United States airmen wearing Mae Wests (life jackets) walk towards a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft during World War II. Crew members board the aircraft parked on a runway. The airmen get inside the aircraft with equipment. A pilot seated in the cockpit. Two airmen converse with each other. An army jeep in the background. One of them wears an identification bracelet. The pilot pins a memento inside the cockpit and looks out of the window. He speaks to one of the ground crew member.
Gun camera shot near the end of World War Two in Europe. P-47 from U.S. 9th Air Force, 362nd Fighter Group, 378th Fighter Squadron, pilot: Gudebski, seen interdicting lines of communication in various places, mostly hitting military traffic moving on roads.
U.S.Army Air Corps P-47s with engines running, taxiing our for takeoff. Army personnel in Runway control unit with signal light.(Few seconds of film reversed.) Among the aircraft seen is P-47D, number 42-28543 named “Pat” piloted by Capt. Gordon S Stevens,of Smithfield,North Carolina, of the 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, stationed in England.(He was killed in action, 18 September 1944.) Views of the P-47s enroute to join up with B-17 bomber formations. P-51s and P-38s taking off. P-51s inflight to relieve P-47s of escort duty.US pilot with mission profile inked on back of his hand. Narrator (Ronald Reagan?) describes the way successive relays of U.S. fighters relieved each other performing bomber escort duties. Scenes from captured German film shows alarm sounding and German fighter pilots scrambling in Me-109s and FW-190s to intercept the U.S. bombers. Escorting U.S. P-51s jettison their long range drop tanks preparing to meet attacking German interceptors. Gun camera footage shows many German fighters being destroyed.P-47s, P-51s and P-38s firing their guns. Several Me-109s in formation. German gun camera clip showing many B-17s being shot to pieces by 22mm gunfire and falling, often in flames.
United States fighter aircraft in flight above clouds over Gernany near end of World War II in Europe. An aircraft drops bomb over German targets at night. Explosions on the ground. Aerial view of green fields. Smoke rises from bombed areas. Aerial view of a flowing river.Gun camera footage from U.S. fighter aircraft strafing railroad trains, and other targets unopposed near the end of World War Two in Europe.
Allied aircraft exercise air superiority near end of World War II. United States aircraft strafe German targets at dusk. Burning German aircraft on the ground. United States Army Air Force P-51 Mustangs in flight with the sun setting in the background. German ME-109 aircraft being hit by U.S. aircraft.
Air operations near end of World War Ii in Europe. United States Army Air Force P-51 Mustangs aircraft strafe German targets on the ground. Smoke rises from the bombed areas. Explosions on German buildings. Aerial view of bomb damaged buildings.
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