Allied aircraft in flight and dropping shells toward enemy targets. Explosions on the ground seen from the air as bombs hit targets. Gun camera footage of Allied aircraft attacking and strafing parked German aircraft, roads, and railroads. Newspaper headline announcing Allies penetrating further into Germany. U.S. Army soldiers advancing on foot. U.S. soldiers firing artillery. Artillery in action, explosion can be seen.
Camouflage is removed and German Ju 87 Stuka aircraft and Junkers bomber aircraft are seen being armed in Germany during World War 2. Closeup view of nose of Stuka. Stuka aircraft taxiing. Symbol on the wing of a plane. Foliage camouflage removed from Junkers bomber aircraft and bombs are loaded into bomber aircraft. Stuka aircraft and bomber aircraft prepare for mission to bomb United Kingdom and are seen taxiing on airfield. Aerial views from a plane of other German bombers and Stuka fighters accompanying. German Pilot and co-pilot in the plane. The planes bombing multiple targets in England. Views of German crews smiling after bombing British targets, and returning back to base.
Lieutenant Willruth of 335 Squadron, 4th Fighter Group,8th Air Force, engages German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft flying low over mountainous area in Germany. Seen via gun camera footage, from his North American P-51 Mustang airplane, gunfire hits the Bf-109 which starts smoking. At TC:00:18, the German pilot bails out. The aircraft goes out of control, catches fire and crashes. The gun camera continues to record, showing another encounter with a German fighter plane. As it is struck by gunfire, it rolls over and descends trailing white smoke. An explosive flash occurs and the German airplane free falls straight down into forest below, leaving a wide trail of white smoke. (World War II period).
Allied military in Germany after World War II. German General Hans-Ulrich Rudel, ace German Air Force Ju-87, Stuka dive bomber pilot, meets American officers. He appears to have lost a leg and walks with crutches in a garden with his aide and American military officials. They sit on chairs and talk. Numerous medals and awards displayed on General Rudel's uniform.
Allied military in Germany after World War II. High ranking German prisoners move into a C-47 aircraft. Among the prisoners are German ace General Adolf Galland, ace German Luftwaffe pilot Hans-Ulrich Von Rudel and other officials. Officials smiling and talking with each other. General Von Rudel with one leg (peg on the other) walks using calipers.
Germany after Allied military forces take over at close of World War II. Destroyed railway marshaling yard after the bombardment by Allied bombers. Wrecked freight wagons carry a destroyed camouflaged car. Wrecked equipment and railroad tracks mangled by bomb explosions. Destroyed fuselage of a German warplane on a wrecked freight car. Swastika on wrecked Nazi airplanes.
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