American 8th Air Force Division attacks a key railway center in Regensburg, Germany. B-17 bombers drop bombs to destroy a railway center Gun camera footage shows bomb impact causing a pillar of smoke to rise.
Aerial views from an airplane flying over the city of Jülich, Germany, showing destruction from American 9th Air Force bombings during World War II. Smoke is still rising from some of the wrecked buildings. A cathedral standing amongst the wreckage.
U.S. military personnel in Strasburg seize German scientific records as a part of Alsos mission. Aachen headquarters in Germany, toward end of World War 2. Military personnel stand outside headquarters. Military jeep parked outside a building in Cologne. Ruins of building are seen. Men leave jeep and enter a building. Lieutenant Ditesheim and a soldier walk out of the building carrying documents followed by scroungers. Army personnel get on jeep to leave for field headquarters in Aachen. Officer stands outside Aachen headquarters and officers go through documents.
United States troops carry out Alsos operation in Germany during World War II. Troops advance in armored cars and jeeps. A German man shows white flag from window of house. General Pash and Brigadier General Harrison approach square to receive surrender. Houses with white flags. General Harrison and Colonel Landsdale at a building in Tailfingen suburb. Troops and military vehicles outside building. Board of 'Tailfingen' on a building. Face of Brigadier General Harrison and troops at armored cars.
Large numbers of surrendered German soldiers march in loose formation along a street in Munich, Germany, a week before the end of World War 2, in Europe. Point of view (POV) shot from camera moving beside and slightly faster than the column of surrendered and captured German soldiers. A group of American soldiers riding on a Sherman tank, pass the camera. Several M-36 Jackson tank destroyers pass, also loaded with U.S. soldiers. Two German women are seated, quietly, on a parked M1 57mm gun from an Anti-Tank Company of the 222nd Infantry Regiment (42nd Rainbow Division). Saddened German civilian spectators watch the goings on from an island in the center of the street. Pedestrians, cyclists, and people moving goods on hand carts, cross on an intersecting street. The columns of surrendered German soldiers line the other street, away from the intersection. Some of the German women watching wipe tears from their eyes.
Bombed city of Cologne in Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings seen in the city. View of ruins and rubble in the city. Civilians walking through the ruins, carrying luggage with them.
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