The last month of combat in World War 2, in Europe. Gun camera footage from a U.S. 8th Air Force P-47M of the 56th Fighter Group, 63rd Fighter Squadron. The aircraft strafes German targets of opportunity on the ground including German aircraft. Smoke rises from exploding building. A number of German aircraft burn. Aerial view of green fields and burning German buildings. The pilot is Captain Walter L Flagg of Conimicut, Rhode Island. His aircraft is Number: 44-21140, UN-F, named "Shoot You're Faded."
Last leg of transatlantic flight by Roger Q Williams and Captain Lewis A Yancey arriving land in Rome after brief stop in Spain, on their flight from Old Orchard, Maine. They are seen by their Bellanca monoplane named "Pathfinder." Another scene shows Benito Mussolini, dressed in white suit and hat, standing with other officials, awaiting arrival of the aviators. (After 2 hours he must leave and doesn't get to greet them personally.) Night scene of the aviators with Italian crowd of admirers. A large bonfire is lit nearby. Photographers in the crowd.
Germany invades Poland at start of World War 2. German soldiers march with rifles in hands. Troops march with ammunition loaded carts and bicycles on dirt road. Explosions on Polish territories at night as seen from ship in harbor. Number of camouflaged German artillery pieces fire at Polish positions. Explosions on hillside. German soldiers fire and advance in occupation of Poland
The German attack on Poland, at Danzig (Gdansk) triggering World War 2. Views of German artillery firing at fort and buildings across a stretch of water. German artilleryman looking through periscopic binoculars. Smoke rising from the shelling. German troops firing machine guns. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein is seen bombarding Polish army defenses at Westerplatte. (The battleship had entered the harbor and anchored off Westerplatte, in August, under the false pretense of a friendly visit.) Columns of smoke rising from fires started by the shelling. German troops advancing toward Gdynia in armored cars and trucks. A German officer on horseback. A German soldier on a motorcycle. Two German Panzer II tanks moving down a muddy slope as invasion begins. Army vehicles on wet roads and infantry making their way across a shallow streams. Infantry marching along a road. Closeups of the German soldiers as they pass the camera. Officers in a staff car. View from a height of smoke rising from fires on the ground in distance, mixing with cumulus clouds above. (Note: some English narrative begins late in the film, around TC: 00:58)
Retribution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Initial part of clip is reenactment showing two of the posse members, Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton, shooting Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton hide in bushes and wait for the couple's car. They open fire on the car with Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in it. Actual footage follows of the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde inside the car. Bullet holes in the car. View of two sawed off shot guns, 2 Machine rifles, 10 automatic pistols found in the back of Clyde Barrow's car. Close up view of bullet holes in windshield and door of car.
Scenes following the death of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Close up views of two shot guns, 2 machine rifles, 10 automatic pistols found inside Clyde Barrow's car. Bonnie Parker's vanity box with feminine make-up items. Various license plates from different states found in the car. Scene on streets of Arcadia Louisiana, with a crowd gathered in front of the combination Furniture store and Undertaker company where the bodies of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were taken.
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