Experiments on the aerial bombing of water crafts off Virginia Capes in the United States. July 20 and 21, 1921: Latest type First Line battleship, the heavily armored Ostfriesland at sea. Specifications of the ship. Handley Page 0/400 bombers in flight. The Ostfriesland under bombing attack. Explosions on and around the ship. Three 1,100 bombs hit the ship directly. View of the deck and bow. A 2000lb bomb caves in the starboard quarter. The ship tilted to one side and sinking. A final bomb dropped on the ship. Brigadier General William Mitchell congratulates the pilots and bombers. Secretary of War John W Weeks and U.S. Army General John J Pershing inspect Langley Field with other officers. Brigadier General Mitchell explains the NBS-1 bomber to Secretary Weeks. The group of Air Service pilots pose for a photographer in front of hangers.
War damage in Berlin, Germany as seen from the air. Various buildings destroyed in the Berlin Mitte district. Aerial view of the Potsdamer Platz, the Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei Wilhelmstraße 77 Berlin, Germany), and the Reichstag building (Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany), showing further damage caused by bombing. Aerial view of Mitte district, with heavy damage from bombing. View of the Ministry of Aviation building (now known as the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus Wilhelmstraße 97, 10117 Berlin, Germany).
Student life in Frankfurt, West Germany after World War 2. Young men and women listen to a uniformed American soldier conducting class inside a classroom. A young woman asks the soldier a question. Various drawings are displayed on a wall behind students. Inside an elementary school classroom, a young German girl wearing braids stands up from her seat. Young girl reciting with her book in class. Young girl raises her hands inside classroom. A hand flipping through pages of a German book. College students follow a professor in a university corridor. German college students, some talking, waiting for class to start inside a lecture room.
Two P-51 planes of the U.S. Army Air Forces drop bombs over part of Pacific Ocean near Philippines during World War II. P-51 Mustangs in flight. The planes dive. The planes drop bombs over Pacific Ocean near Philippines. Smoke rises as the bombs hit the water below.
P-38s and P- 47s of the U.S. Army Air Force fly over Philippines during World War II . A group of P- 47 Thunderbolts and a P-38 Lightning in flight. A group of P- 38s in flight over the clouds and the terrain.
A radio tower being bombarded in Philippines during World War 2. Close view of fuselage of a plane. Insignia and name 'Major G. Laren, Jr.' written on the fuselage. Aerial view of the city. A U.S. pilot and a co-pilot in the cockpit of a plane. A steel radio tower hit by a shell. There is an explosion and flashes of fire as the shell hits the tower in the center. The tower falls down.
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