Spaceship Gemini VII as an ambitious United Stats Space Projects launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Astronauts Frank Borman and James A Lovell Junior get ready with their space suits put on. The astronauts escorted by NASA scientists board a lift and settle in the spacecraft for a fourteen day journey in space. The Gemini VII launched from its launch pad. People watch the launching. NASA workmen repair the damages due to launching and prepare for launching of Gemini VI.
German Air Force (Luftwaffe) operations in support of the German 990th Regiment (990th Volksgrenadier Regiment of the 277th Infantry Division) during battle of Normandy, following Allied invasion in World War 2. German Focke-Wulf FW-190s take off from a field in France and proceed on tactical mission interdicting Allied lines of communication in Normandy. View of FW-190 dropping bombs, and of others strafing roads, and ground targets where Allied military movements are underway.
Formations of B-24 Liberator bombers are seen in flight, headed for Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943, during World War 2. Next, vertical columns of bombs are seen falling from the planes. Animated map of Europe shows Romania and Ploesti. It show paths of oil from the Ploesti oil fields to Germany. (Narrator states Ploesti provides 30% of Axis oil.) Map show path of 9th Air Force bombers from Libya to the Ploesti oil fields. Scenes shift to captured German films from 1944, showing the fires and destruction resulting from the constant B-24 raids. Huge black clouds rise from the area. Firefighters rush to combat flames. They direct streams of water on the conflagrations. (Commenter states: "Delayed action bombs prevented firefighters from rushing in, until too late.") Nighttime views of large fires and heavy smoke from 6 of Ploesti's 7 refineries ripped wide open. Film advances to August, 1944, showing Ploesti with the fires out, following Rumania's capitulation. Next, with some fires still burning, King Michael I of Romania, tours the site with military officers. They walk amidst the debris. Smoke rising near a rail marshaling yard. Against a background of dense smoke rising, a Slate is displayed showing the cost to the United States of the Ploesti raids, as 300 bombers and 3000 American airmen were lost.
Aerial maneuvers of a British Spitfire plane with British insignia in the sky, England. The pilot of the plane sits in its cockpit. The insignia of Royal Air Force on the fuselage of Spitfire Camouflaged texture on the Spitfire flying in sky. The plane peels off in sky and disappears.
Aerial maneuvers of a British Spitfire plane with British insignia in England. The plane with a camouflaged body in flight. The insignia of Royal Air Force on the fuselage of the Spitfire plane. The plane dives off to its left in sky and disappears.
U.S. Army Air Forces operations in Germany near the end of World War II. Fire guard stands watch as a USAAF B-26 aircraft of the 323rd Bombardment Group, starts engines at Denain-Prouvy Airdrome (A-83) in France, during World War 2. More than 50 bombs are painted on fuselage of the aircraft, representing completed bombing missions. The aircraft is equipped with 4-bladed propellers. Airman stands fire guard with extinguisher as Left engine is started. He then goes to the other side of the airplane to stand fire guard as the right engine is started. Change of scene: Allied C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft are seen flying overhead in extremely loose formations.
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