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Scenes showing some of the earliest aircraft in the first decade of human heavier-than-air flight
Mankind's earliest attempts at achieving heavier-than-air flight, and footage of early and historic flight and aircraft. Animated film clip showing imaginary rocket in flight. View from an airplane taking off with other aircraft and terminal buildings seen outside. A caption reading "We can fly." Views from airplane windows of scenes below, including a town, bodies of water, Alpine lodges, and snow-covered mountains. (Views are from a Ju52 passenger plane, the corrugated wings, of which are seen.) Some views are out of the small round port window of the airplane. Sequence shifts to film reenactment of Otto Lilienthal setting up one of his early ornithopter-like gliders (looks like early hang glider), and running downhill to launch it (circa 1895). A still photo of Lilienthal aloft in one of his gliders. View of German Karl Jatho's airplane, circa 1903. The American Wright brothers airplane being started and taking off. The Wright Flyer airplane in flight. The Voisin-Farman I airplane in flight. it was built by Frenchman Gabriel Voisin and flown by aviator Henri Farman in 1907. Danish inventor-engineer,Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer, in his airplane, 1906. Louis Bleriot inspects his airplane, circa 1909. A pilot (not Bleriot) sits cockpit of a Bleriot airplane with engine running. He taxis and takes off.A biplane built by Gabriel Voisin in flight, circa 1909. A light monoplane built by German aviator,Hans Grade,takes off, flies a while, and lands again,at an air show in 1909. The pilot crawls out of the airplane.Photograph of The Etrich Taube (AKA Rumpler Taube) monoplane,in flight. It was designed in 1909 by Igo Etrich of Austria-Hungary, and first flown in 1910.
Allied troops including U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit Merrill's Marauders battle enemy in Myitkyina, Burma.
A military film report on the advance of members of U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders towards Myitkyina, Burma for its capture during World War II. Merrill's Marauders on the top of a hill overlooking Myitkyina. Glider reinforcement operations show U.S. Army Air Force airplanes towing gliders over Myitkyina. Gliders and transport airplanes being attacked during landings. Allied troops and Merrill's Marauders advance and fire guns toward Japanese troops. Soldiers fire machine guns. Fighter airplanes in flight overhead. Artillery is fired.
German military car, Howitzers, and soldiers come out of a Go-242 after landing (WW2)
A German Gotha Go-242 transport glider lands in snow-covered airfield during World War II. Another Go-242 is seen parked nearby. Rear of one of the Go-242 gliders opens. German Soldiers jump out of the glider. The pair of soldiers place wooden planks over which the four-passenger military car comes out. The military car drives in the snow. German soldiers in process of putting down planks over the rear of another Go-242. Soldiers pull out the 105mm type Howitzer from the Go-242. A group of fully armed German soldiers jumps out of an already landed Go-242. The soldiers run and lie in prone positions in the snow. The camera follows them as they continue to run.
American soldiers unload and transport supplies at RAF Newbury in England (WW2)
U.S. Army troops unload supplies from a United States Army glider at RAF Newbury in Berkshire, England during World War II. The soldiers place boxes of supplies on the back of a cart. A Jeep towing a cart drives past a glider “Nancy the Third”. A Jeep drives, towing a cart away from the glider. The soldiers pick up supplies and unload them from the cart. Military Jeeps and vehicles driving on forested road.
Barrage from allied warships at shores of Normandy and allied aircraft take off for D-Day invasion of France, World War II.
Allied ships in the English Channel fire at German fortifications on French coast to soften up defenses at start of D-Day Invasion. Views of large guns on many ships firing toward shore. Discarded shells are seen on board the deck of the ship. United States gliders and C-47 aircrafts on field in Britain. Gliders being towed along the field for take off. View of U.S. Army soldiers leaving troop carriers and boarding landing crafts (LST) for Invasion of Normandy beaches. G.I.s climb down landing nets and board a landing craft. Allied bombers overhead flying toward Normandy targets. Smoke emerges from the sinking United States destroyer USS Corry (DD-463) off the shore of Utah Beach near Iles Saint-Marcouf.
German prisoner (German POW) explains captured artillery to American captor in France during World War 2
German prisoner of war talks about captured artillery pieces to a U.S. Army soldier in France during World War II. In a separate scene, two U.S. Army soldiers enter through the door of a United States glider in a field. Views of the soldiers inside the glider as they examine the cockpit contents, search for information, and remove some papers from the seat back. Additional footage follows of the German POW explaining captured German artillery pieces to the American soldier.
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