Nazi Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring inspects an air base in Sicily during World War 2. General Kesselring reviews Luftwaffe troops. Luftwaffe officers assist General Kesselring in walking on muddy field after his boot is lost in the mud. General Kesselring and a Luftwaffe officer inspect a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter. A Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader 53 pilot returns to air base from a mission. Pilot exits fighter cockpit and salutes to his officer. German soldiers with life jackets on a boat, boarding a Dornier DO-24 seaplane. A cartoon on DO-24 depicting a Pinocchio like figure with telescope and goulashes. The Luftwaffe Seenotdienst (Air Sea Rescue Service) seaplane takes off. Pilot operates DO-24 seaplane. A radio operator inside seaplane. A German pilot survivor treading water near Malta. Two German soldiers lower themselves from the seaplane and rescue German pilot. DO-24 seaplane flying before landing in water. On land, German pilot is carried on a stretcher and into an ambulance.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain flying in fog. A radar mobile station with rotating radar dish. C-47 lands on airfield under low visibility conditions. A fighter landing on aircraft carrier deck of a United States Navy aircraft carrier. Large U.S. battleship at sea. Sailor wearing deck-communications helmet. Close up of interior ship siren sounding. United States sailors wake up and jump out of bunks while siren sounds. A radar dish rotating onboard a ship. Hands actuating fire control triggers on a battleship. Multiple U.S. naval ships firing guns night and day. Battleship hit by guns. Battleships firing artillery on enemy ships and shorelines of islands. Submarine underwater. A U-boat submarine periscope seen above water surface. A United States Navy crew operates radar gunnery control system in destroyer, tracking a nearby submarine. Navy captain with sailor at the helm on destroyer. Destroyer shoots depth charges into water. Depth charge flying in air and then detonating in the ocean shortly after its release. Explosions under water destroying the U-boat submarine. Consolidated PBY Catalina flying above a naval flotilla. United States ships navigate through fog. (World War II period)
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on his annual Nordlandfahrt cruise sailing the North Sea in 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands with dignitaries before boarding a car. The Imperial yacht, SMY Hohenzollern II, departs from port, heading back to Germany. German crowds line shore to watch the arrival of the SMY Hohenzollern II. Kaiser Wilhelm II descends gangplank from ship and enters waiting car. Cavalry marshals control crowds in Berlin waiting for Kaiser Wilhelm II arrival. Kaiser Wilhelm II rides an open topped royal carriage to travel back to the New Palace (Neues Palais), in Potsdam. Crowds wave with their hats to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
A naval patrol Zeppelin flying over United States Navy ships sailing the Atlantic Ocean during World War 1. United States battleship at sea. American Expeditionary Forces marching after their arrival in France in June 1917. United States soldiers, also known as “doughboys”, marching with the American flag through a town as French locals watch. A man shakes the hand of a passing soldier. United States troops marching in farmland and forested road.
People worldwide celebrate Armistice Day on 11 November 1918, then end of WWI. Crowds cheerfully wave with their hats in the streets. Some British flags seen. A truck with soldiers and American flags slowly drives in the middle of a crowded road. People cheerfully wave USA flags and hats to celebrate the November 11, 1918 Armistice, which ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and Germany, the last remaining Central Power opponent.
German soldiers firing artillery at Allied and United States invasion forces, probably during the Allied invasion of Sicily in World War 2. German soldier uses binoculars. A group of German soldiers fires a Howitzer field artillery at Allied forces. Howitzer turrets fire shells. Allied ships in the Mediterranean Sea exchange fire with Italian and Nazi German soldiers. A group of Landing Craft Assault (LCA) carries Allied soldiers toward Sicily. United States soldiers on board an Landing Craft Assault (LCA). United States soldiers and military equipment land in Sicily from Landing Craft Assault (LCA).
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