Formation of Soviet YAK fighter aircraft in flight. A lone German Messerschmitt Bf 109 in flight. The YAKs peel off and dive to attack. Aerial dogfight footage as the Soviet aircraft pursue the German airplane and shoot it down. It crashes into the ocean. The flight of Soviet aircraft attack a lone German Me-110 and it descends in flames to crash and explode on the ground.The Soviets attack another German aircraft that also crashes and explodes. German pilot is seen descending in parachute. A downed German airplane begins to burn on the ground and bursts into flames that consume it. In separate sequence, Soviet General, Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin, looks through binoculars as he observes artillery fire on Sapun Mountains, Ukraine. Views of the General's staff. Soviet gun crews firing 203mm B-4 heavy artillery. Soviet officers discussing target map. Animated map showing the Soviet advances and capture of Sevastopol in May 1944
A U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft, of the Air Transport Command, lands at Luqa airport in Malta. It taxis to the Allied Air Terminal and U.S. Rear Admiral, Lynde D. McCormick, chairman of the Joint Logistics Committee of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, deplanes. He is greeted by other officers involved in arrangements for the Malta Conference, code named: Argonaut, Phase I Cricket). they chat briefly on the windy ramp and then enter a staff car and depart.
German Red Cross personnel march with their personal gear. Horses of a German commissary division pull large soup wagons (patterned after those used by the Barnum and Bailey traveling Circus). They also pull cooking equipment and supplies. A German manufacturing plant where 3000 of the soup wagons are being readied for shipment to the front. Several wagons are seen loaded on a railroad flat car. German soldiers at the front gather around a field kitchen and get soup from one of the wagons.
An F-86F pilot of the U.S. 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing, Suwon Air Base, South Korea, prepares for a mission. A USAF Lieutenant briefs a Captain (pilot) standing beside a USAF F-86F Sabrejet .The officer takes the chart away. An airman checking under one of the wings of the aircraft. Another pilot climbs down from the cockpit, shakes hands with the the pilot who had just been briefed.(Both pilots are wearing back-pack parachutes) The pilot, just briefed, climbs into the aircraft cockpit, placing his helmet on windshield in front of him. Crew chief helps him strap in, and the pilot puts on his helmet.
Royal Air Force aircraft on display at RAF Duxford airfield, Cambridgeshire, England, during making of 1969 movie, "The Battle of Britain." Several views from different angles of a Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft parked on the ramp. The aircraft is painted in wartime colors and displays 8 crosses below the cockpit, indicating downed German aircraft. Four-bladed propeller dominates front view. Also seen are two Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft parked on the ramp.
The history of the United States. A pictorial map shows the path followed by Christopher Columbus in 1492 across the Atlantic Ocean. He found a group of islands where other explorers from Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, England, Italy and France found two continents. The representation of the area in the northern continent over which the English and the French fought and the French were defeated. The French gave up their colonies and in 1763 they belonged to England. People in the English colonies at work. English officials during a meet. The workers rebelling against English troops. Farmers, who became soldiers, moving with guns. The army led by George Washington moving against the English Army. The thirteen colonies of the English became independent, during the American Revolution, leading to the birth of American nation.
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