Film opens showing air combat scenes from tun camera of several American fighter planes shooting down German warplanes. Some are high altitude encounters with aircraft leaving contrails as they fly. Gun camera views from American planes strafing German airfields and destroying aircraft on the ground. Strafing over lines of communication like roads, highways, canals and railroads. Locomotives struck and huge clouds of smoke issuing from them. Military fortifications being strafed and smoke rising. A huge explosion from a train being strafed. View from American fighter aircraft passing through ball of fire from explosion during strafing. Formation of American B-26 Marauder bombers flying through Flak clouds. One is seen flying level in flames. Another is seen from below. It is in D-Day striped paint and its left engine has been hit and partly torn off. Next, it is seen rolling over and headed down with flames and smoke coming from its left side.
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering and high-ranking Nazi officials attend a military review during World War II. Wehrmacht flag on top of a government building. Wehrmacht troops addressed by Hitler. Guards stand with Nazi flag outside the Neue Wache (Unter den Linden 4 10117 Berlin). Homage to Austrian Nazis after invasion of Austria by Nazi forces. Wreath at the Neue Wache. Soldiers salute them. Civilians salute Hitler. Nazi German soldiers march in Berlin.
German U-boats in high tide cruise the North Sea. A sailor looks from its top. Workers work inside a U-boat. Huge cannons on deck of the ship. Convoy of German warplanes in sky above the U-boats.
United States Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers dropping bombs on German targets during World War II. Bombs falling and hitting targets. A waist gunner in B-17 shoots down a German aircraft and it descends. A United States airman descends with parachute. A mechanic inspects damage on bomber’s tire. A B-17 Flying Fortress taxiing. Wounded soldiers on stretchers being taken off the plane. A damaged B-17 bomber with a hole near gun turret. Another B-17 crash causing an explosion. Fire fighters spray water to fight blaze. B-17 bombers fly in formation.
Numerous clips of German gun camera footage from Focke Wulf FW-190 fighters attacking formations of United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 bombers, of the 8th Air Force, engaged in high altitude daylight bombing missions.
German gun camera footage of United States B-24 bombers being attacked by various Focke Wulf FW 190A fighter planes during WWII. Inserted slates indicate the name of the pilot (von Hinton) and the range at which each attack commences and is broken off. Shown are FW-190 attacks on individual and formations of U.S. B-24 bombers. Attacks are both head-on and from the rear of formations. Several B-24s are severely damaged and possibly destroyed in the air. Some views show other German fighter aircraft also attacking through the same B-24 formations
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