Gun camera footage aboard the P-38 Lightning aircraft of Lieutenant Fritsch, 44th Fighter Squadron, U.S. 13th Air Force, shows another P-38 from his squadron in flight ahead of him. The scene then shifts to view from his P-38 camera of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber in distress. The bomber crew bails out. Several of their parachutes are seen opening. Lt. Fritsch then proceeds to fire on the abandoned B-24. Tracers can be seen as Lt. Fritsch fires at the bomber.. Then smoke is seen rising from water where the bomber crashed.
U.S. soldiers pour sand into large metal barrels at an airbase in the Philippines. U.S. soldiers in a group. Some soldiers have buckets in their hands. Soldiers pours sand from buckets into barrels. Another soldier mixes by hand atop the barrel. A third soldier in each group moves a stirring arm on the barrel. Likely they are mixing concrete.
U.S. Army Air Force planes drop bombs in Philippines during World War II. War wrecked Japanese enemy installation on a river in Philippines. A plane drops bombs. Aerial view of the terrain showing a river flowing through the city. Smoke rises as the bombs hit the ground. A ship in water. An aircraft drops a bomb which misses the target and falls in the water near the ship. Explosion as the bomb hits the water. Aerial view of the terrain.
Armorers work on P-47N Thunderbolts of the 464th Fighter Squadron, 507th Fighter Group, on Ie Shima Airfield, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. The unit was targeting Kyushu, Japan, near end of World War 2. Airmen near P-47s. Airman on the wing of a plane. Another walks nearby. Gun camera footage shot inflight and aerial views of return to Ie Shima, including the landing rollout.
P-47 aircraft of U.S. Army Air Forces 464th Fighter Squadron, 507th Fighter Group, strafe a town on Kyushu Island, Japan at the end of World War 2. Aerial view of a town. Places in town on fire. Thick black smoke rises.
Shirtless U.S. Army Air Forces ground crew members refuel a 464th Fighter Squadron, 507th Fighter Group, P-47N airplane, on Ie Shima Island, Ryukyu Islands, preparing to attack Kyushu, in final days of World War 2. Picture of a girl and the words 'Winkie Jean' painted on the nose of the P-47.
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