German bombers attack British coastal shipping. Aerial view from a German aircraft. The plane flies over clouds. Pilots and a gunner in the plane. AIrcraft flies over the British coast. An airman reads a map. A lighthouse on land. Planes parked on an airstrip on the ground below. British ships off the coast. The German aircraft drops bombs on the ships. Black smoke from the explosions and bombardment. Sunken ship in the water. Plane flies over the ships. (World War II period).
Italian fleet on maneuvers in the Mediterranean. The Italian flag on a battleship. A fleet of Italian ships. Airplanes on the ship deck. Sailors work on a plane. The plane is catapulted into flight. Officers and sailors survey the surroundings through binoculars. Gun on the ship deck. Sailors in the engine room. Water splashing along the ship. Flags on the ship. Explosions in the water. Ships fire during the exercise. Ships are hit. Black smoke from the ships on fire. Charred deck of a ship. Firemen try to put out the fire with water hoses. An officer looks through a telescope. A burning ship. (World War II period).
A bald man sits at a table in a liquor bar. Glasses of beer on the table. Another man comes and sits with him. The bald man drinks. The second man calls the waiter and asks for a drink. Women seated on a table in the background. One of them smokes. The bald man takes out a handkerchief and wipes his tears. Points to a paper kept on the table. He talks animatedly to the second man. The conversation continues for a while. The waiter brings the second man a glass of beer. The men talk, gesture and laugh together. The bald man calls the waiter and asks him to refill the beer glass. The waiter gets a refill. The bald man begins to whisper something. The second man puts his palm over the bald man's mouth to prevent him from saying something.
German airmen mechanics perform maintenance inspections on a Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in occupied France, during World War 2. They rearm it with machine gun ammunition and install a gun camera. One ground crewman paints a tally mark, for a mission, on the aircraft tail. A German flier feeds a pet bear, while others look on. Another pilot plays with two pet dogs, while being photographed by a movie camera (cameraman seen only by his shadow). German soldier reports the sighting by telephone. German pilot dons life vest and climbs into the cockpit of his Bf-109. Several Bf-109s take off. Gun camera view from German fighter aircraft firing from headon and below, at a British Spitfire aircraft. German pilots on the ground look up as two British Spitfire aircraft buzz low over nearby buildings. Group of German airmen gather to watch dogfights between German and British aircraft. Closeup of several looking up and pointing. Gun camera footage of a Spitfire taking headon fire from below and another being shot at from rear and above. A ball of black smoke is seen from an aircraft that has been hit by gunfire. Closeup of German Bf-109 in flight. German Gun camera view of a Spitfire being being hit from behind. Glimpse of two aircraft in close combat followed by one crashing and exploding on the ground. Gun camera view from German aircraft attacking a British Lysander aircraft. Extreme closeup of German ace Adolf Galland in cockpit of his airborne Bf-109. A British Spitfire aircraft sitting where it crash landed in shallow water. Fighter aircraft flying high above in echelon formation. A BF-109 buzzing low over the camera, followed by one taxiing after landing. View of Adolf Galland, stepping from cockpit of his Bf-109, and walking back to base operations along with other pilots who greet him.
A map of the Eastern Front from the Caucuses North. A Romanian Paratroop officer looks through binoculars from a trench. Another Romanian soldier with him. Many spent cartridges on ground in front of them. Romanian infantry advancing through fields and brush. They employ flame throwers. German soldiers load and fire artillery and guns. Smoke due to the explosions. Burning tanks. Soldiers on military vehicles cross a field. Soldiers on bicycles. Wrecked and charred military vehicles. A half track of Panzer Grenadier Division Grossdeutchland moves along. Soldiers survey the area. Burning tanks on the road. Burning and bomb damaged buildings. Hens and chicks among the rubble. German infantry advance through the burning rubble of buildings. A Pz.IV tank of 23.Pz.Div advances. An amphibious craft in the water. The German cavalry and soldiers on bicycles cross a raised road by a river bank. A sign identifies the embankment as Manyisch Damm, at Grenze, the boundary between Europe and Asia. Soldiers on horses and foot march. Smiling German soldiers.
Sign Board of Royal Air Force base at Habbaniya shows distances in miles to London and Baghdad. British aircraft bomb positions of Iraqi forces attacking from positions overlooking the air base during World War II. British soldiers take up defensive positions with small arms and machine guns. View of damaged building, destroyed guns and cars alongside Iraqi soldiers. British soldiers work on the banks of River Euphrates. View of gathered British and Iraqi military officers with Prince Abdul Ilah (also written as Crown Prince Abd al-Ilah of Iraq.)