Film begins, showing remains of a Boeing B-17F from the U.S. 100th Bombardment Group (BG) with home base at RAF Station Thorpe Abbotts, England, during World War 2. Camera pans over a field of debris containing two of the aircraft's engines and the wreckage of the fuselage and tail. The tail displays the Square D symbol of the 100th BG, plus the letter "T" and some of its tail number: "2303." Camera pans interior wreckage including crew seats and oxygen tanks. It then shows broken wings along with bodies of several crew members wearing parachute harnesses. A different side of the fuselage and tail shows the tail number "230311." This fully identifies it as B-17, number 42-23011. A field grade German officer and another officer examine the wreckage. Views of aircraft wreckage, in a forest, including a Browning M2 .50 caliber machine gun and another aircraft engine. Scene shifts to nearby town, where German women in white are serving meals at an outdoor food kitchen, for local people who are preparing to evacuate. A camper van loaded with family belongings is seen moving in the background. Several women, carrying plates of their food, walk toward tables. Some sit and eat at a table with a German soldier. Women make themselves sandwiches with foods laid out on a butcher block table. Closeup of a large drum of drinking water. local people fill containers from it. German children are seen aboard a bus waving goodbye to their mothers during evacuation for their safety. German children are placed aboard open boats at a port, for transport to safety out of war zone. German women and children board a train during evacuation to safety. Huge piles of their luggage is stacked on the train platform. View of a substantial private home in a residential area. Inside view shows it has been converted into nursery for infants, who are seen in many small cribs. Women sit on the lawn behind a substantial country home, as some small children run toward them from the house.
Gun camera footage from a P-51D fighter plane of the USAAF 357th Fighter Group, 364th Fighter Squadron, stationed at RAF Leiston. This one is being flown by Lieutenant Dale E. Karger on 5 December, 1944. Camera shows Karger's aircraft tracking and firing at a German Focke Wulf Fw-190 aircraft flying below him. His rounds strike the FW-190 and it bursts into flames and falls toward the ground. (Note: This shows one of two Fw-190s Karger shot down this day. They were his first aerial victories. He went on to finish his tour with credit for 7.5 downed German aircraft.)
Adolf Hitler has tea, at Christmas time, with children, in the Mooslahnerkopf tea house, near his home, the Berghof, in Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. Children, Nazi German officers and women around a Christmas tree decorated with ribbons and real flaming candles. Women open presents. Hitler helps the children write on a slate. During World War 2.
A man secures a large steamer trunk. Two men place the trunk and a duffel bag onto a truck. Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's companion, on tarmac of airport and greets friends and family. She along with others boards a Condor four engine transport aircraft. ( FW 200A-0-S8 named the "Grenzmark"). Those aboard include her mother and father and sister. Aerial views are seen through the aircraft cabin windows.
Adolf Hitler and a men take an early morning walk on grounds of the Berghof in Bavaria.. A man holding a walking stick sits on a bench. Group of women and men including a German officer looks at mountains and the scenery. Sky at dusk.
Eva Braun and a group of Nazi military officers and women sit and relax on the terrace of the Berghof. .A boy and girl are seen on the terrace. A group of officers and women looks at the scenery from a pathway on the Berhof grounds.. A girl picks up flowers, smells them and looks at the scenery. Eva Braun, Hitler's companion, bends over a wooden railing to look at the scenery. Several children walk to Adolf Hitler, who greets them.
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