A Red Cross ambulance pulls up to United States B-17 bomber and wounded airmen being taken off the plane in England during World War II. Wounded being placed onto stretchers and being put in the ambulance. An officer gives blood plasma and a cigarette to an injured. B-17s landing, one with number 1 engine feathered, another with with number one feathered. One B-17 named "Southern Comfort" (tail number 41-24617) with large piece of rudder shot away. Another with rudder missing entirely and a large chunk shot out of its vertical stabilizer. B-17 named "Dame Satan" with large hole in its fuselage. More views of battle damage including crippled landing gear, numerous holes in wings, large sections of wings and fuselages shot away, and destroyed canopies. Crew members pose in front of their battle-damaged aircraft. Battle damage to B-17 named "Old Bill."
Four B-24s fly over city. Distant view of scattered formation of six B-24s over Budapest. Five B-24s fly over the city with shadows on ground moving across flat terrain. A B-24 drop bombs over the target area. Vapor trails of B-24s can be seen in sky. Hazy view of aircraft over high clouds. (World War II period).
German forces moving to defend against the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War 2. German troops run past a disabled American Sherman tank as they take cover from attacks by British fighter bombers. Several German Stug III tank destroyers make their way along a dirt road. They are covered in natural foliage as camouflage. A German infantryman with rifle in a trench, looks up as Allied aircraft attack. German artillerymen firing Flak 18 (88mm) antiaircraft guns at the British planes. Another German gunner, seated and firing a 20mm Flak 30 light antiaircraft gun. British Hawker Typhoon IB fighter bombers dropping bombs from low altitude and strafing. Smoke rising from bomb bursts. Germans firing a Flak 36 (88mm) antiaircraft gun. View of Hawker Typhoon flying close overhead with rockets and gun barrels protruding from wings. An airplane with slight smoke trail. Another close low altitude pass by a Hawker Typhoon aircraft. German gunner seated at his antiaircraft gun. Half a dozen British aircraft making bombing runs. British Typhoon aircraft in D-day stripes, flying past, low and climbing. German gun crew firing as bombs continue to burst. A British airplane is hit and burning. Closeup of some burning unrecognizable aircraft wreckage in a grassy field. German gunners, carrying small arms, jump over their emplacement wall and run to a British Typhoon aircraft in D-Day stripes, that has crash landed not far away, near the shore. Four armed German soldiers search around the downed aircraft. The German antiaircraft gun crew paint another white ring on their gun barrel, to credit a plane shot down.
President of National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena speaks. Planetarium in the background. USAF Major Quintanilla speaks about evaluation of UFO reports. NICAP President says that people are left uninformed and given weak explanation about UFOs. Major Quintanilla says that UFOs possess no threat to nation's security. People look up in sky.
Samara in Russia during period of Russian Revolution and World War I. Shoreline as seen from a ship moving on the Volga River. A man on the controls of the boat, and shoreline in the background including St George Church in Samara in distant background. Roof views of freight railroad trains in a marshaling yard. Carts in a street market and men, women and children at the informal street market, selling and trading food and goods. Crowd hangs around on streets.
'A' bomb explosion on Able Day during Operation Crossroads in Bikini Atoll. Night view of the explosion and smoke. A mushroom cloud of white smoke and dust moves upwards during the day. U.S. Navy personnel watch the explosion.
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