Methods used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War II. German navy officers and sailors gathered in a discussion, with the sailors wearing life vests. German Neger torpedo-carrying miniature submarine, also known as a "human torpedo" is seen hoisted. Camouflaged Neger being transported by a truck trailer along road. An operator getting into Neger. Shows beached Neger. Men around Neger. Neger being released on water. Operator in dome of the Neger. Another German human torpedo goes underwater. Human torpedo performs radical maneuver. Allied ship as seen from human torpedo.
Dramatizes the methods used by Axis powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War II. German Seahund midget submarine on a carrier and hoisted on dockside. Seahund underway at sea. Seahund underwater. Interiors of Seahund with an operator at control and firing of torpedo under sea. Periscope view from Seahund. Seahund surfaces and crewmen on seahund.
Brief view of a memorial wreath from Adolf Hitler inscribed to "My fallen (dead) Comrades." German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, bare headed, carrying a top hat, walking with group of officials after wreath laying at the ceremony. President Paul von Hindenburg, at the same event, accompanied by soldiers, walks along a street, lined with troops and spectators. He holds his Field Marshal's baton, and salutes with it. Several caskets sit on floor of church, surrounded by flags of many military units and organizations. Wreaths on the caskets.
German notables and wealthy people gather upon arrival before the start of horse races at the Berlin-Grunewald race track. All fashionably dressed, men and women socialize. Several women converse with Kaiser Wilhelm II, who is in military uniform and Pickelhaube (pointed helmet). View of the racetrack, with spectators watching as horses race past. Closeup of photographers taking pictures as horses jump a barrier on the course. Change of scene shows a Zeppelin aloft and a large inflated airship being moved by a number of men, holding it down. Next, several racing cars are seen as they pass the camera, singly. Finally, carriages are seen with elegantly dressed occupants moving slowly past one another in a promenade at a park. Some of their horse-drawn carriages are bedecked in flowers. Other than ladies, the participants appear to be young military officers, including many lining the pathway on both sides.
Gun camera footage from USAAF P-47 of the 378th Fighter Squadron, 362nd Fighter Group, operating from Verdun Airfield, France, during World War 2. The aircraft flown by pilot named Bullock, on March 31, 1945, strafes lines of communication, striking vehicles on roads and trains moving on rail lines. In second sequence, the same pilot, now identified on slate, with the 377th Fighter Squadron, on April 4th, attacks a lone German Me-109 seen flying in thin cloud below him.
British Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor twin jet aircraft taking off and landing at an airfield in Britain, in June, 1945, right after the end of World War II in Europe. Several American soldiers sit on grass beside the runway and watch. One takes pictures. The clip shows a Meteor, so wrong clip!
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