View of several dome shaped kiosks named Consol Shelter, or Personal ARP Protection shelters in Birmingham, England, early in World War 2. Smaller than an Anderson Shelter, holding just one person, they are designed to provide portable protection for "Key Personnel". During a demonstration of the shelters, a British woman enters inside. Man closing door of shelter. A floor of construction debris is seen crashing down upon the shelter, and then the woman emerges from the Console Shelter unharmed. Group of men officials watching the demonstration. People viewing the Console Shelter.
Film begins showing explosions from bombs in Malta from high flying Axis warplanes during World War 2. They raise huge columns of smoke. Remainder of the film shows scenes of destruction wrought by the bombing that eased in 1942. A bombed out church with only skeletal roofing left. People walking on a street between rows of rubble. A horse and carriage is the only other means of transportation seen. Empty walls of a destroyed buildings with rubble filling the area between them. Views from interior of a church looking out through a huge holes in its walls. Camera pans down from rubble covered high altar in a church, to a priest conducting mass at a make shift altar. Worshipers occupy chairs set up in front of the piles of rubble. Major building with only its front wall intact. A horse and carriage conveying passengers amidst pedestrians walking between rubble lined street. Camera pans across part of city to capture explosions from more bombs.
A USAAF B-26 bomber being armed during World War 2. A wheeled bomb dolly loaded with 500 pound bombs is parked next to a B-26 aircraft. Four armorers, using special handles, slide one of the bombs off the carrier and move it under the aircraft. Another crew also removes a bomb from the carrier. Next scene shows armorers inserting fuzes in several bombs on the ground under the aircraft bomb bay. View, through operations building window, of a P-38 fighter plane parked in the grass, and B-26 bombers taxiing past it in the background. A P-38 fighter aircraft viewed almost head-on as it comes in for a landing. A formation of B-26 bombers overhead.
2ND LT. W.G. ERKAMP. 385TH SQ. 364TH FG. engages German FW-190, blows part of aircraft away. German pilot bails out. Chute not visible. Also engages an ME-109. German pilot bails out. Parachute visible descending.
LT. CREIGHTON.434TH SQ. 479TH FG. trailing a German FW-190, both aircraft flying very low to ground. German aircraft makes a steep climb, some hits being scored on it. Lieutenant Creighton flies over a crashed fighter aircraft.
People gather around an English SE 5 plane at De Mille Field in Hollywood, California. People around a captured German Fokker. Two captured German maxim rapid fire guns shown by a man in front of Fokker plane number 8530/18.
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