Activities of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group in Sicily, Italy during World War II. Empty fuel barrels piled up. U.S. Army fuel trucks are fueled in the background. U.S. airmen open fuel barrels and fuel jerricans. Fuel barrels fall from a truck. Bombs unloaded from an airplane. Airmen smoke cigarettes and have grapes.
War damage in Sicily, Italy after bombings of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. U.S. soldiers inspect a wrecked German airplane on a captured Italian airfield. A soldier shows the picture of a German pilot. The soldiers examine the wreckage of a German airplane. A damaged hangar shows wreckage of airplanes. A picture of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes bomb Sicily, Italy during World War II. Aerial view of Sicily. Smoke billows up from explosions done by USAAF A-36 Invader bombers. An aircraft strafes roads.
Airfield damage in Sicily, Italy, from Allied "Operation Husky" and associated bombings by USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes during World War II. A U.S. soldier inspects wreckage of enemy airplanes on captured Fontanarossa Airport, Catania, Sicily. Wrecked aircraft include: Fiat G 50 fighter bomber from 378° squadriglia; A Macchi 202, Breda built XII sr AS belonging to 91° squadriglia, 10° gruppo, 4° stormo ct. (The 91° squadriglia was commanded by ten. Mecatti. 4° stormo ct was based in three airstrips in the "Piana di Catania" and fought fiercely and bravely against Allied air offensive just before and during "Operation Husky.") U.S.soldier removes long ammunition belt from an airplane. The soldiers inspect airplanes in a hangar,One of the German fighter planes in the hangar has a painted picture of "Minnie Mouse", riding atop a bomb, and wielding a battle axe. Close up of the picture is shown.
Crowds in Berlin, Germany, celebrate their new chancellor and Government, on January 30, 1933. Crowd of German people surround a car carrying Adolf Hitler in front of the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin. Citizens gather around the statue of General Leopold I, in Wilhelm Platz. Scene shifts to newly appointed Chancellor Hitler with his cabinet. He is seen conversing with former Chancellor, Franz von Papen, at his left and Hermann Göring, at his right. Standing behind Papen is Alfred Hugenberg, head of the German National People's Party (DNVP). Next, a slate appears stating that In the evening, the National Youth honor the aged German president (Hindenburg) and their new chancellor by a torchlight parade. View of Hitler watching from a window in the Chancellery. (Note: The torchlight parade was made up mostly of Nazi storm troopers, aka Sturmabteilung -SA, and SS troopers, with some organized youth participating.)
The National Socialist Factory Cell organizations (NSBO) gathered in the Berlin Lustgarten, for a large protest march through the formerly Marxist areas east of Berlin. Men carry banners for various worker groups, including some German Government workers from the Defense Ministry. Many carry signs showing affilitation with the NSBO. Uniformed Berlin policemen are seen in the crowd. At start of the next sequence, a slate states that the day before the election, the entire Berlin Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers marched by Hermann Goring, Prussian Minister of the Interior. They are seen marching past Goering, who reviews them from a balcony.
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