Highway through blasted rock in Cullman, Alabama. Truck driven on the road. Clouds in the sky. Trees in the background. Southern Railroad cars atop a railway overpass crossing the highway. Car driven on the road. Traffic on divided highway. Street lights beside road. City in the background. Point of view shots from moving vehicle. At about the 3:35 mark, setting switches to Washington DC, with scenes of buildings and roadway along New York Avenue, and point of view from moving car on New York Avenue. Cars crossing at traffic lights. Various businesses and homes along New York Avenue.
F-51 aircraft of the USAF 18th Fighter Bomber Wing, being refueled at Chinhae Base (K-10) in Korea. . A partially completed aircraft hangar. A soldier stands near it. Gasoline trucks being driven out of the hangar. The sign on the hangar reads 'Refueling, We fuel them, You fly them'. Several F-51s from 2 Squadron of the South African Air Force (SAAF), attached to the 18th Wing, being refueled. They display their logo, a winged tiger, and motto, "Sursum Prorsusque." (Upward and Onward). Close view of the hose of gasoline truck as it unwinds. Meter in operation. An airman refuels one of the P-51s. Pilot in the cockpit.Smoke comes out of the nose section as the aircraft start engines. (Korean War)
F- 51 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force 18th fighter bomber wing landing in Korea on the completion of a mission, during Korean War. Four P-51s in flight. A formation of three P-51s. Mobile control vehicle standing by as F-51s land.F-51s land and taxi into the parking area. Crew chief guides a plane to parking spot. A refueling truck and several planes on the ramp area. One F-51 has 'Sweet Alice' written on it. Two pilots walk away discussing the mission. F-51 that crash-landed seen alongside the runway. Several people near the plane. An insignia on the side of the plane shows two concentric black and white circles with the inner white having a deer painted in it. The pilot shows machine gun bullet holes in fuselage and the tail section of the plane. The P-51 belongs to 2 Squadron, South African Air Force (SAAF) attached to the 18th Wing. Their logo,a winged tiger, and moto, "Sursum Prorsusque." (Upward and Onward) appear on the fuselage.
Allied forces win sea, and air battles in North African Campaign. An allied convoy carries reinforcements towards Africa. Planes of the Axis Forces drop bombs. Explosion in water. The convoy lands in North Africa. Supplies and equipment unloaded from the ships. Soldiers disembark the troop carrier ships adding more soldiers to the North African offensive. German dive bombers attack at night and are beaten off. British troops advance in Tunisia. British soldiers take out land mines as they pursue German forces from the south. U.S. Army soldiers fire artillery during operations in the central area of the battle line. Wrecked Pz.II and Pz.III tanks of the German 10th Panzer Division.
Soviet troops in fierce fighting with German forces at Stalingrad in World War 2. They fire numerous artillery field pieces. Soviet infantry stooping low as they advance. Soviet soldiers firing machine gun.Soviet infantry advancing in courtyard of apartment building, past body of fallen German soldier. German troops abandoning a concrete building behind one carrying a white flag of surrender. German Generals surrendering, walk past body of a fallen Soviet soldier on the frozen ground. German Lieutenant General Alexander Edler von Daniels, Commander of the German 376th Division, salutes as he surrenders. German Lieutenant General Werner Sanne, Commander of the German 100th Jäger Division, is seen in White winter gear, as he walks to surrender. Romanian Brigadier General Demetriou, Commander of the 20th Romanian Infantry, salutes as he surrenders. Five more German generals standing in a group. Closeup of German XIV Corps commander, General Helmuth Schloemer(Schlömer). Lieutenant General Max Pfeffer, Commander, German 297th Infantry Division. Lieutenant General Renoldi, Medical Chief of the 6th German Army. German Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, commander of all Axis forces at Stalingrad, is seen stepping from a staff car and entering the wooden building headquarters of Soviet General N. Shumilov, commander of the 64th Soviet Army. He takes a seat at a table surrounded with by Soviet officers and listens as Shumilov reviews his record. Scene changes to regular German Wehrmacht (Army) troops, outdoors in the cold, along with some of their officers. Long lines of surrendered German soldiers making their way in the snow down slopes and up hills, on their way to POW camps. View of German prisoner lacking adequate footwear during the march. The Red Soviet flag being waved from balcony of a tall building, as line of German prisoners of war proceed below. The line extends as far as can be seen. (Note: At TC: 00:27-39 an apartment house and courtyard is seen in Stalingrad South. As of 2015, it is reported to be the House of Specialists for the Hydrolytic Plant, and still stands west of the intersection of Barrikadnaya & Rozlovskaya Streets.)
Opening scene shows British Avro Manchester bombers lined up on a field in England during World War 2. British air crew board a bomber that taxis out for takeoff. View from inside the aircraft as it lifts off on takeoff and then towards its tail on climb out. Gunner seen manning machine guns as his turret rotates during flight. Formation of Manchester bombers en route to Axis military targets in German occupied France. View from bombardiers position of ground below. The bombardier seen and bombs dropping, as viewed from another bomber in the formation. View from a bomber of railroad yard and an airport with bombs exploding on the ground. Manchester bombers on return flight home over the English Channel. They pass below formation of U.S. B-17 flying Fortresses heading toward France. Close aerial view, from below, of the formation of B-17s overhead. Scene shifts to North Africa, where American Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, famous aviator of World War I, talks pilots of Major General Jimmie Doolittle's Bomber Command. Closeup of General Doolittle smiling outside a tent. A B-17 takes off. An Army cameraman seen inside at a window of the B-17. He is to record an attack on the Sicilian port of Marsala. View from a bomber of bombs exploding along the Port's coast, and of bombs passing the camera as they fall to earth. View from below of a B-17 with battle damage to its left elevator. View from a returning B-17 as it lands at its base in North Africa. Airmen walk around a B-17 that crash landed. One airman walks under part of a bomber tail destroyed by Axis gunfire. Scene shifts to the South Pacific and Allied air attacks against Japanese targets. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers headed toward the Japanese held island of Nauru. Views of bombs striking the island. Scene shifts again, this time to Attu in the Aleutian Islands. A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina flying boat seen in flight. A task force of U.S. Navy warships in Aleutian waters. American amphibious landing on Attu. Arms and supplies piled up on a beachhead. American forces firing artillery. Infantry search for Japanese soldiers in hiding. Bodies of dead Japanese soldiers. American wounded carried on litters. A formation of B-24 bombers headed toward the Aleutian island of Kiska. Closeups of crew members in a B-24. View of glaciers and volcanic mountains below. A bombardier releasing bombs on a Japanese submarine base and airdrome. view of bombs falling. Formation of B-24s releasing their bombs. A gunner in a B-24 firing at attacking Japanese planes and then firing in a low level strafing attack. A U.S. fighter plane lands back at its base on a water-covered runway, raising waves of water that cover cover it.
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