General Henry Arnold alights from automobile. General Spaatz, General Vandenberg and General Lee also alight. General Arnold and Lieutenant Colonel Grump in conversation. General Arnold gets into aircraft B-25. MPs guard plane. Aircraft P-51 taxis down runway.
A number of Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft of 323rd Bombardment Group (9th Air Force) are lined up for takeoff. As they taxi past camera, tail number of one: 43-34344, is visible. All aircraft display the distinctive White Tail identifying the 323rd BG. (The Group is known to some as Wood's Rocket Raiders, so-named for their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Wilson r. Wood.) The location is Denain Airfield (A-83), near the City of Valenciennes, France. The time is April, 7,1945, a month before VE Day. Several airmen are pitching horseshoes, while others watch. They use a shoe to measure how close one came to the pin. Two airment use a two-man saw to saw a timber while a third sits on it to hold it still.
Near the end of World War 2, in Europe. U.S. gun camera footage of American fighter firing at a German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Several hits are seen on the wings and then on the tail of the Me 262, which appears to accelerate, while emitting smoke. It is then seen with its right engine smoking heavily. It is again attacked and apparently shot down. Another scene shows attack against a German fighter (Me-109?).
German plane in flight over fields as seen from aircraft. Aircraft strafes German plane. German plane goes down after attacked. (World War II period).
American aircraft strafes vehicle on road. Aircraft strafes transport truck on wooded road. Horse-drawn vehicles strafed. Trucks explode.
American aircraft dives in and strafes ground targets. Aircraft strafes farm buildings, small factories, houses and a truck on road.
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