The 8th Fighter Command Operations, European Theater. 30-June-1944; Lieutenant Eluhom of 352nd squadron 353rd fighter group flies the aircraft. High altitude view of the target area. Strafing of railroad terminal, trucks, targets in thicket area. Fires from hit. Smoke arises from bombing. (World War II period).
The Operations of the 8th Fighter Command in the European Theater. 30-May-1944; 2nd Lieutenant T S Sharp of 334th squadron 4th fighter group flying the aircraft. Attacking the ground targets. High altitude view of the area. Crash landing of ME-109. Strafing of ME-109 on ramp. Strafing of a group of FW-190 on ramp. Smoke arises. Hangar and trees in the background. (World War II period).
The Operations of the 8th Fighter Command in the European Theater. 30-May-1944; Lieutenant Herfurth of 352nd squadron 353rd fighter group flying the aircraft. Attacking the ground targets. High altitude view of the area. Aircraft in flight. Strafing of the railroad bridge. Flak tower in the foreground. Trees and houses. Strafing of marshaling yard, locomotives. Explosion of the locomotive. Smoke arises. (World War II period).
The Operations of the 8th Fighter Command in the European Theater. 30-May-1944; 1st Lieutenant L K Carson of 362nd squadron 357th fighter group flying the aircraft. Attacking an ME-410. High altitude view of the area. Junkers 188 in flight. Aircraft flies low over the ground and the forest area. It crashes at the edge of the forest area and explodes. (World War II period).
Preparations in year 1943 for the June 1944 invasion of Western Europe by Allied Force during World War 2. Conference at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in London. U.S. Generals George Marshall, Henry H. Arnold and British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery meet at SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force). Montage of war scenes: British Lancaster bombers taking off. Monitors working in a British Command Post. U.S. B-17 bombers in daylight missions over Germany. Allied pilots and crew members in aircraft. B-17 aircraft at high altitudes leaving contrails behind. Bombs bursting on German industrial targets. Allied agents being airdropped over France. Allied one-man submarines or solo submarines, torpedo boats and Commandos sampling French beaches and soil conditions in the Normandy region for ability to support 30-ton tanks for the invasion of France. British airman loading reconnaissance camera into a British Spitfire reconnaissance aircraft for photographing the planned invasion region. Arms and equipment being air dropped to indigenous resistance forces in Nazi-occupied Europe. Mulberry floating harbor segments being designed and built to create invasion ports. Allied landing craft training in Devon, England. Allied aircraft strafing a German ship. Meteorological equipment assessing weather along the invasion coast. Wire netting to pave the beaches. Underwater pipelines to carry gasoline or petrol to France. Allied armored vehicles bearing the White Star. Troops being inoculated or vaccinated. Newly built ship going down the ways at an Allied ship yard that builds Navy warships. View of British intelligence officers with headsets at radio equipment, and personnel monitoring German broadcasts. Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran, where the Big Three are seen meeting at Tehran Conference to finalize invasion plans. Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill sitting on the porch of the Embassy building, in 1943. General Eisenhower and Allied Military leaders planning the D-Day invasion. General Omar Bradley, sitting with a British admiral. General Bernard Law Montgomery Aerial view of formation of U.S. Army Air Force B-17 aircraft, flying through Flak bursts. Pilots in B-17 cockpit .Bombs striking German targets. Polish, Scenes including gun camera footage of Czech, and British in Spitfire aircraft striking German railroads and marshaling yards. B-26 bombers and gunner attacking German Luftwaffe Me-109 aircraft.
A ceremony at a military cemetery near the site of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France(6th June 1944) to mark the 30th anniversary of the D-Day. British and French Army units parade. Gravestones and memorials in the foreground. Spectators stand holding flags. The troops salute. French President Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing lights a flame with others.
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