U.S. Navy airships guard convoy in Atlantic in World War 2. Several K- type airships on ground at Lakehurst New Jersey. Bombs loaded aboard. Pilots get signal from control tower. The airships in flight. Airships keep a vigil. Navy airships patrol for German submarines. Coordination between Convoy Commander, escort vessels and planes. Bomb bay open and bombs dropping into ocean. . Convoy Vessels underway.
Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran and his family at the Niavaran Palace (Tehran Province Tehran District 1 Niavaran St, Niavaran Square, Iran) in Tehran. Reza Shah Pahlavi, Queen Fawzia and their three-year-old daughter Shahnaz Pahlavi strolling in the palace grounds. Trees lined on side of the road. The daughter plays with their pet Pekingese dog. The Iranian Royal family poses for a photograph.
U.S. P-47 fighter aircraft escort B-17 bombers of the Eighth Air Force in flight over Germany. Gun camera captures straffing attack against German locomotive on tracks. U.S. aircraft and German planes fight air battle. Aerial gun camera footage shows U.S. aircraft shoot down German Luftwaffe airplanes. German planes under fire and some exploding in mid-air. German planes catch fire and fall from the sky.
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt with Prime Minister of Britain Winston Churchill at the Sphinx in Egypt, and later, at a meeting with Turkey's President Mustafa Ismet Inonu. Later President Roosevelt reviews 7th Army in Sicily, from a jeep. He is accompanied by General Eisenhower, who sits in back of jeep next to Presidential Assistant, Harry Hopkins. President Roosevelt decorates General Mark Clark and five of his officers. General Clark receives the Distinguished Service Cross A man takes photographs. Seventh Army Troops march past. President Roosevelt and General Eisenhower eat a picnic lunch in a staff car with the doors open. President Roosevelt seated with his sons, Elliot and Franklin, Jr.
German cargo glider in flight. Trees in view. The glider lands on beach and taxis. German troops rush towards it. Another cargo glider lands and taxis. The cargo glider is unloaded. German troops with the supplies, including German NSU Kettenkrad HK 101 Tracked Motorcycles during World War II.
Axis defensive operations against Allied forces during the Italian campaign of World War 2. German Air Force Junkers Ju-52 transport planes take off from their base in Messina, Sicily, carrying members of their 1st Parachute Division to bolster defenses against the Allies who have begun amphibious landings in the South, during Operation Husky. A Closeup aerial view in a formation of Ju-52s flying low over water. Glimpse of German paratroopers inside one of the planes. View from below of paratroopers jumping from their planes, and their chutes descending over hilly terrain. But they are seen landing in fields, as the formation of transport planes flies away overhead. View from the ground of German Heinkel He 111 H-20/R1 aircraft dropping paratroopers, whose chutes are seen descending and landing in hilly terrain. Military equipment being dropped by parachute. The German paratroops gathering up their gear and heading to join their comrades. One is seen sipping fresh water from a mountain stream. View from the German positions of British and American positions being shelled by German artillery. German parachute infantry moving through sandy areas and underbrush. View from inside a German bunker. German artilleryman directing fire from a heavy field gun. German artillery putting up strong defense near Mt. Etna. British soldiers taken prisoners of war. German gunners, some stripped to the waist, firing heavy guns against British and American troops.
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