Footage shot during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Pilot seated in cockpit of a RAF (Royal Air Force) Supermarine spitfire single-seat fighter plane. Ground crew check the planes. Spitfire plane in line. Fuel lorry arrives. Planes re-armed and re-fueled. Pilots enter the cockpit. Planes take-off. Spitfire planes in air in formations.
RAF (Royal Air Force) Supermarine spitfire single-seat fighter plane is re-fueled. Albion AM463 350 gallon refueler seen. Ground crew check the planes and make it ready for the next flight. Planes re-fueled. Pilots enter the cockpit. Fuel lorry moves to the next plane. The ground crew checks the Petrol Meter while re-fueling. (World War II period).
Propeller of a RAF (Royal Air Force) Supermarine spitfire single-seat fighter plane stops. Fuel lorry seen. Ground crew check the planes and make it ready for the next flight. Planes re-fueled. Planes are re-armed before mission during Battle of Britain. (World War II period).
British women preparing for air raid blitz during World War 2 Battle of Britain. Blacking out windows. Woman putting on a gas mask. Man stacking sand bags. Air raid shelter being constructed near bank of a river. Radio receiving station. A man communicates through the radio station. Scnes of communication lines and transmission lines warning of incoming attack. German bomber aircraft in flight. Many views of aerial towers with speakers broadcasting warning sirens. British police in motorcycles and in cars driving with loud sirens blaring to warn population of air raid. British civilians going down the entrance of underground air raid shelters. British defenses ready anti-aircraft artillery batteries.
Variety of German artillery firing including battery of railway guns. Firing done. Smoke seen rising due to firing. German Pz.II and Pz.IV tanks are seen. Huge explosion. Dust rising along with smoke. German aircraft in flight, including JU-87 Stuka dive bombers and Messerschmitt bf 110. (World War II period).
German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf-110 twin engine heavy fighter aircraft in flight during World War II. The plane flies low over field and attacks aircraft on the ground with cannon fire. Gun camera footage and point of view from inside Bf-110 aircraft during attack. Aerial view of Bf-110 in formation. Next scene shows close up aerial views of a formation of German Junkers Ju 86 bombers in flight. A pilot seen in the cockpit. Fire and smoke seen. Squadron of Ju 86 in formation, returning from a mission. At the German home base, A Junkers JU-52 is forced to make a landing on one wheel when the other seems to be lost due to enemy fire or accident. The pilot skillfully keeps the aircraft rolling on the one good wheel as long as possible, and then it falls and spins to the side. The crew evacuates and no one is injured, although the aircraft is seriously damaged. The Luftwaffe crew looks over the damage.
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