Wiley Hardeman Post points at names of countries written on Winnie Mae (Lockheed Vega Aircraft). Wiley Post with other German men. Aircraft Winnie Mae taxis to halt. Wiley Hardeman Post comes out of the cockpit of Winnie Mae aircraft.
Euler Triplane in flight. Pile of wrecked German aircraft and Siemens-Schuckert R-VIII giant bomber.
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes (with bubble canopies) of U.S. Army Air Corps 365th Fighter Group, on parking ramp at airfield (Y-34) in Metz, France. Extensive damage seen to hangars and structures around the parking area. Pilot climbs out of P-47 cockpit, smokes cigarette and talks.
Ruins of a German town in World War II. U.S. ARmy truck convoy driving through ruined town. American soldier on motorbike talks with another U.S. Army soldier. Ruined buildings and rubble in town from heavy bombardment by Allied forces. American soldiers on streets. Various bomb damaged buildings. Destruction and bomb craters in a graveyard or cemetery, and a cross topped tomb stone seen amidst the rubble and devastation.
Gun camera footage from a P-51D fighter plane of the USAAF 357th Fighter Group, 364th Fighter Squadron, stationed at RAF Leiston. This one is being flown by Lieutenant Dale E. Karger on 5 December, 1944. Camera shows Karger's aircraft tracking and firing at a German Focke Wulf Fw-190 aircraft flying below him. His rounds strike the FW-190 and it bursts into flames and falls toward the ground. (Note: This shows one of two Fw-190s Karger shot down this day. They were his first aerial victories. He went on to finish his tour with credit for 7.5 downed German aircraft.)
Adolf Hitler has tea, at Christmas time, with children, in the Mooslahnerkopf tea house, near his home, the Berghof, in Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. Children, Nazi German officers and women around a Christmas tree decorated with ribbons and real flaming candles. Women open presents. Hitler helps the children write on a slate. During World War 2.
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