Refine Your Search

Pacific Proving Grounds 1955 stock footage and images

- Showing 7531 to 7536 of 8009 results
Latécoère 521 flying boat in operation. Hitler flies Lufthansa Junkers Ju-52 to visit troops in the field.

Views of a Latécoère 521 flying boat powered by six 860 hp Hispano-Suiza 12Ydrs engines configured with four pusher puller engines inboard and two pullers (tractor engines) outboard It is being lowered by a crane into the water. Straps and cables support the flying boat beneath the crane. View of starboard tractor engines running. A crew member wearing goggles seen near open hatch. Stern view of the flying boat on takeoff across the water, with wake visible behind. Navigator bending over charts at his work station.Crew member speaks to another wearing headset. Ship seen underway below. Sailor with binoculars out a hatch on the flying boat. Closeup of the freighter from above. She displays a Maltese cross on her funnel and and plain cross on her hull. A crewman aboard the flying boat photographs the ship. Views of the ship as the flying boat passes above her. Scene shifts to a crew member crawling through a tunnel between compartments. He speaks to an officer from the tunnel. Brief view of navigator adjusting gyroscopic compass in roof of his compartment. Radio operator at his station,moving a loop antenna to determine signal direction. Pilot at the controls receives message from a crew member.Views of an airfield. .Several small warplanes and a Junkers JU-52 are parked on the field. What appear to be many bomb craters cover an area on the field. Ground view of aircraft wreckage. a line of Henschel HS 126A-1 utility aircraft. Damaged biplane with bent prop. Junkers Ju-52 taxiing with Adolf Hitler seen inside.Soldiers waving goodbye, as the Ju-52 takes off.The Lufthansa Ju-52 airborne. Hitler inside the cabin chatting with an officer. The aircraft landing, and Hitler being greeted by the local commanding officer. Hitler and officers taking lunch at an outdoor field kitchen. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675045792
A German gunner fires at a cargo ship from a flying Heinkel He-115 in the European Theater.

Heinkel He-115 aircraft parked on the airfield in the European Theater during World War 2. Ground crew works on it. Other planes parked in the background. Officers play with a dog which is on pontoon of a He-115. Large aerial control tower in the background at a snow covered airfield as the plane takes off. View of piilot inside He-115 aircraft. Aerial view from He-115 of a cargo ship underway. A German Luftwaffe gunner with hand on gun. Point of view shots from the German plane as it fires at the ship, making several passes. The ship on fire. Smoke from the burning ship. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675045793
Various German warplanes in action during World War II

German Bf.109 E aircraft fly low in formation over railroad tank cars being filled with liquid from a ship in a port. Closeup of the liquid being discharged from a large hose into the tank car. A formation of German Dornier DO-17 bombers in flight overhead. German aircraft with engines running on a flight line. They have two long curving pipes, each collecting exhaust from six cylinders of its 12 cylinder engine. A formation of Heinkel He 51 airplanes taking off. A formation of Dornier Do 23 G heavy bombers in flight. View of bombs falling from aircraft. Bombs bursting on the ground. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1940
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675045794
Hospitalization of American prisoners of war (POWs) liberated from Japanese prison camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines, during World War II.

Film opens with slate reading: "Cabanatuan Prisoners' Hospitalization at Time of Repatriation." Brief view of a tent-like field hospital where former POWs were being treated, behind American lines, with rescued American POWs in beds and several Army nurses attending them. After that is an extended view of several ambulatory patients engaged in conversations at a hospital behind American lines. At TC:01:35, the scene reverts to earlier time, and a patient is seen lying in the ruins of the prison camp on the day of the rescue raid (Jan 30, 1945). He is being tended to by another soldier, with whom he converses. Two former prisoners are seen in a straw-lined cart prepared for transport back to the American lines, by water buffalo. The remainder of the film shows the former POWs and their rescuers leaving the Cabanatuan prison, on their way back to the American lines. Some non-ambulatory former prisoners are seen lying on straw- covered ground.

Date: 1945, January 30
Duration: 3 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045817
Men remove dead bodies of American prisoners massacred by the Japanese in Palawan, Philippines (WW2)

Bodies of dead American prisoners in Palawan, Philippines, victims of the Palawan Massacre of American POW by Japanese forces in December 1944 (World War II). A sign board reads: 'This area off limits to all personnel'. 'Remains of American prisoners of war'. Men exhume corpses in the area. They dig the graves. Exterior of a building. Recovered dead bodies of soldiers lying on the ground. Men sit nearby. A man searches the dead bodies.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045828
A damaged church and defaced icons in Ukraine.

A damaged Orthodox church in Ukraine during World War II. Interior of the church. Icons painted on the wall of the church. Destroyed church and defaced Orthodox Christian icons. Rubble on the ground. Exterior of the church.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045843