U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation in the European Theater during World War II. A strafing attack by LT. Jordan from 352 Sqdn.,353 F.G.on German fighter aircraft Messerschmitt 109 (ME-109). A massive cloud of smoke.
U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation in the European Theater during World War II. 1st LT. A F Blunt from 334 Sqdn., 4th F.G.trails a German fighter aircraft Focke Wulf 190 (FW-190). The aircraft explodes. Grasslands seen.
U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation in the European Theater during World War II. Maj. G Carpenter from 335 Sqdn., 4 F.G.attacks German fighter aircraft Focke Wulf 190, Heinkel 111 and Messerschmitt Me 109. Grasslands seen.
U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation in the European Theater during World War II. LT. Col. Stewart from 354 Sqdn., 355 F.G. trails on the ground targets and German fighter aircraft Focke Wulf 190s .
View from above, of the surrounding walls and courtyard of a prison in Rheinbach, Germany. Ground view inside the prison yard, where German civilian Matthias Gierens is being escorted to the gallows by U.S. military police, and accompanied by a German Catholic priest, on June 29, 1945. They ascend the gallows and final charges and sentence are read to Gierens. Next scene shows bodies stacked up at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany. Scene returns to the gallows, and a hood is placed over Gierens' head. View of Allied army officer witnesses, in formation, at parade rest. Noose is placed over Gierens' hood. View of a a bird flying overhead, trapdoor opens, Gierens drops, and noose tightens. Next is an unrelated scene of several German soldiers being executed. They are seen hanging from four gallows in a line in a public square while a large crowd, possibly Soviet citizens, looks on. (Notes: Regarding the execution of Gierens in the opening scene: German civilian Matthias Gierens was a 37 year old railroad worker. He was executed for the August 15, 1944, murder near Priest, Germany, of a downed American airman, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss. Gierens and three other German civilians, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, of the murder. Their trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime.)
Activities at NAS (Naval Air Station) Cubi Point in Philippines. A worker drives a forklift carrying the Palletized aircraft propeller on a airline. Crewmen inspects the propeller. Crewmen gives direction. The Palletized aircraft propeller is being loaded aboard C-141A Starlifter aircraft.
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