German aircraft of WW 2. A German Heinkel 100 prototype fighter takes off, with rocket assist. (The smoke is visible only as it passes dark trees in background.) The aircraft retracts landing gear and makes high speed pass over the Airfield. Two Messerschmitt Me 109s fly low over the Airfield. Focke-Wulf Fw 190 parked on grass with engine running. Pair of FW-190s make formation takeoff. Me-109s, Ju-87's and FW-190s in various formations and maneuvers. A Junkers 188 with Technician working on it, then making a high speed pass and climb. A Focke Wulf 200 Condor Taxis by through puddles.
German slates refer to the dream of "Northern" people to fly, fulfilled by aircraft development. Scenes from Paris airshow in 1908, when it was a feature of the automobile show that year. Hangars bear names of aircraft companies: Bleriot; Vetze and others, with historic vintage airplanes of the period parked on the grass in front of each. A man plays with a dog in the grass. Spectators are seated in stands set up in the background. Scene shifts to 1935, where a long row of German aircraft are shown parked with engines running. Then it shifts to 1943, during World War 2, with a long line of German Messerschmitt aircraft parked with engines running. An animated map shows air lines of communication emanating from center of Germany and extending throughout Europe. Huge formations of German warplanes are seen in flight.
An animation showing mountain peaks and 20 km marked on a vertical line. Picture of sky with moon and stars. Animation showing distance between moon and earth, 400000 km marked on a straight line plotted between moon and earth. Demonstration of rocket principle in nature using plants. Cotyledons of a seedling is touched from among a pot of seedlings. The cotyledons frees with a jerk.
U.S. Army soldiers on road to Saint Marcouf, after invading Normandy in the D-Day invasion of France during World War 2. Paratroopers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division take German prisoners. A U.S. soldier talks to small French boy and girl. The girl smiles. 101st Airborne troopers display a captured Nazi flag. Allied supplies and reinforcements coming ashore on the Normandy beachheads. German prisoners of war being escorted under guard and loaded aboard USS LCI(L) 584. Disabled USS LCI-30 and some dead U.S. soldiers on the beach.
Aerial view of ruined French towns and villages destroyed by the fighting as Allied forces advance from the beachheads of Normandy to take the port of Cherbourg. U.S. troops moving along the road to Cherbourg. French civilians give refreshments to U.S. troops. U.S. field artillery firing. German troops surrendering under a flag of truce, leaving a fortified building. One of the U.S. soldiers guarding them has a bloodied head and face and wears bandages. U.S. airplanes bomb a fortress at Cherbourg, as Lieutenant General Omar Bradley and Major General Lawton Collins watch. Cherbourg falls to the Allies.
Battle-weary American soldiers attend an open air chuch service by a barn in Normandy. U.S. gunners commence a concerted artillery barrage before tanks and infantry advance toward Saint Lo, France, in World War 2. Various artillery and tanks are seen, including one M4 Sherman Crab Tank (Mine sweeper). P-47s, flying low altitude close support missions, bomb a critical target, and troops move ahead on the way to Saint Lo. Two German soldiers run to surrender. Saint Lo falls. Scenes of the devastation in the city.
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