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Jagdgeschwader 53 Luftwaffe officers play with dog, paint planes in Sicily, WW2
Jagdgeschwader 53, also known as "Pik As" (Ace of Spades) Geschwader German Luftwaffe in Sicily, Italy during World War 2. Flags of Italy and Nazi Germany together. German officers play with a fox terrier dog, passing him to each other as he doggedly hangs on to a shoe while biting it. Nazi pilot, wearing a flight vest and an Iron Cross, plays cards with comrades. The "Pik As" (Ace of Spades) symbol on an airplane. German Luftwaffe pilot painting another of many Abschussbalken symbols of air victory on the tail of a plane. Mechanics fixing the engine of a fighter, likely a Messerschmitt Bf 109. A crane lifts a Daimler Benz 605 engine. Man spray paints “3” on a plane. A sign in German saying “Die an “dicke Luft” gewöhnten Jöge sind dem Pressluft rausch verfallen” (“Boys, who got used to “Thick Air”, are addicted to the high of compressed air” in German). A man picks up a fox terrier dog by the scruff of its neck and carriers it away.
A mill where tanks, armored cars and tractors are built in Italy.
An Italian mill where tanks, armored cars and tractors are built. Scenes of men doing work on tractors and armored cars at the mill. Men holding a vehicle tire. A man holding tracks of a tank. Body of the tanks. L6-40 Semovente light tanks ready in a yard.
Rome fire department tests new fire hydrant in Rome, Italy
Rome fire department tests new type of fire hydrant for the city. Fire fighters spray water from a hose as Interior Under Secretary Guido Buffarini looks on. (World War II period).
General Dwight D Eisenhower and Allied forces capture North Africa and Sicily, receives the French Legion of Honour medal (WWII)
General Dwight D Eisenhower from the North Africa campaign to the D-Day Normandy landings during World War II. Eisenhower with other military officers in the War Plan Office discusses strategy. A mural covering the west wall of the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas. An animated map shows plan to seize key positions in North Africa. Fight in Algiers and Casablanca. Allied troops fire artillery, bombarding a North African coastal town. Troops advancing from beachhead, engage in street fighting with Vichy French troops in Casablanca, Morocco. A flare gun is fired. Unfavorable weather conditions delay the troops advancing towards Tunis and Bizerte. Allied troops fighting at nighttime. Allied soldiers walk through mud, allied military vehicles pass through water on the roads. Troops fire artillery under a canopy, hitting the side of a hill. Thick clouds of smoke cover a hill. U.S. General Omar Bradley and his troops capture Bizerte, Tunisia and the British 1st Army captures Tunis. German and Italian prisoners raise their hands up upon surrender. Animated map shows the surrender of the Axis troops. A ceremony commemorates the victory. North African cavalrymen join the parade. General Eisenhower and Free French Forces General Henri Giraud review a military parade. Henri Giraud bestows to General Eisenhower the French Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. A mural on a wall of the Eisenhower Museum depicts the Allied invasion of Sicily. Allied troops march into Sicily in 1943.Civilians in the streets to celebrate. A mural on the wall of Eisenhower Museum depicts invasion of Italy. Allied troops land ashore and march into Italy. U.S. General Mark Clark 5th Army at Salerno. A sign reads Napoli. Eisenhower comes out of a tent. U.S. President Roosevelt visits the troops in the combat area with Eisenhower. United States President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in Cairo, Egypt. Another mural on the wall of the Eisenhower Museum. Eisenhower with other officers. Dramatization of German troops guarding and preparing the defenses of Normandy before the Allied landings. Eisenhower reviews training of the troops as they prepare for the invasion of France. Allied troops undergo physical training though obstacle courses. Churchill inspects the troops. Eisenhower reviews the troops on the eve of invasion. Eisenhower speaks to airborne troops wearing blackened camouflage face paint.
German and Italian aircraft dive through intense flak to bomb a British convoy underway in the Strait of Sicily.
A naval-air battle in the Strait of Italy during World War II. A formation of Italian and German bombers over the Strait of Italy. Ships of a British convoy underway. British ships fire antiaircraft guns at Italian aircraft. Flak bursts in the sky. Italian bombers bomb the ships. Explosions near and on the ships. British ships are heavily bombed by a large number of Italian bombers. Many ships sink after exploding. Smoke billows up from the ships afire. Italian MASs (torpedo armed motorboats) head for a British convoy. British ships are torpedoed. Smoke rises after explosions on the ships. The bombing of the convoy continues at night. Interiors of an Italian submarine shows its crew members at work. A list of claimed British losses includes HMS Furious (47), HMS Eagle, HMS Manchester (C15), HMS Cairo (D87) and HMS Foresight (H68). Victorious Italian MASs underway and Italian aircraft in flight overhead. View of letter from Mussolini congratulating the Axis forces, read by narrator. View of Italian attack boats moving at high speed in ocean.
Axis powers vision for conquest at onset of World War II
Invasion plans of the Axis power in the European Theater during World War 2. Film opens, ostensibly, showing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto speaking at a podium. (There is some question whether this is actually Yamamoto.) The U.S. Capitol and the Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, with marching Axis troops superimposed as if marching in conquest. Axis troops parade in Berlin, Germany. Animated diagram shows 'divide and rule' ambitions of the Axis powers. Animation showing radio signals emanating from radio towers with propaganda and "LIES". A German speaker delivers a propaganda message from a broadcast studio in Germany. Young women are seen gathering in groups. A woman in Italy receives an award for having many sons. Group of young men and women in Italy walking arm in arm which narrator describes as an effort to boost marriages and encourage having children. Cover of "Der Hammer" magazine in which German Dr. Willband Hentschel writes: "Round up a thousand German girls. Isolate them in a camp. Then let them be joined by a hundred German men. If a hundred such camps were set up, you would have 100,000 thoroughbred children in one stroke." Next scene shows a maternity ward with many (perhaps 30 or more) newborn infants laying on a large surface and being powdered, diapered, and swaddled by a team of German nurses. Narrator states: "Of course the children from this assembly line belong to the State, to be scientifically claimed for conquest."