a tank as it crushes foliage in its way. Tank commander in Tiger tank of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101 talks on radio. Panther tanks firing. Marder III tank destroyer. Tiger tank of s.Pz.Abt.505 fires. Destroyed and disabled Allied armor, including Assault guns and Sherman tanks. GermanTanks and infantry fire at Allied positions. German infantry engaged in house-to-house battles and using flame thrower, in ruins of a French town. German rocket launchers obscured by smoke as they fire rapidly.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056341
Numerous wrecked Allied warplanes. German ace Adolf Galland and other pilots. FW-190s and ME-109 airplanes in flight (WW2)

German soldiers climbing over a crash-landed B-17 bomber of the USAAF 96th Bomb Group, 337th Bomb Squadron, with tail number 42-3353. Its props are all bent and skin is peeled off its rudder and horizontal stabilizer. (This aircraft, named "Tar Fly," was hit by flak on September 9, 1943, and crash-landed west of Evreux, at Beamont-Le Roger, France. Two crew were killed and 8 taken as prisoners of war.) Smoking wreckage of an Allied aircraft in a field with two dead fliers lying on the ground about 50 yards away. Engines of a downed U.S. aircraft. Numerous views of wrecked American and British airplanes. Sign painted on one piece of wreckage reads: "When I go sightseeing in Tokyo, Tojo's gonna be my Ricksha Boy!" Piles of scrap alumunum from crashed airplanes piled up at a railroad siding, where German workers load it into rail freight cars. German army workers using tools to dismantle parts. Sequence shifts to a Messerschmitt Bf 109 that lands in a field. German airmen run to greet the pilot, who steps from the cockpit and describes some aerial maneuvers to a surrounding audience. Next, German ace, Adolf Galland is seen discussing tactics with other pilots. Several camouflaged Me Bf-109s lined up on a grass field, where ground crews are repairing and maintaining them. Closeups of German pilots climbing into cockpits of planes. Ground crews hand crank their starters. Next sequence shows Focke-Wulf FW-190 aircraft taxiing and then making a formation takeoff from grass field. Then an Me-Bf-109 is shown right after takeoff. FW-190s and Me-109s buzz the field. (World War II period)

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056342
Allied bombing campaign against Germany and Luftwaffe defenses during World War II

German M-Class mine sweeper in waters off France in World War 2. It is armed with quad-mounted 2 cm Flak 38 AA guns (2 cm Flakvierling 38). German Navy sailors look up at contrails from high flying Allied aircraft. Officer sights aircraft overhead and hurries to report it. He records his observation in a log. German radio operator transmits information over wireless telephone by morse code telegraph key. A mass of contrails from Allied aircraft is seen in the sky. Scene shifts to a German airfield in France, where Focke-Wulf FW-190 fighters are lined up. Ground crewman shows motion picture gun camera for an airplane. Men push a Messerschmitt Bf 104 out of a hangar. Closeup of German pilots strapping into Me-104s and taxiing for takeoff. FW-190s and Me-109s taking off from airfield. German civilians entering a Flak tower for refuge as a bomb shelter. View from inside as doors close. Trams stopped on street. Hospital staff moving patients to bunkers (bomb shelters). Massive contrails from Allied bombers. View inside a German command post, where women workers and German officers with headphones plot positions of attacking planes on large maps. Flight of German Me-109 aircraft in formation. Gun camera showing A U.S. B-17 bomber being shot from rear with its wing on fire and explosion in its tail. Glimpse of head-on attack against B-17. Two Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft in flight. A lone U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber under attack. B-17 with piece of windshield missing and horizontal stabilizer shot away. B-17 bomber formation under attack from the rear. View of pilot and instruments inside German fighter plane. B-17 being shot to pieces in frontal attack. More attacks on formations of B-17s. German women in command post recording combat information on displays. Parachutes of American B-17 crew in sky. Captured U.S. fliers being escorted under guard, and one, with head bandaged, being questioned by German officers (English conversation is heard.) The flier says he is fine They ask another flier if he is wounded. He says only a twisted ankle. Temporary graves of dead American fliers, with wooden crosses and names on them, including one with name George J.Parker.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056343
German Air Defenses battle against U.S. bombers during World War II. Capture of U.S. B-24 "Sunshine."

German fighter aircraft and antiaircraft guns battle against U.S. B-17 B-24 bombers during World War 2. Formation of B-17s in flight. A high altitude formation of U.S. bombers leaving condensation trails. German air defense coordinators in control room give instructions to German and Italian defenders. Antiaircraft gunners fire at Allied bombers. Views of the American B-24 Liberator bomber "Sunshine,"tail number: 42-52106, of the 719th Squadron, 449th Bomb Group of the 15th Air Force, which force-landed with two engines shot out, inside enemy occupied Italy. (After repairing the aircraft, the Germans filmed it with its American crew for propaganda purposes. Those scenes are what appear here.) Artwork is seen on the "Sunshine." The final scenes include gun camera footage of Me-109s firing at B-17s and B-24s.

Location: Italy
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056344
Civilians along with German soldiers and senior Nazi officers prepare defenses against Soviet forces in East Prussia during World War II

German military and civilians collaborate to build defenses against Soviet forces in East Prussia, during World War 2. They dig foundations and prepare pill boxes, among other fortifications. German Generals and other officers participate in the manual labor, laying their uniform blouses aside and digging in with the rest of the workers. They are seen preparing wide and deep antitank ditches to trap Soviet armor.

Location: East Prussia
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675056345
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