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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.)
A large crowd gathers for the funeral of Gestapo official, Reinhard Heydrich in Prague
The funeral of German SS Officer and Gestapo official, Reinhard Heydrich in Prague-Libeň, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Prague, Czech Republic). Exterior view of the Church of Our Lady before Týn. A large crowd gathers in Old Town Square for the funeral. Citizens stand and sit, crowded atop the Jan Hus Memorial. A man at a dais addresses the crowd. A Nazi logo in the background of the dais. Buildings in the background. Dignitaries attend the funeral.
Romanian Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu inspects Romanian Forces in Ukraine
Romanian Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu, accompanied by high ranking officers, inspects Romanian troops and operations near Sevastopol in World War II. A map of Europe, showing central Ukrainian area and Crimea. Romanian infantry and tanks ascend a steep hills to occupy strategic positions. A monastery occupied by the military at an extreme high point, overlooking the Black Sea. A communications tower at the site.
German artillery fired and bombing at installations in Southeastern Russia on the Eastern Front of World War II.
The Eastern Front of World War II. German soldiers load and fire artillery in Southeastern Russia. Many soldiers naked from waist up due to the heat. Grasslands and mountains in the background. Few soldiers in tunnels. Soldiers holding guns walk through woods. Barbed wires seen. Massive explosions. German infantry advances. German Messerschmitt bombers take off on bombing mission. Aircraft in flight. Pilot at controls. Bombs dropping on the enemy targets..
Nazi leader Dr. Joseph Goebbels visits General Model on Western front. He also addresses German workers in Cologne
Nazi German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels visits Field Marshal Walter Model on the Western Front during World War II. A staff car driving on a road, likely in Oosterbeek near Arnhem, Netherlands. Joseph Goebbels shakes hands with Marshal Model upon arrival at the latter’s headquarters. Marshal Model performs the Hitler Salute. Other visitors saluted back. A Nazi SS soldier stands guard, watching the arrival of Goebbels. Other officers perform the Nazi salute. Joseph Goebbels and Marshal Model greet each other with the Nazi salute. Goebbels returns to his staff car camouflaged with pine branches. Goebbels talks to Marshal Model before leaving Model’s headquarters. In another sequence, Nazi German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels visits an armaments factory in Germany. Sign on the wall reads ‘Front und Heimat keen nur ein Ziel: Kampf bis zum Sieg!’ (‘Front and home have only one goal: fight to victory!’ in English). More Nazi factory signs reads ‘Unerschütterlich Kampfentschlossen Siegesgewiss!’ (‘Unshakable, determined to fight, certain to win!’) and ‘Mit dem Führer zum Sieg!’ (‘With the Führer to victory!’). Armaments workers perform the Nazi salute inside the factory. A Nazi German standard with the German name of Cologne ‘Köln’. Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech in front of German factory workers. Crowds of German factory workers and Nazi officers, including young men and women, listen to Goebbel’s speech. Goebbels gives encouragement to the workers during his speech. Goebbels talks about the war’s progress and Nazi Germany’s allies, such as Romania. He thanks them for their efforts. Goebbels ended his speech to the enthusiastic applause from the audience. The crowds began to sing a patriotic Nazi song, likely the Horst Wessel song. A Nazi standard representing ‘Rhein’.
U.S. soldiers wash and dry clothes in a mobile laundry in Maryland, United States.
U.S. soldiers demonstrate a mobile laundry developed by Quartermaster Corps for the troops in field. A mobile laundry truck passes through a forest in Maryland, United States. It is parked near a pond. Two soldiers put a landing gear on the ground so that a container may rest on it. Two soldiers set the corner stand jack. The trailer is uncoupled and the prime mover is camouflaged under a tree. Four soldiers set up the laundry machine. The soldiers connect a pipe from the machine to the pond. Two soldiers setting up a water pump. The soldiers unloading laundry from a truck. A soldier puts on the washing machine. A soldiers loads the machine with clothes. A soldier takes out the clothes from the centrifugal drier. Two soldiers take out dry clean cloths. Some soldiers pack the clean cloths. A truck filled with the clean clothes leaves. (World War II period).