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U.S. planes attack a Japanese destroyer, battleships and and other vessels in Manila, Philippines.

Attack on Japanese Destroyer (DD), battleships and cargo vessels by U.S. aircraft in Manila, Philippines during World War II. A Japanese DD under rocket attack. Rocket runs on Japanese cruiser ship and battleship. Strafing attack on anchored Japanese ship and carrier. Large bomb explosions near a Japanese tanker. U.S. aircraft strafes wooden Japanese cargo vessel. Bombing attack on a large tanker. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat Fighter plane strafes and fires rockets. U.S. Army aircraft SB2C Helldiver in flight fires rockets.

Date: 1944, November 5
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055358
Views of aircraft in gunnery practice. Gun camera film removed and processed. Gun camera scoring is explained.

US Army Air Force training film on the A-N Gun Camera - Scoring of Gun Sight Aiming Point Film. Army Air Forces AT-6 aircraft towing a target sleeve as other AT-6s shoot at it. AT-6 training aircraft in flight with gun camera installed in the aircraft. Pilot seen in cockpit. The aircraft, parked on ramp. Pilot climbs out of cockpit, wearing seatpack parachute. An armorer removes the film magazine and then completes a scoring data form. The film is taken to a laboratory to be developed and scored. A Lieutenant explains gun camera scoring to a group of Air Force personnel, in an auditorium. He winds the film on a 100 foot reel, removing any damaged or unused film and splicing a leader on to it. He writes pilot and mission information on the film leader. Lecturer then illustrates scoring process, using a blackboard, and demonstrating with a scoring device adapted from a 16mm motion picture projector. Finally he displays charts dealing with trajectories of 30 caliber ammunition and relationships of range, span of target, and image size. He performs arithmetic calculations on the blackboard. Animated diagrams illustrate points being discussed. A Lieutenant in the audience asks about ground targets, and the instructor discusses that and also responds to several other questions from the audience. (World War 2 period.)

Date: 1942
Duration: 18 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055368
French Air Force in World War I. Germany Army occupies Paris in World War II

Opening scene shows French Nieuport biplanes in aerial combat with German airplanes in World War 1. Many are engaged in a massive dogfight. One aircraft is seen hit and falling toward the ground. Next, two French aircraft are seen returning to their base. They fly over a hangar where a crashed airplane sits with tail in the air. Near the hanger are several airplanes in various stages of maintenance. Mechanics are moving one. An airplane taxis in front of the hangar. Scene shifts to closeup of a Lafayette Escadrille Indian logo painted on a metal structure. Scene shifts to a formal award ceremony for some pilots and crews. Their squadron members are lined up behind them in front of a line of aircraft. The view is from behind a formation of French soldiers with rifles, rendering salutes. Next, French soldiers parade on the airdrome, led by a military band. At this point the scene phases out as a fireball is superimposed on a map of Europe, signifying World War 2. Adolf Hitler is seen in closeup near the Eiffel Tower, when he visits Paris, France following its occupation by German forces in 1940. Several views of German troops marching along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and through the Arc de Triomphe. Closeups of some German soldiers in the ranks. Scene shifts to North Africa, in 1942, as American troops make an unopposed amphibious landing on the coast, in Operation Torch. Several landing craft are seen and troops ashore. A Dodge 3/4 ton WC-51 army truck, with half of its hood open, makes its way through the surf as it leaves a landing craft.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055376
U.S. gun camera footage of American fighter firing at German bomber and fighter during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation in the European Theater during World War 2. Gun camera footage from P-47 (or possibly a P-51) flown by Maj. Crossen from 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group. He attacks German Junkers JU 88 bomber and a Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft. (Note: The 355th Fighter Group transitioned into P-51s from P-47s during Spring of 1944)

Date: 1944, March 27
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055415
A large crowd gathers for Christian celebration at a market place in Cologne, Germany.

Tourist destinations and architecture before World War 2 in Western Germany. Elevated view as a locomotive train pulling train cars moves across a bridge and on the railroad track. Smoke comes out of it. View of coal fuel piled high behind locomotive. A large crowd gathers at a marketplace for a Catholic procession in Cologne. Elevated view of the bustling outdoor marketplace in Cologne. A religious procession winds through the streets - likely an Easter procession. Clergy in the procession and a group of nuns in habits. Clergy and sacristans in the procession, followed by young girls wearing white and carrying flowers. Clergy carrying banners. The Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) in the background.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055444
Cologne Cathedral building and city scenes as seen from a spire in Cologne, Germany.

Tourist destinations and architecture in Germany, before damage of World War 2. Gothic architecture of the Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany). The Cologne Cathedral main entrance shows 19th century statues. The façade of the Cologne Cathedral. City scenes from a spire. Vehicles and trams on a street. Buildings and monuments on either side of the street. The Deutzer suspension bridge on the river Rhine in the background.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055445