Manufacture of United States Army Air Force B-26 Marauder medium bombers in the United States during World War II. Men work on the bomber aircraft. Other men stand near the aircraft. An aircraft is camouflaged before it leaves the factory. The aircraft parked outside the factory. Men stand nearby. Men check the parts of the airplane.
Manufacture of United States Army Air Force B-26 Marauder medium bombers in the United States during World War II. Completed B-26 aircraft lined up at a field for their final check up. Testing of landing gear of an aircraft before its test flight. Men standing near the aircraft. A man boards the airplane. The airplane takes off from the field and is in flight.
Activities of German officials at the Tunisian front in North Africa during World War II. A German airplane in flight. The airplane lands on a field. A pilot comes out of the airplane. He meets officials. German officials including German Air Force General Albert Kesselring discuss amongst themselves. The pilot tells his experiences to the officials.
Smoke rising from fire burning on West bank of the Don River in Russia. Camera pans down to river and some German soldiers crossing on what appears to be partly a pontoon bridge and partly remnants of a damaged one. German troops hunkered down on the West side by the damaged bridge. Horses and damaged vehicles clutter the approach to the bridge in a scene of utter destruction. Camera pans across scene of fire, smoke, and war materiel abandoned by the Russians. The area has bee devasted by attacks from the air and heavy shelling. Away from the river, two German soldiers ride in motorcycle and sidecar. Barrel of a siege gun is raised and fired. German soldiers remove tree branches camouflaging an 8.8cm anti-aircraft gun to fire on attacking soviet bombers (not seen). Others firing a Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun. View of an airplane, hit by the gunfire, falling with smoke trailing.
Antisubmarine activities of the United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Cutters and airships of the USCG and U.S. Navy patrol around a convoy underway. U.S. Navy airship in the air. The U.S. Navy, the USCG and the U.S. Merchant Marine work together. An officer watches enemy action through binoculars. The U.S. flag flying from a flag mast. A man watches through binoculars and other men prepare for a counter attack. Man operates signal light to relay information. Depth charges readied and guns are fired from the ships. They sink a German submarine after it torpedoes a merchant ship. Merchant seamen come aboard a cutter from a life raft.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on 7th December 1941. Dramatized view of Japanese airplanes in flight over Pearl Harbor. They drop bombs over the target area. Actual footage of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with heavy columns of smoke rising as ships explode. U.S. sailors on the deck of a ship. The activities at a U.S. shipyard. Launching in July 1942 of the SS Ocean Viceroy, built by Permanente Metals Corp in Richmond California for the British Ministry of War Transport. People gather at the shipyard as the SS Ocean Viceroy is launched. A ship convoy underway at sea of various cargo ships and Liberty Ships in World War 2. The U.S. flag flying from a flag pole on a ship. The sailors march on the deck.
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