United States Army Air Forces B-17 aircraft in European Theater during World War II. United States 8th Air Force B-17 aircraft lands at an airfield. Three B-17G aircraft including a Pistol Packin' Mama and a B-17F aircraft come in for landing. The aircraft land at the field and taxi along.
United States Army Air Force B-17 aircraft in European Theater during World War II. United States 8th Air Force B-17 aircraft in flight. The B-17s in a formation flight. B-17G aircraft in a flyover. A mass formation of B-17 aircraft in flight. Formation of five B-17s in flight and they turn. Formation of six B-17 aircraft in flight.
United States Army Air Force B-17 aircraft in European Theater during World War II. United States 8th Air Force B-17 aircraft in flight. The B-17Gs in a formation flight of two. A B-17F aircraft in flight. Two B-17G and B-17F aircraft take off and climb.
Use and manufacture of artillery during World War II. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler giving Nazi salute and German troops marching. A newspaper headline reads 'Poland Invaded'. Japanese zero aircraft in flight and bomb strikes on U.S. Navy ships at Pearl Harbor. Scenes from water of the devastation in Pearl Harbor after attack by Japanese aircraft on U.S. Navy ships. A flight of U.S. Navy Douglas TBD torpedo bombers dropping torpedoes. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated at a desk signing declaration of war, in 1941. U.S. war production workers manufacturing tanks, guns, ammunition, artillery, shells, and jeeps in arms and munitions factories. War materiel including Army jeeps and tanks loaded with soldiers on parade. U.S. troops firing artillery in North Africa. U.S. forces advancing through wet jungles in the Pacific Theater of World War 2.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
Two German U-boats destroyed in European Theatre of Operations. P-38 planes along with B-17 planes fly over a large allied convoy toward U-boat. One OA 10A plane takes off from a ship. Planes drop bombs on one U-boat and is destroyed. Narrator highlights still image in film showing bomb on the way to U-boat target. Another U-boat destroyed by OA 10A plane. (World War II period).
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