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British R.A.F. bombing raids by A-20 aircraft in German-occupied France and over Germany in World War II.
World War 2 Newsreel footage of British air raids on German occupied France, titled "Day and Night R.A.F. makes Nazis take it !" Six Douglas DB-7/A-20 Havoc attack bomber aircraft (American made, but ordered by Britain) take off from England and are seen flying in formation over the English Channel. A-20 Havocs approach beach. A-20 Havocs over French countryside. Point of view footage looking out from cockpit of airplanes flying low over French countryside and approaching German held industrial and chemical plants in Lille making German munitions. View of bombardier pulling bomb release trigger, followed by bombs away view. Damage done by bombing seen. Port and buildings being bombed by A-20 bombers at St. Malo. Explosions seen in dock areas from the air. Back in England, RAF pilots suit-up in cold weather gear for night bombing flights over Germany. View of a line of carrier pigeons each in a box, to be carried in each plane and released if the pilot gets in trouble. A pilot carrying a pigeon in a box. Bomber crews consult together at their planes before boarding. U.S. airmen being trained join together with RAF flyers and board Avro Lancaster bombers for the night raids. Lancaster bombers taxi and takeoff. Halifax III taxiing and taking off. Hawker Hurricane or Spitfire fighters seen in flight ready to engage Nazi fighters. Views of actual bombing raid on a German city by Lancaster bombers. Incoming flak and anti-aircraft fire. Explosions on ground over targets in Germany. [Note: Interestingly, the film uses shots of a German Junkers 88 bomber, instead of a Lancaster, to illustrate the nose of the aircraft at night.]
WAACS start Army training in Des Moines, Iowa, in World War II.
WAACS begin their first day with the corps during World War 2. Women exit a clothing warehouse carrying bags of clothing. Women officers of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs), seen wearing uniforms. Beds in a row in a barracks during inspection. Two women officers shaking hands. Women stand in line to go into the mess hall. Women officers eating and drinking in the mess hall, including African American women who eat at racially segregated tables. Women stand at attention outside in rows. They march together in line.
Views of Tehran, when Iran was the "Persian Corridor" for American Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union in World War II
Opening scene is of ordinary day in teheran, Iran, during World War 2. A horse and wagon sits quietly in shade at edge of a traffic circle centered on monument topped with a statue of Reza Shah Pahlavi . A U.S. Army truck, displaying a white star, and a jeep, drive by on the nearby roadway. A horse-drawn wagon passes at edge of toad. A military truck drives around the road closest to the statue of Reza Shah Pahlavi . Closeups of the statue. Change of scene shows an official-looking modern building, with a guard at its open gate. A sculpture above the gate depicts a crown flanked by two lions. Several pedestrians pass by casually on the road and sidewalk. The pedestrian women include some in Western dress and ant least one with head modestly covered. View through the open gate shows a circular drive around a garden and a large building behind it. Two military officers walk out the gate. One wears a steel helmet. They pass the guard standing by his booth. Street scenes showing a modern building and light traffic, including another American jeep, a horse-drawn wagon, a car and a bus. Several multistory apartment buildings. View looking down on a horse-drawn cart moving along a tree-lined city street.
Hitler Youth play games on beach of Baltic Sea near annexed Polish farms
Hitler Youth playing games after a day's work on annexed Polish farm land. They run towards water at a beach. World War 2 era Hitler Youth enjoy splashing water at each other. They play various games on beach including tossing one another along a line of interlinked arms, another game where a standing boy is spun around in a circle by seated boys, and a human wheelbarrow race across the sand toward three apples lying on the sand.
German Oberstleutnant Baron Friedrich August von der Heydte placed in U.S. ambulance after surrendering in World War II
German Paratroop Commander, Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Baron Friedrich August von der Heydte is seen following his surrender to U.S. forces at Monschau, Germany, during World War 2. He has a bandaged right arm, injured when he led a contingent of paratroopers in a nighttime drop during German Operation Stösser. He is being carried on a stretcher and placed aboard a U.S. Army field ambulance. ( Note: Von der Heydte commanded German paratroopers in the ill-fated parachute landings of Operation Stösser, on the Hautes Fagnes, Belgium, during the Ardennes counter-offensive. After attempting, for a couple of days, to return to German lines,through thickly forested area, the exhausted Von der Heydte gave himself up to the Americans at Monschau, Germany.)
U.S. Army 9th Air Force planes strafe German positions and The 104th Division enters Eschweiler and smaller villages in Germany.
Activities of American First Army during offensive into Germany in World War 2. U.S. Army Air Force 9th Air Force planes strafe German positions near the town of Stolberg, then U.S. Army troops attack with machine guns (view from machine gun being fired at houses), heavy guns like the self-propelled 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage M12; and massed American 3rd Armored Division tanks acting as artillery in attacking Stolberg. Civilian refugees seen removing their belongings out of the battered city. An American soldier guards a German POW who assists a civilian in moving a loaded cart down a street. View of collapsed building and wreckage after the attack as Stolberg is cleared by forces of the U.S. Army 104th Division, facing booby traps and mines. U.S. forces blast structures that could not be safely cleared. After two weeks of attack, the American flag raised in the city. The 104th Division enters Eschweiler and smaller villages; mined buildings are detonated as tanks move through the towns. Mop up operations last two days as German snipers are cleared. Captured German prisoners are led through the town under U.S. Army guard. U.S. Infantry troops ride on tanks on streets of city. Soldiers carrying bedding walk on street on way to a dry night's sleep. Roadblocks are cleared by U.S. Engineer battalions, including an overhead bridge blown-up by retreating Germans. Units of the 104th Infantry and 3rd Armored division continue eastward and are seen fighting German forces in Weisweiler.
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