United States B-24 Liberator, drops bombs on German targets during Second World War. Bombs impact as B-24 goes into a dive. American P-47 aircraft in aerial action against German fighters. German ME-109 and ME-110 being shot down explode in mid air.
German gun camera footage of United States B-24 bombers being attacked by various Focke Wulf FW 190A fighter planes during WWII. Inserted slates indicate the name of the pilot (von Hinton) and the range at which each attack commences and is broken off. Shown are FW-190 attacks on individual and formations of U.S. B-24 bombers. Attacks are both head-on and from the rear of formations. Several B-24s are severely damaged and possibly destroyed in the air. Some views show other German fighter aircraft also attacking through the same B-24 formations
A MIS-X officer representing the Prisoners of War Branch interviews American soldiers who escaped from and were then rescued from Japan's 10-A camp in Palawan, Philippines. Private first class Edwin A Petry describes the murder of American soldiers by forcing them to enter a bomb shelter, pouring gasoline, setting the gasoline alight and shooting the men who tried to escape. With the help of a map he also describes how he along with a companion managed to escape from the prison camp by crashing through the barbed wire and swimming across the bay. They were later evacuated to Morotai by 13th Army Air Force Catalina.
United States Army Air Forces pilot fliesYR-4 Whirlaway helicopter duriing World War 2. He handles the control stick as instrument panel is seen. Helicopter lands in a grassy field. Helicopter in flight as pilot handles control stick. Whirlaway hovers over a crashed B-25J of the 83rd Bomb Squadron, 12th BG, in a grassy field.
United States Sikorsky H-6 helicopter carrying wounded soldiers lands in Luzon,Philippines, after World War II. Five men look at the wounded soldier as he is released from a litter pod. A man lying on stretcher in Stinson L-5B smokes a cigarette. A wounded soldier inside an L-5B air craft as Philippine children stand near the plane. L-5B takes off and is refueled later. Natives and military men stand near an H-6. An H-6 lands carrying a wounded soldier. Soldier is taken out of H-6.
Volunteers of rescue party rest in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. United states L-5 aircraft guides the volunteers through the jungle. A man examines a wrecked PT-19 and a hospital tent. C-47 air craft drops supply parachutes. Men look through the parachute for radios, engineering and medical supplies. Men run after setting off charges to blast trees for helicopter string. Trees fall after the blast.
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