Gun camera footage from a P-51D fighter plane of the USAAF 357th Fighter Group, 364th Fighter Squadron, stationed at RAF Leiston. This one is being flown by Lieutenant Dale E. Karger on 5 December, 1944. Camera shows Karger's aircraft tracking and firing at a German Focke Wulf Fw-190 aircraft flying below him. His rounds strike the FW-190 and it bursts into flames and falls toward the ground. (Note: This shows one of two Fw-190s Karger shot down this day. They were his first aerial victories. He went on to finish his tour with credit for 7.5 downed German aircraft.)
Enemy targets are attacked by a U.S. aircraft on 5th December 1944 in the European Theater during World War Two. A U.S. aircraft of 8th Air Force is piloted by 1st Lieutenant E.W. Farmsworth of 384th Fighter Group. The aircraft fires on FW 190A fighter and scores hits, FW190A catches fire; gun-camera footage also documents Farmsworth's strafing attack on an enemy locomotive.
A German FW 190 A fighter plane is attacked by a U.S. fighter plane on 5th December 1944 in the European Theater during World War II. The U.S. aircraft of 8th Air Force was piloted by 2nd Lieutenant J.L. McCubbin of 385th Squadron, 364th Fighter Group. The Fw 190A is seen to take hits, catch fire and burn at high speed.
Eva Braun’s parents Friedrich Braun (Fritz) and Franziska (Fanny), leaving the Berghof with one of the Scottish terriers. Behind them are their daughters Ilse and Eva Braun with two children of Herta Schneider. The Berghof is camouflaged, implying the footage is from the summer of 1944.
Allied invasion of France during World War II. 4,000 Allied ships underway at sea towards the Cherbourg peninsula. Allied soldiers move down a net onto landing crafts on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Allied planes bombard the area and Naval artillery fires heavily. Scenes of various Allied Soldiers landing at Normandy beaches, including U.S. Army forces and British and Canadian forces. (Canadian forces landing at Juno Beach.) Troops wade through water. German assault from gun emplacements kills Allied soldiers during landing. Dead U.S. Army soldiers on the beach. Wounded soldiers provided medical aid by. German Prisoners of War marched away. A french man carries a U.S. flag near a group of U.S. soldiers at the "BERNIERES" station in the town of Bernières. Allied aircraft drop bombs over bridges and explosions occur. Heavier military equipment moved in by Allies. Allied troops advance in various towns of France. Captured German equipment piled up high. Supreme Commander General Eisenhower visits the area and is seen together with General Bradley and British Field Marshal Montgomery.
Opening scene behind introductory writing, shows U.S. troops climbing down from a landing craft and walking towards a beach during Normandy invasion of World war 2. Date is D-Day +3 (June 9, 1944) and allies are setting up logistic resupply operations. Views across beach at extreme low tide. A cluster of DUKW amphibious vehicles sitting on the sand, below some cliffs. Some buildings of the French village of Arromanches-les-Bainsin background. Closeup of a demolished French dwelling at base of cliff. Two U.S. soldiers walk along a road at the waterfront, where steel barriers that have been removed from the beach, are piled up. Closeup of the steel barriers. An M4 Sherman tank, equipped with deep wading gear is seen mired in the sand. A closeup of U.S. Landing Craft Tank (LCT-25) on the beach with an M3A1 Half-Track destroyed on its offramp. It had been hit by shell fire on D-day, setting other half-tracks and the landing craft afire. Closeup of the destroyed halftrack.
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