US Army Air Force in Germany; Ohrdruf in flames; planes
Creator(s)
- United States. Army Air Forces. (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- Johnson (Camera Operator)
Scope and Content
The clip that is viewable online is a selected excerpt from the complete story - timecode 09:04:04 to 09:10:07. Diving on bridge over river. P-47 dives on town. Strafing railroad, road, town. Large formation of P-47s in the air. MS, CU C-47 taking off. 09:04:04 MS German officers waiting evacuation. CU Hugo Sperrle, former chief of staff. MCU as officers climb into C-47 for evacuation. German officers. MS German prisoners awaiting air evacuation. MS as they board C-47. CU pilot and nose of C-47 as he turns over engine. MS A-20 buzzes and flies over field. 09:05:53 MS burning barracks at Ohrdruf concentration camp. CUs flames, burning barracks, raging fire, billowing smoke, burning buildings. Pan down burning building. CUs flames. LS of German city and airport. 09:10:07 LS as plane takes off from airfield. MS dummy airplane on German field. LS as four P-47s buzz and fly over field. MLS as P-47s taxi on grass field. P-47s prepare for takeoffs. MLS P-47s takeoff, land, buzz field.
Note(s)
USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a new, higher resolution digital file produced for the VHH project. The 16mm film source from NARA was scanned by the Austrian Filmmuseum in 2021.
Subjects
- AERIAL VIEWS
- STRAFING
- AIRPORTS
- AIR FORCE (U.S.)
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- FIRES
- DESTRUCTION
- GERMANY
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- OHRDRUF
- SMOKE
- AIRPLANES
- MILITARY VEHICLES
- BARRACKS
- EVACUATIONS
Places
- Ohrdruf, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film