Christening of new German aircraft in presence of cabinet ministers in Germany. Crowd assembled around an aircraft. The new aircraft, "Hindenburg", is christened by Minister of Aviation, Hermann Goering, in presence of other cabinet ministers.
U.S. infantrymen and tanks advance through Hurtgen Forest, Germany during World War II. Group of U.S. M-10 GMCs (Gun Motor Carriages) moves along crooked, steep road in forest. Medics in forest bandage U.S. soldier's leg wound. Soldier assists soldier, a shock victim, from forest. Infantrymen move through forest. Infantrymen take cover from enemy.
German staged documentary titled 'Deutsches U-Boot Auf Kaperfahrt' shows a German submarine cruise at a German coast during World War I. German ships and U-boats at a dock in Germany. A German Navy officer disembarks from a ship at the dock. Torpedoes and supplies are loaded up on a U-boat. Crew members come aboard the U-boat. They push the ship away from the submarine. The German U-boat puts out to sea.
A German documentary about German U-boats attacking enemy ships in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. A German U-boat underway in Atlantic ocean or North Sea Atlantic. The U-boat surfaces and goes underwater. Interiors of the U-boat showing German Navy personnel at work. An enemy ship is sunk by the Germany U-boat torpedo attacks.
Workshop of German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling, in Ahrenshorst or at Osnabruck, Germany. Various models of his postal rockets (recoverable rocket for mail delivery) are seen in the shop. A sketch and stringed models show how the wings fold about the rocket for launching and unfold for gliding descent after the rocket has finished firing. Next, a number of similar-looking rockets or gliders are seen on the ground in a field. Their wings appear to fixed open. The closest one appears to have a radio antenna attached at its wing root. Several young men are occupied with one of the gliders on the ground. Another holds a kite. What is possibly a rocket launching tube sits on a tripod in the background. Closeup of one of the gliders on the ground. Change of scene shows a cylindrical solid fuel rocket on a tripod launcher. The rocket nose is shown without the lower portion. Next, the rocket is seen set up on a beach next to a body of water, where is is ignited and launches at a low angle, in a cloud of white smoke.
Rocket propulsion history in Germany. Men gather around a liquid oxygen tank during fueling of rocket car driven by Max Valier. He drives his white car along an airport ramp, past a twin engine high-wing monoplane. In the final scene, from April 1930, Valier is shown smiling as he sits in his liquid rocket propelled car, surrounded by spectators.
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