The Operations of the 8th Fighter Command in the European Theater. 29-May-1944; 2nd Lieutenant W W Furr of 328th squadron 352nd fighter group flying the aircraft. High altitude view of the area. FW-190 in flight. The plane is strafed immediately before it lands. It crashes and explodes.
United States Army Air Force 8th Fighter Command gun camera footage of attacking targets in Europe during World War II. 07-June-1944; Captain T. F. Railey of the United States Army Air Force 361st squadron, 356th fighter group flying the aircraft. Attacking the ground targets as seen from gun camera of the aircraft. High altitude view of the area. Strafing of motorized vehicle on road. The vehicle explodes. Smoke arises from explosion. (World War II period).
The Operations of the 8th Fighter Command in the European Theater. 08-June-1944; 2nd Lieutenant W Butts of 376th squadron 361th fighter group flies the aircraft. Ground target attacked. High altitude view of the area. Strafing of trucks on road. Smoke arises due to the explosion. (World War II period).
The Operations of the 8th Fighter Command in the European Theater. 08-June-1944; Lieutenant R S Kuehner of 82nd squadron 78th fighter group flies the aircraft. Ground target attacked. High altitude view of the area. Moving motor vehicle strafed and car hit. Car goes out of control. Strafing of locomotive. Smoke arises. (World War II period).
Several American school children, including one in a Boy Scouts of America uniform, recite the pledge of allegiance during World War 2. Scene broadens to encompass a school yard filled with elementary school students reciting the pledge in front of an American flag flying high on a pole. As scene fades images appear of battleships firing guns; an F4F airplane taking off from an aircraft carrier; landing craft approaching a beach; American soldiers fighting with small arms and a flame thrower, in jungles of New Guinea; a U.S. gun crew firing heavy artillery; and a U.S. P-38 aircraft on a rainy runway, spraying water as it takes off, in the Aleutian Islands. U.S. troops firing automatic weapons on a Pacific Island. A B-17 pilot wearing an oxygen mask in his cockpit, flying in a formation creating contrails at high altitude over Germany. Waist gunner firing at an attacking German fighter plane that explodes in air. U.S. troops in jeeps moving over jungle road. U.S. ski troops on snow in Iceland heading downhill toward their tents in the snow. American troops during amphibious landing in the Philippines. U.S. troops aboard army halftracks on desert in Iran. American paratroopers dropping from C-47 aircraft over France. U.S. soldiers marching through two large gates with cadre of Chinese soldiers in China. American troops fighting in Italy and firing a 155mm howitzer. U.S. infantry following a sherman tank over a war-torn landscape with shells bursting nearby. Crowded, busy street scenes of traffic and pedestrians in Manhattan, New York City, and Chicago, Illinois. Army tanks being manufactured by war production workers in a Detroit war production plant or factory. A Los Angeles shipyard filled with workers at shift change. Closeups of individual American soldiers in combat helmets. U.S. troops descending rope nets from transport ships to board landing craft, and approaching the beaches of Normandy, France, under fire, on D-day, June 6, 1944. Views of the Statue of Liberty, including closeups.
U.S. military preparations for the invasion of France in 1944 during World War 2. Footage focuses on transport ships and landing craft practice amphibious operations with American troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment. Film begins showing closeup of the American transport ship, USS Anne Arundel (AP-76) anchored off shore at Slapton Sands, England. A landing ship (LCI-590) passes by her and several Higgins boats maneuver in waters nearby. Stern view of the Anne Arundel from an LCI. Closeup of an LCI pulling up next to the transport ship. Next, troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment are seen descending rope net from the transport ship and boarding the LCI. Closeup from the LCI of the troops reaching the deck of the LCI and walking forward. The number on the LCI is "88." Several views from different angles of the troops descending the rope net from the transport ship. View of the USS Anne Arundel with Higgins boats moving all around her. Closeup of LCI moving away from a transport ship. More views of troops descending from a transport ship to a Landing Craft Infantry. View from an LCI headed for the beach, where many troops have already landed. The LCI continues and beaches. Troops and various exercise markers are seen in the background Troops leave the LCI via her side ramps and join many others already ashore.
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