Former SA (storm troopers) headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany during World War II. A statue. Exterior of the building (which now houses the Nordpark Aquazoo). Various rooms inside the building. A German flag inside the building. A photograph of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler on a wall. German flags, pamphlets and papers scattered in the rooms. A soldier inspects the scattered things. He looks at photographs.
U.S. soldiers in Unter-Diessen, Germany during World War II. Members of the 1st Battalion, 506th Parachute Regiment in a chow line on a field. Prisoners are also being fed at the same time. German prisoners eat. Two soldiers smoke. A released Russian captain speaks to U.S. soldiers.
U.S. soldiers in Unter-Diessen, Germany during World War 2, as they close on Landsberg. American soldiers on motorcycles, trucks and other vehicles move through a village. A sign reads: 'UnterDiessen'. The military vehicles move past. Buildings in the area. The soldiers walk along a street. A soldier talks to civilians. A German civilian under guard digs up buried helmets and small arms.
Pilots test fly a P-40 airplane at a Curtiss Company facility at Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo municipal airport) during World War II. Curtiss company employees giving a final cleanup and polish to a shiny P-40 airplane. parked on the ramp. Two pilots are suited up to fly: H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left), and a U.S. Army Air Force major (at right), are dressed in flight suits, helmets, goggles, and wearing seat-pack parachutes. They stand beside a well-worn P-40 airplane that has a pilot/technician in its cockpit, checking controls. H. Lloyd Child (at left), points to a clipboard on his leg with information on it and discusses it with another pilot (the USAAF major). Next, a pilot is seen taxiing the shiny P-40 at fairly high speed, with the canopy open. He taxis past parked aircraft in front of a hangar, including a Curtiss SBC Helldiver; a Stinson Gullwing; and a Spartan Executive airplane. The P-40 taxis out to the runway where the pilot makes a long takeoff roll before breaking ground. Then he pulls the P-40 into a fairly steep climb, leveling off at about traffic pattern altitude, without retracting his landing gear.
New United States Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 aircraft being placed on flight line at Curtiss Aircraft company facility in Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo Municipal Airport) during World War II. A new P-40 aircraft being rolled out of the Curtiss hangar. Employees push several new P-40s. The aircraft are seen parked on the ramp.
Two pilots stand in front of a P-40 airplane at the Curtiss Aircraft Company in Buffalo, NY. The pilots are H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left) and apparently a USAAF major (at right). They are performing acceptance flight tests on new planes during World War II. Another pilot is in the cockpit of the plane behind them. A P-40 is seen taxiing rapidly on the ramp near the Curtiss hangars at the Buffalo Airport. A shiny P-40 being taxied. The first P-40 takes off and climbs out with landing gear extended. The shiny one does likewise. The first P-40 is seen circling high overhead, with landing gear still extended. Next, it is seen over the runway on final approach, about to land. Curtiss employees move aircraft parts in an open stake truck, next to a building, in the foreground.
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