Strafing and bombing of Japanese installations in the Pacific Theater by U.S. aircraft during World War II, as seen via gun camera footage from U.S. Aircraft. Aerial view of the target area. Smoke rises from the ground. Parked Japanese aircraft in a field are strafed. Smoke rises from the area.
Gun camera footage shot from U.S. aircraft from the USS Bennington (CV-20), attacking Japanese port targets in Kure and Nagoya Japan. Aerial view of the target area. The dockside buildings are strafed. A small freighter underway at sea is attacked and a hangar building is hit.
Strafing and bombing of the Japanese islands during World War II. U.S. Navy TBM Avengers from USS Randolph (CV-15) in flight overhead. Clouds in the sky. Several aircraft flying in formation. Coastline of Shikoku, Japan. Smoke rises from a burning ship. Smoke and flames rise up. Bomb hits on Japanese battleship near the shore.
A film on U.S. Army air-sea rescue operations. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in flight over water. Crew at controls of the aircraft. Number 1 engine is feathered. Then, number 4 engine fails and is feathered. View from behind shows the B-17 descending with all four engines feathered. (Some of these scenes probably employed models.) Crew members in the aircraft. A wireless operator sets a key at automatic SOS. Crew preparing for ditching. The aircraft ditching in the water.Crew evacuates from the ditched aircraft in 6-man life rafts. They employ their various survival gear, including Gibson Girl radio with balloon-mounted antenna, signal mirrors, fishing gear, dye marker, and smoke flares. They are spotted by an Army Air-Sea rescue Douglas A-24 aircraft. The aircraft reports their position and a rescue boat is dispatched to their location. They are reached by U.S. Army air sea rescue boat, number P-249 (An 85 foot, wooden, gas- powered boat, built by Eddy Ship Building, Bay City, Michigan). Crewmen are taken aboard and given refreshments.
Bomb damaged buildings in Berlin, Germany during World War II. The interior and the exterior of the bomb-damaged Reichstag building and Reich Chancellery building. Rubble spread everywhere. Soviet graffiti by soldiers on pillars inside the Reichstag building. A damaged room and its furnishings.
Damaged German Reichstag in Berlin, Germany after World War II. The steel dome of the Reichstag with a horse sculpture on top. A walled gate with debris at its entrance. Steel structured debris spread on ground. Damaged portion of the Reichstag building.
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