A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron in Europe. The missile squadron training installation at Wheelus Air Base in Tripoli, Libya. Cars move on a road. The tactical missile TM-61A on mobile zero-length launcher in clearing in Germany. An airman checks out the wing spoiler and tail assembly. The TM-61A in launch position. USAF (United States Air Force) T-33 Shooting Star swooping in low over missile.
A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron in Europe. A Matador convoy moving along a road. Warhead on trailer being hooked up to a truck at storage area and moving out. A Captain and a Colonel behind sand bags using a field communication system. A loudspeaker. An airman signaling his arm in circular motion. A zero-length launcher in the background. The Captain and the Colonel talk into field telephone behind sand bag revetment. A hand flipping switch on engine control box. The missile in launch position. A hand flipping switch on the control box. Sand bag revetment of TM-61A on launcher. A small box with hand flipping switches. TM-61A in launch position. The missile installation squadron in Germany. A dish-shaped antenna atop a van. Airmen with rifles in thicket. An officer picking up telephone, launching, hanging up the phone and relaxing. Major General Robert M. Lee, Commander of 12th Air Force in office.
Views from dock in New York and from aboard ship as the SS Marine Flasher arrives in New York on May 20, 1946, after departing Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. Crowd of people gathered to greet passengers getting off the ship. Scenes show jubilant people and some reunions of family members or relatives. The passengers are largely displaced persons and refugees from World War 2. People disembark the ship. A woman with her child stands in front of a hatch. Three women aboard the ship pose. A woman kisses a man. People meet their relatives. People leave with their luggage. The luggage of the people with tags. Luggage tags with name (Ingeborg) Inge Rummeni of 824 North 38th St. Milwaukee Wisconsin on them. A woman and a child show concentration camp number tattoos on their arms from a Nazi German prison camp.
View of Eagle Squadron units of the British RAF, composed of Americans who volunteered to assist Britain against Germany before the United States entered World War II. The Eagle Squadron members are receiving Army Air Force insignia wings from Brigadier General Frank Hunter as they formally exit the RAF and enter the 4th Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force. Close-up views of Hunter presenting wings to the airmen, some of who had served the RAF for two year including in the Battle of Britain. The three squadrons, 334th, 335th, and 336th, parade in the rain at an airbase. The American flag is raised beside the RAF flag on a flag pole.
A sign in German alluding to Greater Germany. ME-109 fighter aircraft takes off from dirt field. Junkers JU-88 bombers in formation. German pilots at controls of JU-88. British Spitfire attacks a JU-88. Gunners on bomber fire at Spitfire. German ME-109 arrives and engages British Spitfire in dogfight. The Spitfire is hit and descends, smoking, then crashes flat and burns. JU-88s continue and drop bombs. Dorner Do 17 bombers are also seen dropping bombs. Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers in flight. Views from pilot's cockpit. Formation of Ju-87s. View from cockpit of Ju 87 during dive bombing run against ground target. Smoke seen due to bomb explosion. Formation of Ju-87s with pilots in cockpits. View from cockpit as Ju-87 makes dive bomb attack against allied ship engaged in evasive maneuvers, with bombs falling near it.
Piloted by the tug boat 'Thomas F. Timmins' the first German cargo submarine 'Deutschland', a blockade buster of the Entente Powers naval blockade, arrives in Baltimore Harbor. An animated map shows the movement of the submarine from Germany. Captain of the German submarine 'Deutschland', Paul König, with other men (Konig's name is listed in the slate as Koenig). German sailors on the submarine as it is escorted in port by the tug Timmins. Last part of clip switches to the Atlantic waters off of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the latest United States Navy submarine, the USS M-1 (SS-47) is seen during its test trials. It was the world's first doubled-hulled submarine.
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