B-24 aircraft in formation over German target. Sky filled with Flak bursts. Recreated views show aircrew on oxygen at altitude in their respective crew stations inside a B-24. Some scenes, showing gunners firing at a German fighter aircraft, are actually filmed from inside a B-17 (and show B-17 empennage, as viewed from waist gunner position, looking aft). While under attack, one German pilot drops his landing gear to slow down and bails out. Bombs dropping from aircraft and exploding on the German factory at Gotha. Narrator notes that the U.S 392nd and 445th Bomb Groups were decorated for this successful raid. (World War II period).
Two Truckloads of Prussian soldiers drive into the Rhineland city of Koblenz to reinforce it during World War 1. They park near a shuttered Merchant hall and climb down to the street. They assemble and pose for the camera standing around a machine gun set up on the pavement. Scene shifts to view of an old fort partially destroyed.
The airship LZ13 "Hansa," in July 1912, being backed out of her hangar in Hamburg and readied for flight by ground crews . Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin seen with an officer of the crew, in the passenger compartment (called the "Coupé") of the LZ-13. View of the crowds below waving to the Count. A separate sequence, from June , 1909, shows the damaged airship, LZ 5, after she hit a pear tree near Göppingen, on the return leg of a flight from Lake Constance (Bodensee) to Bitterfeld and back.
Red Cross hospital tent area in Munich. Hospital area and company street. Red Cross flag on top of pole. Sign reads 'Ambulance Stop Here'. View of hospital tents. Jeeps and trucks drive past in the foreground. Man on cot in a tent. Sign reads 'Ward A-5'. Row of five parked ambulances. Red Cross tent entrance showing a RC girl walking out.
American Red Cross hospital area in Munich during World War II. Patients are carried out from tents and placed in ambulances on stretchers. Ambulance drives off. Patients are loaded into C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Ambulance pulls off. Aircraft door closes. C-47s taxiing on runway for take off.
U.S. troops removing casualty from aircraft and firing antiaircraft gun in Munich during World War II. Casualty is being removed from B-26 Marauder aircraft and loaded into ambulance. Ambulance drives off. Blood stains and hole inside B-26 aircraft. Gun crew fires an antiaircraft gun.
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