At the Führer Headquarters (Führerhauptquartiere) or Wolf’s Lair, in Gierłoż, East Prussia (later Poland), German leader and Führer Adolf Hitler walks in a garden with a group of Nazi senior officials during World War 2. Hitler salutes guards while passing them. Hitler and the group of officials enter headquarters. Hitler meets with Otto Skorzeny, an Austrian-born SS Lieutenant Colonel ( Obersturmbannführer ) in the Waffen-SS. View of Skorzeny talking to Hitler.
During World War 2, a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor aircraft taxis into Zaporozhye (Zaporizhzhia) airfield. German leader Adolf Hitler, wearing ear plugs, gets off the plane, passing by his personal pilot Hans Baur performing the Nazi salute. Hitler meets Eastern Front General Commander Erich von Manstein and the two look at a map on a table with other army officials. Hitler points to the map as they discuss. A Mercedes-Benz 770 automobile drives onto the airfield to waiting Wehrmacht soldiers. A soldier opens the door. Hitler and some officials get out of the car. Hitler shakes hands with Manstein and they salute each other good-bye. View from behind Hitler, seated inside the plane and wearing ear plugs, as he waves through the window as the plane takes off. The plane’s left wing is seen as it flies in the sky.
A German battleship sails in strong waves in the Norwegian Sea at start of Operation Zitronella during World War 2. German Kriegsmarine Navy lookouts survey the surroundings with binoculars, camera pans to show the waves. A destroyer sailing. Men in life-jackets on deck. A Kriegsmarine smokes his pipe on deck. Navy sailor in sunglasses smokes cigarette. View of the Norwegian sea with German destroyers and Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on deck. A dinghy boat hanging above the waters. Captain on the battleship Tirpitz, Vice-Admiral Friedrich Karl Topp, surveys Spitsbergen through binoculars. Battleship Tirpitz and other destroyers sail near Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on the gun turret of the Tirpitz are ready to fire (38 cm SK C/34 naval guns). Rounds fired towards Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine men deploys a dinghy to the waters. Guns again fired on Spitsbergen. A dinghy with Kriegsmarine men deploys to the sea. Another round of fire towards the island again. A picket boat from a battleship prepares to sail. Another dinghy is deployed from a battleship. A German soldier gets into the dinghy. German soldiers climb down a steel ladder to get on a picket boat. A dinghy full of soldiers sails towards the island. More boats filled with soldiers deploy from the battleships towards the island. A dinghy sails away from a battleship. Spitsbergen island covered in smoke. Smoke coming from the sailing battleship firing more ammunition. German soldier in a life-jacket smiling and sticking his tongue out as his group sails towards the island. Boats approach Spitsbergen island. Soldiers get off their boats after landing on the island. the island. Soldiers tie three explosives on a post. German soldiers patrolling nearby as an explosion occurs. Boats filled with soldiers sail back to the battleships after they successfully seized the installations on the island. Soldiers in life-vests climb back to the battleships. Two German soldiers helped a comrade climb up to the battleship. A victorious German soldier smiles. German soldiers congratulates each other for the successful takeover of Spitsbergen. Battleships successfully sail with Spitsbergen in the background.
A map of the Eastern Front (Present-day Ukraine) is being displayed during World War 2. German Field Marshal and Flying Ace Robert Ritter von Greim, wearing glasses, is in a meeting with Luftwaffe officials. A sign in front of bushes saying “Gruppen- Befehlsstelle” ("Group command post" in German). Nazi soldiers smiling and laughing as they play card games in a field. The soldier wearing an Iron Cross medal turns his head on his left. Airplanes in the sky. A soldier, wearing an Iron Cross medal, climbs on a jet-fighter written “13”. The pilot of the jet-fighter (Messerschmitt Me 262 with the Nazi swastika on the empennage) facing the camera as he prepares for take-off. Plane takes off. A group of fighters with explosion in the sky. German soldiers survey the field with binoculars. Fighters firing at one another in the sky. Anti-aircraft guns fire towards the sky, towards the fighters. A Messerschmitt Bf 109 zooms in the sky. Soldiers, sitting in the field, are looking up in the sky. A Soviet plane is on fire up in the sky, heading downwards. The soldiers, with binoculars, are observing the falling plane. The Soviet plane falls and crashes into the other side of the field. The plane explodes. A plane zooms in the sky. A Luftwaffe pilot smiles as he climbs down the plane. The pilot shakes hands with a comrade. The Luftwaffe reconnaissance flew back. German soldiers in the field looks up to the sky. A pilot jumps down from the aircraft parked in the field. Soldiers put out aircraft fire with flame retardant foam. Operator views large format film emulsion images obtained through aerial reconnaissance. Luftwaffe officials in a meeting. Grille of a Wehrmacht truck.
Opening slate reads, “Sensational War Films YAMAMOTO SHOT DOWN! South Pacific”. Image of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, in full navy regalia. Another image of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in black navy uniform. United States soldiers riding a military jeep wave at the camera as their jeep drives in Guadalcanal Island during World War II. United States Army Air Force airmen are posing in front of a fighter for a camera. Airmen shake hands with each other. Airmen are talking to each other, with a fighter behind them. Three airmen laugh facing the camera. The camera pans to identify the airmen Lieutenant Besby Holmes, Captain Tom Lanphier and Lieutenant Rex T. Barber. A radio operator tapping out morse code on radio equipment. Japanese airmen receiving orders. A Japanese bomber with engines running. United States airmen run to their fighters. Airmen working on an engine and fueling aircraft to prepare for a mission. Airmen sitting on a bench listening to an officer pointing to a board. The officer, in sunglasses, points to a map titled “Target for Today”. Closeup of map, “Target for Today.” United States soldier smokes a cigarette.
During World War II, Major John W. Mitchell (339th Fighter Squadron) is seated in the cockpit, the cockpit canopy opened. Smiling briefly, Mitchell puts on and adjusts his helmet with goggles. Mitchell closes the cockpit canopy. Another United States Army Air Force pilot of the 339th Fighter Squadron is seated and gives a thumbs-up at the camera. The pilot smiles and adjusts his helmet before closing the cockpit canopy. Another pilot adjusts his helmet as he smiles to the camera and closes the cockpit canopy. Pilots smiling at the camera before adjusting their helmets and closing their cockpit canopies. These are the 339th Fighter Squadron Pilots who intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. View of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
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