United States Sailors board a U.S. ship in the United States. The sailors with baggage board the ship. One of the sailors puts his clothes in his locker. The sailors undergo medical examination. A doctor checks heart beat and blood pressure of the sailors. They also undergo an eye test.
United States soldiers on a field in Germany during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt create vapor trails in the sky. The large formation of American aircraft create various patterns in the sky with contrails (condensation trails). View of the Rhine River and an old castle on a hilltop alongside the river. A German military cemetery with many newly dug graves and grave markers bearing the Cross pattée with a swastika symbol in the center. United States soldiers look at a map on the hood of an army jeep.
U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers strike targets in Germany near the end of World War 2. Formation of USAAF B-17 bombers in flight over Germany, as viewed from ball turret of another B-17. The B-17s display checkered tails of the 385th Bombardment Group, stationed at RAF Great Ashfield, England. There is some camera movement that soon focuses on bombs away view and bombs falling from the B-17s. Some incendiary bombs are seen streaming white smoke (possibly M-17 or M-19 incendiaries). Numerous flames erupt simultaneously as clusters of indendiary bombs ignite on contact with the ground. Camera rotates around during filming as the ball turret rotates. White smoke rises from the ground.
Allied aircraft exercise air superiority near end of World War II. United States aircraft strafe German targets at dusk. Burning German aircraft on the ground. United States Army Air Force P-51 Mustangs in flight with the sun setting in the background. German ME-109 aircraft being hit by U.S. aircraft.
Allied air operations near end of World War 2, in Europe. Gun camera footage from a P-47M of the U.S. Army Air Forces 8th Air Force, 56th Fighter Group, 63rd Fighter Squadron, strafing German aircraft on the ground at an airfield in Germany. The pilot is Captain Walter L Flagg, of Conimicut, Rhode Island. He is flying P-47M, Number: 44-21140, UN-F, "Shoot You're Faded". Burning German aircraft on the ground. Aerial view of bomb damaged city.
U.S. 8th Air Force fighter aircraft operate unopposed over Germany in final days of World War 2. Gun camera footage from P-47M, of the 56th Fighter Group, 63rd Fighter Squadron, tail number 44-21112, UN-Z, "Ungly Duckling," flown by Major George E. Bostwick, of Dayton, Ohio. He strafes and destroys 5 German aircraft on the ground.
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