Highlights of United States Eighth Air Force Fighter Combat in Germany. Gun camera footage showing Eighth Air Force attacks on German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt ME-262 jet propelled fighter aircraft. ME-262 attacked by 360th, 83d, 375th, 383d, 63d, 486th, 77th, 361st and 82d Squadron Groups. Several German planes catch fire and fall from the sky.
A line of B-25 Mitchell bombers on an airfield in Britain. They display the British roundel on their fuselages. A line of British de havilland Mosquito bombers on a British airfield. One has its engines running and ground crew are removing ground power unit. A line of Martin B-26 Marauder bombers taxiing on an airfield. Several persons on the ground wave as a pair of B-26s take off in formation. The B-26s display French roundels on their fuselages. View of a B-26 heading toward the camera on takeoff. British Avro Lancaster bombers taxiing out for takeoff. Closeup of one pilot in cockpit of a Lancaster with engines running. The bomber displays numerous mission symbols below the cockpit as well as some nose art. A Lancaster taking off. An animated map showing England, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. Enemy gun and rocket sites are depicted as important targets. A formation of B-26 bombers in flight. Closeup of one from above. Formation of Mosquito bombers in flight at low altitude over water.Two British B-25 bombers in close formation above clouds. Next, the animated map shows lines of communication that are important targets. .B-25s seen dropping bombs. Views from aircraft of bombs exploding on the ground. A B-26 bomber surrounded by black Flak clouds. More bombs exploding. More B-25s dropping bombs. Animated map highlights transportation centers such as railroad lines and junctions as the next targets. B-26 bombers dropping bombs in flak clouds and views of exploding bombs below. Finally, the animated map shows enemy war factories throughout Europe that are to be targeted. Huge fires and explosions at night from bombed war factories.
German boys or possibly Hitler Youth work at a railroad machine workshop in Germany during World War 2. A factory foreman or supervisor checks the work done by a teenage child labor group in the production plant. Boys close a locomotive door and examine their work. A train engine starts and the locomotive is ready to move from the station. An engineer and a teenage youth inside the train. A signal tower gives departure signal. Teenage girl assists with train dispatching, signaling, and switching. German civilians get aboard the train. A woman dispatcher with a baby in her arms. She hands over the baby to the mother through a train window. She waves her hand on departure.
A German man works on a wood lathe to make wooden hands and legs for amputees in Germany during World War 2. The man makes wooden hand prosthetics for amputees. He cuts hole in wooden blocks. A piece of wood is shaped like a bone. Group of disabled young German men, presumably all veteran German soldiers wounded in combat, is seen outside a hospital, playing ball and exercising with use of prosthetics. A man rides a bicycle wearing his prosthesis. A soldier walks up a hill with a gun on his shoulder. Shows soldiers using prosthesis.
American 8th Air Force fighter operations in Germany during World War II. Captain B E Ellington of 360th Squadron in action. German ME-109 is chased and shot down. The plane explodes in flames.
Opening scene shows Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorf, Chief of the Berlin Germany police, reviewing a contingent of police as they march past him. Scene shifts to courtroom, where he is being tried for conspiracy in the July 20th plot to kill Adolf Hitler. The venue is the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) presided over by the Court's President, Roland Freisler, who does all the talking during the proceeding. Von Helldorf stands quietly before the court, while Freisler berates him. The court is filled with military and civilian officials.