United States 5th Air Force transport services in the South West Pacific theater during World War II. A mobile hoist loads a large aircraft engine in a United States Army Air Force CG-4A Haig glider named 'General George'. Australian troops unload field artillery and jeeps from a United States Army Air Force C47 Skytrain transport aircraft. The CG-4A Haig glider towed by the C47Skytrain aircraft.
British prisoners in Normandy, France during World War II. The prisoners with their hands raised are led by German guards towards a prisoners of war compound. Smashed British gliders on a field. German troops drive out a jeep from a grounded British glider. Shoulder patches of the prisoners read: 'Nova Scotia Highlanders' and 'Canadian Parachute Battalion'. Interrogation of the prisoners. Wounded prisoners.
Allied ships and aircraft prepare land in Normandy during D-Day in World War 2. Formation of Allied gliders are towed towards the coast of Normandy. Douglas C-47 pulling a glider. Allied warships sailing in rough, choppy waters off the coast of Normandy. A Consolidated B-24 Liberator drops six bombs. Various United States Army aircraft fly with distinctive “D-Day markings” (three white stripes and two black on the wings and fuselages). Bombs explosion. A formation of Martin B-26 Marauders. A ship fires rockets while being covered by smoke. B-17 Flying Fortress in flight. British infantrymen, wearing Pith helmets, on an LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sailing towards Normandy. An LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) ship sailing. Allied aircraft flying over the English Channel.
German Luftwaffe conduct flight tests in Peenemünde, Germany during World War II. German subtitles. Junkers 52 transport aircraft in the Luftwaffe test site in Peenemünde-West. The Junkers 52 (three engine, long wing model) transport aircraft takes off from the runway. The aircraft tows a glider. Junkers 52 take-off from left to right pulling behind the high wing glider. Camera follows in slow pan as the two aircraft take off towards right over wooded area.
Germany conducts Junkers Ju-52 flight and static tests (named as a “secret commando operation” from the German title card) in Peenemünde, Germany during World War II. German subtitles. Junkers 52 aircraft taxiing over open field in the Peenemünde-West test site. The transport plane towing a high-wing glider. The camera follows the Junkers 52 and the glider as the two aircraft take off.
Two Hitler Youth teenagers and a boy talk at a campsite in Chieming, Bavaria, Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth boys carrying a wooden makeshift ladder in the foreground. A younger Hitler Youth boy greets the group with a Nazi Salute and delivers a letter. Two Hitler Youth teenagers, possibly group leaders, read the letter and they shake hands. Hitler Youth teenagers and children begin to march. View of the Hitler Youth camp with tents. An aircraft flies over the camp. Boys bringing firewood to a camp fire area. A boy climbs down from straw wall into an enclosure where "captured" Hitler Youth boys from another group are kept. Two Hitler Youth boys watch a flying aircraft. More Hitler Youth boys watch and point at the aircraft. Aerial view of Hitler Youth camp and Chiemsee lake as seem from a low flying aircraft. Hitler Youth boys watching the aircraft while sitting behind enclosure. Hitler Youth boys, wearing swimming suits, sit on small boats and floating logs in lake Chiemsee. A boy viewing the aircraft falls from floating log. Boys notice the flying aircraft. The small glider aircraft lands in grassy field. Hitler Youth boys from the lake run to meet the pilot of the glider, a Hitler Youth teen leader, who emerges from the aircraft.
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