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U.S. airmen greet their families after being freed by the USSR at the Wiesbaden Air Base in West Germany.

U.S. airmen greet their families at the Wiesbaden Air Base in West Germany. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) frees 9 United States airmen whose straying airliner was shot down in flames over Armenia. Airmen get off an aircraft at the Wiesbaden Air Base. They greet their families and loved ones. They gets into a bus.

Date: 1958, July 10
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072510
German civilian Matthias Gierens is hung until death for murdering a downed American flier in Germany in World War 2.

German civilian Matthias Gierens, a 37 year old railroad worker, is hanged in Rheinbach Germany for the August 15, 1944 murder of a downed American flyer, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss, from Forsythe, Montana. Reuss was the navigator on U.S. Army B-17 bomber #42-31183 which was downed by German aircraft after it attacked the Airdrome at Wiesbaden, Germany. Gierens and three other German civilian men, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, for the murder of the American airman after his parachute landing near Priest, Germany. The trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime. Military police are seen escorting Gierens toward the gallows in a prison yard in Rheinbach. A German Catholic priest performs the rites. U.S military officer reads charges as Gierens is readied for execution (the officer is possibly Lt. Col J.V. Roddy, of San Francisco, who was in charge of the hanging). Trap door opens and Gierens is hung. The U.S. Army executioners were Master Sgt. John C. Woods, a former Texas State executioner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas Robinson, of Bronx, New York. Witnesses present included seven U.S. Lieutenant Colonels and one British officer, a number of Military Police, news correspondents, and photographers.

Date: 1945, June 29
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072726
Motorcade for President Kennedy passes through crowded street to Wiesbaden Air Base Operations

A motorcade for United States President John F. Kennedy passes the crowded Hainerberg Circle in Wiesbaden, Germany. Security in motorcycles surround the motorcade as they move on the road. President Kennedy arrives at Wiesbaden Air Base Operations. President Kennedy inspects various aircraft from his limousine at the airbase. Air Force crew stand at attention for President Kennedy. A United States Air Force officer greets President Kennedy. Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport plane and Douglas C-124 Globemaster II cargo aircraft are seen.

Date: 1963, June 26
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080548
A German crane operator and workers work at a steel girder construction in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Germany ten years after World War II. Construction in Wiesbaden Germany. Two German crane operators work. A hook carries a cable. A worker directs a hoisting operation from the ground. A worker hooks a cable. Steel girders on the ground. Steel girder construction and men work on it. A steel girder attached to the hook is lifted. It is moved over the steel girder construction. A side of the crane reads 'Krupp Rheinhausen'. Workers work with steel girders and crane.

Date: 1954, May 26
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031778
A half completed new state government building and workers at work in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Germany ten years after World War II. Construction in Wiesbaden, Germany. A half completed new state government building. Men work on the building. A winch in operation with a man operating it. Bricks being put on a hoist and pulled up the side of the building in wheelbarrows. The hoist is being lowered. A man walks and places a crowbar on a wheelbarrow. It is hoisted up the building. A man bends an iron reinforcement rack on a cable. Iron reinforcement rod is being bent. A crane operator operates a crane and smiles.

Date: 1954, July 23
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031779
Farmers reaping oats and Dyckerhoff Cement Works in Wiesbaden, Germany

Germany ten years after World War II. Farmers in Wiesbaden, Germany. A farmer reaps oats. He uses a scythe to cut oats. The farmer and his family ride on a horse drawn wagon. In contrast, a farmer is seen harvesting his oat crop using a tractor pulling an reaper that cuts and drops bundles of oats as it proceeds along the field. Two young farm workers pose. One wipes his brow. Farmer cleaning the reaper cutter. Harvested oats being transported in open train cars pulled by an electric locomotive. Views of Dyckerhoff Cement Works with fumes emanating from a dozen smoke stacks. Steam locomotives moving in the area of the plant.

Date: 1954, August 2
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031781