Activities at a weather station in the South West Pacific theater during World War II. A sign board on a tent reads "Colin Weather Station". Trees in the background. A man checks a shelter and records data. He climbs up a steel pole and checks an anemometer.
Operation "Rutter,"(aka Operation Jubilee) the ill-fated Allied raid on Dieppe, France, conducted by the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division and British Commandos plus some Inter-allied commandos, during World War 2. Map highlighting Dieppe. Low-flying British Royal Air Force Spitfire aircraft attacking German positions. German gunners firing heavy field gun from a grove of trees. Batteries of German antiaircraft guns firing from positions in hillsides. Explosions close to the camera. Fortified German gunners firing quad 2 cm Flakvierling 38 antiaircraft gun. A German 8.8 cm Flak 18 antiaircraft gun in operation. Explosions on the beachhead. German soldiers at roadside, one with a hand grenade. Another huge explosion near the camera. View from inside fortified German position, as soldier fires MG42 machine gun. View through window of building as bomb or shell explodes close by. View of Allied beachhead in disarray as Allied raiders are taken prisoners of war. Several are ambulatory wounded and another is carried on a stretcher. A German Junkers Ju 88 bomber overhead, bombs an allied ship at the waterfront. Wounded Allied soldiers lying on the beach with knocked out Churchill tank and a burning landing craft behind them. Abandoned landing craft on the beach. A larger ship afire. Allied soldiers being gathered up by German soldiers. One gives a drink to an Allied soldier in a landing craft. Remnants of Allied forces being escorted as prisoners of war along a road with seaside Church of Notre-dame-de-bon-secours in the background. Some prisoners are barefoot. One is carried on a litter. Burning landing craft on the beach. Canadian soldiers march with hands raised. Views of damage to buildings in Dieppe, from bombing and shelling. Canadian prisoners of war being escorted by German guards through town. View from high point overlooking Dieppe, showing the town, with smoke rising in places, and the beach with Allied boats and equipment strewn on it.
Helicopter development in Germany. German Focke Achgelis Fa 223 Drache helicopter in flight. It lands on airstrip. Trees in the background. Views from several angles of the helicopter, including Swastika sign on tail. It takes off from airstrip. Helicopter in flight. Men attach an aircraft wing to sling of helicopter. Helicopter flies away, with the cargo of airplane wing, suspended beneath. The helicopter lowers the wing to the ground. Men attach damaged aircraft engine to helicopter sling. Helicopter delivers aircraft engine to grass field at airport destination.
German Focke Achgelis Fa 223 Drache helicopter in flight over ground. A German light airplane parked at airfield. Man fastens the airplane to helicopter sling. Helicopter lifts the airplane and places it on nearby ground.
As German Focke Achgelis Fa 223 Drache helicopter hovers over a snow covered field, a man climbs down a ladder from the helicopter and then back up again. The helicopter in flight with a vehicle suspended on its sling. The helicopter picks up an airplane fuselage and flies away with it. The helicopter lands, without any cargo, at a field.
Use and manufacture of artillery during World War II. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler giving Nazi salute and German troops marching. A newspaper headline reads 'Poland Invaded'. Japanese zero aircraft in flight and bomb strikes on U.S. Navy ships at Pearl Harbor. Scenes from water of the devastation in Pearl Harbor after attack by Japanese aircraft on U.S. Navy ships. A flight of U.S. Navy Douglas TBD torpedo bombers dropping torpedoes. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated at a desk signing declaration of war, in 1941. U.S. war production workers manufacturing tanks, guns, ammunition, artillery, shells, and jeeps in arms and munitions factories. War materiel including Army jeeps and tanks loaded with soldiers on parade. U.S. troops firing artillery in North Africa. U.S. forces advancing through wet jungles in the Pacific Theater of World War 2.
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