A munitions and armament factory in Germany during World War II. Interior of the factory. Men work to produce war equipment and materiel. The production of gun barrels is seen, for large land based guns and artillery or for naval warship guns. Forging, shaping, and cutting tools at work during military buildup and re-militarization of Germany.
Interior of a war materiel factory in Germany early in World War 2. Men work to produce war equipment, including rifles. Men on an assembly line producing German rifles. Scenes showing new rifle stocks and rifle barrels being assembled. A man inspects a gun barrel and gun sight. Scenes of German men working to produce war materiel during Germany's remilitarization.
U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers strike targets in Germany near the end of World War 2. Formation of USAAF B-17 bombers in flight over Germany, as viewed from ball turret of another B-17. The B-17s display checkered tails of the 385th Bombardment Group, stationed at RAF Great Ashfield, England. There is some camera movement that soon focuses on bombs away view and bombs falling from the B-17s. Some incendiary bombs are seen streaming white smoke (possibly M-17 or M-19 incendiaries). Numerous flames erupt simultaneously as clusters of indendiary bombs ignite on contact with the ground. Camera rotates around during filming as the ball turret rotates. White smoke rises from the ground.
Activities of 8th Fighter Air Force Command in Germany during World War II. United States aircraft in flight. They target transportation system in Germany and destroy rail tracks and roads. An explosion on a German train on a railroad. Burning freight trains. U.S. airplanes drop bombs on German vessels in a canal. A German flag tower, radio and radar bases, trucks carrying ammunition and supplies are destroyed by United States aircraft.
Scenes in Germany immediately after end of World War Two in Europe. Bomb damaged buildings in Germany. Heaps of debris lying on the ground. German civilians walk along the ruins. An archway of a bomb damaged building. Rubble on a street.
March and April, 1945. Near the end of World War 2, P-47s of the U.S. 9th and 8th Air Forces attacking ground targets in Germany. They strafe various ground targets virtually at will. One chases a German Me-109. Rapid succession of identifying slates and fragments of gun camera footage. The first involves P-47 of the 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 378th Fighter Squadron, operating out of Frankfurt, Rhein Main Airbase (Y-73) Germany. Others involve the 8th Air Force, P-51s of the 338th Fighter Squadron and possibly other units.
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