Demonstration of action of propeller blade of P-3 aircraft in the United states. Reversible propeller blades of American Curtiss P-3 Hawk biplane stops during flight. The pilot reverses pitch on propellers with crank tool. The propeller is reversed. A ground crewman stands in front of the aircraft. The crewman props reverse air blast. He holds checked flag which flows. The hangar in the background. The Curtiss P-3 aircraft takes off from the airfield. The P-3 aircraft taxis and lands at an airfield. The pilot reverses pitch in blade and backs up the aircraft. The aircraft taxis in front of the hangar and stops.
United States Army 4th Cavalry Regiment advance cautiously, firing small arms, as they enter the Erftwerk factory in Grevenbroich,Germany during World War 2. Soldiers fire rifles,carbines and Thompson machine guns at buildings. Damaged buildings in the background. Soldier interacts with a German woman, living nearby. Severa; factory workers are enticed out of air raid shelter. U.S. soldiers talk to the workers and allay their fears.
West Point Cadets from the U.S. Military Academy receive instruction about aircraft, during visit to Mitchel Field, Hempstead, New York. Instructor points out features of aircraft engine exhaust system. A B-6A bi-wing bomber taxiing. Crew loading a two thousand pound bomb under a B-6A, and aerial views of B-6A in flight, with pilots and gunners visible in open air positions. Several O-1D biplanes taking off in loose formation.
West Point Cadets in flight suits, with goggles, prepare for flight at Mitchel Field, Hempstead, New York. Officer gives instruction to the cadets standing at attention. Building in the background. West Point cadets leave building. Others sit on steps of building. West Point cadets, wearing seat-pack parachutes, march down flight line. Row of parked United States Army Air Corps B-6A bomber aircraft. Cadets stand in front of the aircraft, parked with engines running, on the airfield. Cadets climb into B-6A aircraft. Interior of the Cockpit. Cadet and pilot look at map. Nose section of B-6A. Cadet in nose gunner position aims through machine gun sight. Cadet in rear radio operator-gunner position speaks into microphone. Pilot at controls checks engines and instruments. Ground crewmen remove wheel chocks and the aircraft taxi in formation to the runway, and takeoff, one at a time. Aerial view of B-6As in formation flight over Long Island, New York.
Film opens with a slate reading: "Strip Y 46 3/24/45." This refers to Allied Advance Landing Ground, "Y-46 Aachen, Germany." The ensuing film shows numerous gun camera footage clips from U.S. Army Air Force P-47 aircraft of the 365th Fighter Group operating from Y-46 during 16 March through 13 April, 1945, near the end of World War 2. The clips show strafing attacks by the P-47s on German cities. Several of the final attacks seem to be hitting the same city located on a river.
Allied air attack in Germany during World War II. Aircraft gun camera footage shows tracer bullets hit building, vehicles, and a moving train. Grasslands in the background.
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