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Pilot and plane captain of F4U aircraft perform engine start during World War II in the Pacific theater
Location looks like Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands, during World War 2. Palm trees in background. The weather is clear and sunny. Plane captain, in shorts, climbs into cockpit of an F4U corsair airplane of Marine Aircraft Group 11 (Number 525 on fuselage). Marine pilot hands him his seat pack parachute, which the plane captain places into the seat. The pilot climbs into cockpit, as plane captain stands on right wing and gives thumbs up for engine start. The engine does not start, so he walks along wing to check the engine. The scene is repeated, with plane captain scrambling over the fuselage again to a position on the wing for engine start. This time the engine starts. He clambers back to cockpit and helps pilot with his shoulder harness. Another view of this shown in closeup from left wing of the aircraft. View from in front of the aircraft, as engine starts, and plane captain steps up to help pilot with shoulder harness.
Portrays life in heavily bombed Malta during World War II.
Bombing in Malta during World War 2. Black clouds over the area. Scenes of bombardments on the city, in Malta. Military vans on the roads of the city. Scene of devastated buildings of museum, church and hospital. Nuns help people. A busy street in Malta. Scene of a windmill. A soldier near a big pig. Citizens are fed at a community center. Vegetables in baskets. A man notes down on a pad.
Malta during World War II
Film begins showing young school children on Malta, walking, through streets littered with rubble, on their way to an outdoor school during World War 2. . Several scenes of the children at school. They line up outside a building and then proceed to their outdoor classrooms, all of which have desks for them. Several scenes focusing on the children in various outdoor settings. British sailors move a torpedo on a transporter to arm a British Navy Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber. They roll the torpedo underneath the aircraft to fasten it in place. Naval aviators discuss the mission. A swordfish plane starts its engine. Sailors move munitions from storage in medieval moats, through walled passage ways to arm the aircraft. They load a torpedo onto a Bristol Beaufort twin engine torpedo bomber. The Beaufort bomber starts engines, taxis, and takes off. It is followed by two Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft. Malta defenders with anti-aircraft guns in positions under camouflage netting. One with binoculars scans the sky for enemy aircraft. He speaks into a radio. Air raid alarms sound, and civilians run to shelters, as the military mans anti-aircraft guns. Fighter pilots run to their aircraft. A Fairy Firefly fighter plane is seen readied and waiting for a pilot. Closeup of pilot climbing into cockpit. Anti-aircraft gun crew mans its gun. Farm workers pause and look skyward. Anti-aircraft guns firing. Axis aircraft downed by anti-aircraft fire, crashes in explosion. Guns fire at a German Heinkel 111 bombers. Bombs exploding on the ground. Civilians seen in a bomb shelter. Numerous bombs striking all across a city. People emerging from their shelters after the raids. Newspaper front page shows George VI and notes that he has awarded Malta the George Cross. Boys running to distribute the papers. A florist shop owner places flowers on display outside his shop.
Italian aircraft bombing Malta during World War II.
Scenes of Malta during World War 2. Navy warships passing by docks of harbor with city behind. Scenes of devastated buildings from Axis bombing. Bombing of city of Malta underway. A convoy fighting off Italian aircraft during air raid on the island. Civilians gathered at an air raid shelter for protection during the bombing. Man outside the shelter operates a hand cranked siren to signal the "All clear" after the bombing raid ends. Civilians depart the shelter. British soldiers in a field helping to grow farm crops. Scene of a pig and its piglets being tended by soldiers.
German and Italian Air forces bomb Malta during World War II
Film begins showing explosions from bombs in Malta from high flying Axis warplanes during World War 2. They raise huge columns of smoke. Remainder of the film shows scenes of destruction wrought by the bombing that eased in 1942. A bombed out church with only skeletal roofing left. People walking on a street between rows of rubble. A horse and carriage is the only other means of transportation seen. Empty walls of a destroyed buildings with rubble filling the area between them. Views from interior of a church looking out through a huge holes in its walls. Camera pans down from rubble covered high altar in a church, to a priest conducting mass at a make shift altar. Worshipers occupy chairs set up in front of the piles of rubble. Major building with only its front wall intact. A horse and carriage conveying passengers amidst pedestrians walking between rubble lined street. Camera pans across part of city to capture explosions from more bombs.
French troops move up to the front lines in Italy.
Lieutenant General Mark Clark and General Alphonse Juin during French troops in Italy. Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., liaison officer between Fifth Army and General Juin, speaking to French officers. Light Tank rumbling along highway. Two French soldiers standing in turret. Scout cars mounting 50 cal Air cooled machine guns carry French soldiers along the highway. Italian women knitting on doorstep. 2 ½ ton truck rolling through mud and rain. (World War II period).
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