U.S.Army Air Corps P-47s with engines running, taxiing our for takeoff. Army personnel in Runway control unit with signal light.(Few seconds of film reversed.) Among the aircraft seen is P-47D, number 42-28543 named “Pat” piloted by Capt. Gordon S Stevens,of Smithfield,North Carolina, of the 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, stationed in England.(He was killed in action, 18 September 1944.) Views of the P-47s enroute to join up with B-17 bomber formations. P-51s and P-38s taking off. P-51s inflight to relieve P-47s of escort duty.US pilot with mission profile inked on back of his hand. Narrator (Ronald Reagan?) describes the way successive relays of U.S. fighters relieved each other performing bomber escort duties. Scenes from captured German film shows alarm sounding and German fighter pilots scrambling in Me-109s and FW-190s to intercept the U.S. bombers. Escorting U.S. P-51s jettison their long range drop tanks preparing to meet attacking German interceptors. Gun camera footage shows many German fighters being destroyed.P-47s, P-51s and P-38s firing their guns. Several Me-109s in formation. German gun camera clip showing many B-17s being shot to pieces by 22mm gunfire and falling, often in flames.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel visits with Mrs. Goebbels and her children, during a period between command assignments, during World War II. Rommel, standing with aides, in the garden of the Goebbels home in Schwanenwerder, Berlin, smiles as he watches the Goebbels children at play. Magda Goebbels, wife of Propaganda Minister Joseph Paul Goebbels, with her children gathered around a slide in the yard. Rommel watches as Magda helps her youngest daughter, Heidrun, down the slide using a wheeled board and help from another daughter. Field Marshal Rommel looks on and smiles. Rommel along with Magda, return to the house, holding hands with the children. Another view of the activities around the slide. Rommel examines the wheeled board with Mrs. Goebbels, who then helps Heidrun ride it down the slide. Marshal Rommel and Magda Goebbels hold hands with her daughters as they return along a path to the house.
A woman and a man singing a duet on stage, as they pretend to be in a german warplane,flying over parts of Europe during World War 1. Below their staged airplane the set includes paintings of the Eiffel Tower, a Dutch windmill and other features of European countries. The programs for various musical theater presentations are shown, including one entitled "Die Gulasch Kanone" (The Field Kitchen), a play with music in three acts. A scene from another production is seen, with A newly wedded couple walking to a horse drawn carriage. Women standing near the carriage serenade the couple and spread flower petals at their feet. They enter the carriage.
The mobilization and deployment of the German Army early in World War I. German soldiers stand with baggage and supplies. Horse drawn carts loaded with supplies. Garlanded trucks leave Berlin carrying newly recruited soldiers. Officers on horses and horse drawn carts ride past a cheering crowd. The soldiers on a railroad station before leaving for war. The cavalry march. German soldiers wave to their relatives from a train before departing for war front. People on platform and the band playing. Verdun : Supplies on rail road cars. Soldiers near a train.
German aggression during World War II. Animated map shows troop movement and German occupied territories before the attack on Russia. Animation depicts German invasion of Norway and Denmark.
Opening nighttime scene shows two Hitler Youth skiers descending a snowy hill. Each carries two flaming torches. They converge at a prepared fire site and light a large bonfire with their torches. View of numerous burning torches held by other Hitler Youth members on the hillside. Glimpse of flags and the large bonfire. (World War 2; WWII; WW2)
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