The last month of combat in World War 2, in Europe. Gun camera footage from a U.S. 8th Air Force P-47M of the 56th Fighter Group, 63rd Fighter Squadron. The aircraft strafes German targets of opportunity on the ground including German aircraft. Smoke rises from exploding building. A number of German aircraft burn. Aerial view of green fields and burning German buildings. The pilot is Captain Walter L Flagg of Conimicut, Rhode Island. His aircraft is Number: 44-21140, UN-F, named "Shoot You're Faded."
The first Albatross birds from Midway Island land in San Francisco, California after a 4000 miles flight. Two men take the birds out of a cage. A Pan American Clipper aircraft parked in the background. A man feeds the birds inside a cage at the Fleischacker Zoo.
Two police motorcycles escort a black truck carrying Martin Insull, following his deportation from Canada. The truck displays "Atlas Bro Co" across its top. (Martin is brother of the famous fugitive, Samuel Insull who fled the country following the collapse of his various utility company holding companies, most notably Middle Western Utilities.) Martin Insull is being brought to the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, to answer charges about his involvement in the matter. Scene shifts to Cook County Courthouse where Martin Insull is escorted by various officials. A group of men and women stand in the area. Some exhibit signs of distress. View from above of the Cook County jail. Smoke from stacks obscuring it somewhat. Change of scene shows heavily armed FBI agents escorting handcuffed and chained gangster George Francis Barnes aka “Machine Gun Kelly" at an American Airlines facility in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1933. They escort him past a parked airplane. Closeup of the "Lima News" of Lima, Ohio, with headline reflecting a national federal campaign against gangsters and criminals in the U.S. View of crowded courtroom. View of Alcatraz prison on its rock island in San Francisco Bay, California. Interior view of cell blocks in Alcatraz. Federal officials escorting arrested men in handcuffs who hide their faces as they approach the camera.
United States Marines in combat on Iwo Jima Island, in the Pacific, during World War II. A 5th Marine Division tank burns after being hit by Japanese artillery fire. Column of U.S. M4 Sherman tanks advances on battlefield. One of them is equipped with a bulldozer blade. Shells from Japanese 77mm field artillery explode around the tanks.
United States Marine Corps of the 3rd Marine Division invade the Iwo Jima Island during the Iwo Jima operation of World War II. Tracers in the sky during night firing. Trucks and jeep on dirt road at United States camp area. Ships at harbor in the background.
Philippine Islanders greet Allied invasion troops in Philippines. Allied troops unload supplies on a beachhead. An LSM (Landing Ship Medium) in the background. Jeeps and armored vehicles on the beach. Boxes piled in line. The soldiers stand in water and pass the supplies. Tracers fired at night. (World War II period).
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