Fleet of Allied A-26 warplanes of United States Army Air Force fly over the Alps in Germany, during World War II. Colonel talks to U.S. Army Air Force pilots at an airbase. The Colonel illustrates strategies of bombing, on a map as pilots listen to him. Wrecked building of air base behind the Colonel.
Pilots of the United States Army Air Force 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, board their P-51D aircraft, for a mission against German targets, during World War II. They are operating from a bombed out captured German airfield, near the end of the War in Europe. Major L.K. Brueland is seen in cockpit of his airplane as he taxis with the canopy open, making his way between obstructions on the ramp. His aircraft displays 14 and one half swastikas. Another pilot climbs aboard his P-51D, as a photographer stands on the nose of the aircraft. His airplane has 16 German crosses (not swastikas ) painted on it. Crew chief cleans his canopy. He taxis out with canopy closed.
Pilots of the United States Army Air Force 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Wing, operating from partially destroyed former German airbase, near the end of the second world war. Crew chief helps pilot in cockpit of a P-51, adjust his shoulder harness. Engine starts and aircraft taxis out. Major L.K. Brueland, wearing a holstered 45 automatic pistol, climbs on wing of his P-51. Partial name "Speck" and 14 and a half swastikas are painted on it. Crew chief helps him don parachute and adjust shoulder harness when he gets in cockpit. Squadron Commander, Major Jack T. Bradley, taxis in his aircraft, named " Margie Maru." His aircraft has 14 swastikas painted on its fuselage.
P-51 planes of United States Army Air Force taxi and take off under direction of runway control officer who uses a flag to control takeoff intervals
National leaders of Great Britain, United States of America and Soviet Union meet during the Yalta Conference at Crimea in Ukraine. Foreign secretaries of the three Allied nations Stettinius, Eden and Molotov meet at Malta. General George C Marshal meets with the secretaries. Meeting of the secretaries at Montgomery house at Malta. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill disembarks from a plane for Yalta Conference. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt arrives with his daughter. The dignitaries review an honor guard. Soviet Premiere Joseph Stalin arrives and the Big Three during the meeting at conference hall in the summer palace of Czar Nicholas. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin pose for a group photograph and military generals stand behind them. (World War II period).
United States Marines load material on a Landing Ship Tank (LST) in Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Marines carrying their baggages move inside the well deck of LST. Soldiers with their barrack on bags march towards the LST. Supply trucks near the LST. Marines take off supplies from a truck and push them on skids to the LST.