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British coastal defenses battle incoming German aircraft during Battle of Britain in World War 2

On sighting of incoming German aircaft, British soldiers scramble to trench battle positions with anti aircraft guns (ack ack guns) at British aerodromes. British pilots race to waiting Hawker Hurricanes and take off to fight the German Luftwaffe aircraft. Ground views of battle unfolding in the air. Smoke in sky from battle. Captured German air crew members are escorted by armed British guards. One is smiling. British Hurricane back at airbase for refueling and more ammunition. Smoke in distance across English Channel shows results of British offensive action. Official seen collecting pieces of a struck enemy aircraft. Narrator cautions viewers to not touch such pieces if they find them as "your curiousity may upset the work of examining experts." British Hurricanes and spitfires return to airbase. British pilots in discussion with a pilot from Poland. As pilots are shown, narrator says, "never in the history of human conflict, have the many owed so much to the few."

Date: 1940, September
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063097
United States paratroopers descend from C-47 Skytrain aircraft in Germany.

United States Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft drop supplies and paratroopers in Germany during World War II. The aircraft fly in formation. Smoke screens on the ground laid down by the Germans. Aerial view of green fields on the ground. U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress in flight. Paratroopers descend from C-47 Skytrain. A fleet of aircraft fly away after dropping parachutes.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063566
United States Republic P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft strafe ground targets in Germany.

Gun camera footage of United States Army Air Force Republic P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft strafing ground targets in Germany, virtually unopposed, during final months of World War II in Europe. Shots are seen from three different P-47s of the 9th Air Force, 362nd Fighter Group, 377th Fighter Squadron. Film from Pilot, Martin, shows strafing at targets of opportunity in cities and towns. Film from pilots, McAuley and Carlisle, shows concentration on lines of communication: railroads, roads, bridges, etc. But also show strafing of power plant and a tank on the road.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063579
United States P-51 Mustangs strafe German targets on the ground in Germany near end of World War II.

Air operations near end of World War Ii in Europe. United States Army Air Force P-51 Mustangs aircraft strafe German targets on the ground. Smoke rises from the bombed areas. Explosions on German buildings. Aerial view of bomb damaged buildings.

Date: 1945, April 10
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063604
U.S. fighter planes strafe targets of opportunity in Germany, near end of Second World War

March and April, 1945. Near the end of World War 2, P-47s of the U.S. 9th and 8th Air Forces attacking ground targets in Germany. They strafe various ground targets virtually at will. One chases a German Me-109. Rapid succession of identifying slates and fragments of gun camera footage. The first involves P-47 of the 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 378th Fighter Squadron, operating out of Frankfurt, Rhein Main Airbase (Y-73) Germany. Others involve the 8th Air Force, P-51s of the 338th Fighter Squadron and possibly other units.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063612
Three Russian airmen land in San Jacinto, California, after flight from Moscow, Russian, over the North Pole

Aerial view from airplane flying low over a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California, shows cars and people below, gathered around a parked Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft that landed there on July 14, 1937, after a nonstop flight over the North Pole, from Moscow, Russia. Closeup of local people standing in roped off area, looking at the airplane. Scene changes to Soviet pilot, Mikhail Gromov; Co-pilot, Sergei Danilin, and Navigator, Andrei Yumashev, meeting the Press, 20 miles away, on veranda at March Army Air Field Officers Club. Back at the landing site, local people walk under the aircraft wings and examine it closely. Letters "25ND25" are stenciled under the left wing. Back at March Field, American Air Corps officers shake hands with the Soviet flyers.

Date: 1937, July
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063618