Pilots of the United States Army Air Force 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, board their P-51D aircraft, for a mission against German targets, during World War II. They are operating from a bombed out captured German airfield, near the end of the War in Europe. Major L.K. Brueland is seen in cockpit of his airplane as he taxis with the canopy open, making his way between obstructions on the ramp. His aircraft displays 14 and one half swastikas. Another pilot climbs aboard his P-51D, as a photographer stands on the nose of the aircraft. His airplane has 16 German crosses (not swastikas ) painted on it. Crew chief cleans his canopy. He taxis out with canopy closed.
American ground crew delivers ammunition in a captured German commercial truck, painted tomato red. "Tomato Juice" is painted on side of the truck (in German).They drive and stop near a parked P-51 aircraft, where they get out and remove ammunition boxes from the back of the truck. They set the ammunition boxes down near P-51 plane.
U.S. ground crewmen open ammunition boxes near a P-51 plane and take out belted 50 caliber ammunition. They then get into a captured tomato-colored German truck bearing the words "Tomato Juice" (in German) on its side. They drive away in the truck.
Various World War I planes (mostly German). Fokker D-7s and Fokker DR1. German seaplane. British tri-wing bomber with "RAEWAR Mark II" on its nose section. German Zeppelin Staaken R.VI bomber, with Fokker fighter plane parked under its wing. A German bi-wing bomber in flight.
German civil aircraft and aviation advances of the era following World War I. Names painted on the aircraft include: Junker; LuftHansa; D-Oran; D-ubir; D-uxyn and Potyguar. A sea plane lands. Dornier Do-X 3 seaplane in flight. A 4-propeller plane with 4 D-2500 stenciled on it. A German FW-200, Condor transport plane on airstrip. Soldiers stand around it. A Condor in flight.
German aircraft of WW 2. A German Heinkel 100 prototype fighter takes off, with rocket assist. (The smoke is visible only as it passes dark trees in background.) The aircraft retracts landing gear and makes high speed pass over the Airfield. Two Messerschmitt Me 109s fly low over the Airfield. Focke-Wulf Fw 190 parked on grass with engine running. Pair of FW-190s make formation takeoff. Me-109s, Ju-87's and FW-190s in various formations and maneuvers. A Junkers 188 with Technician working on it, then making a high speed pass and climb. A Focke Wulf 200 Condor Taxis by through puddles.
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