U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighters during Mariana campaign of World War 2. Depicts some crashes and battle damage to aircraft on Aslito Airfield (Isley Field) Saipan in Mariana Islands. Opening scene shows P-47D number 43-25324 "Bouncin Bette" of the 19th Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group, with severe battle damage from a Japanese 40mm Flak round. This plane was damaged on a raid over Pagan Islands. Mechanics checking over the plane and removing a damaged wing section from it. View across island showing huge crater at a crash site. Huge crowd of U.S. military personnel kept well back from the scene, in the background. Stretcher bearers running out and placing the dead pilot onto the stretcher. Scattered plane and a piece of engineering equipment which the plane crashed into showing the remains of both plane and the engineering equipment. Firemen fighting the fire on burning U.S. Navy FM-2 WIldcat aircraft. that crashed. Several men throwing dirt with shovels onto the burning remains of the plane. Men attending memorial services for lost pilots. Two P-47s buzzing the airfield. P-61 aircraft engines turning over as P-47s making landing. P-61 taking off at dusk. Aerial formation of P-47s buzzing the field at dusk. Aerial formation of four P-47s.
A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 plane is chased and attacked by a U.S. aircraft in the European Theater. The U.S. aircraft of VIII Fighter Command is piloted by Lieutenant Colonel D.C. Schilling of 62nd Squadron. The Bf 109 is chased and fired by tracers. (World War II period).
A German aircraft attacked by a U.S. aircraft in the European Theater during World War Two. The German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane is being attacked by a U.S. aircraft of 8th Fighter Command piloted by Lieutenant J.B. Dickson of 358th Squadron, 355 Fighter Group. A part of the tail section of Messerschmitt Bf 109 is blown away.
Gun camera film from a P-51 Mustang fighter plane of the US Army Air Forces attacking a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft during World War 2. The American fighter plane is piloted by 2nd Lieutenant A. Robertson of 362nd Squadron, 357th Fighter Group. A hit on the on the German aircraft produces a bright flash of explosion.
Gun camera footage of aircraft from 8th Fighter Command iloted by Lieutenant Colonel Rimerman of 352nd Squadron, attacking German enemy targets. Rimerman's aircraft makes several passes over a train and strafes the cars. Multiple explosions seen along with smoke. Aircraft targets and hits a lone truck on a road, and then is seen strafing various motor vehicles and trucks along several sections of roadway.
Enemy targets attacked by U.S. aircraft in World War II. Aircraft of 8th Air Force is piloted by Lieutenant L.B. Francis of 503rd Squadron. Aircraft strafes train, causes hit on one of the cars, large explosion occurs. Aircraft attacks ground target including power line, tower.
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