German offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II. Nazi officers look at a map and discuss plans for attack on Soviet positions. A German reconnaissance plane takes off from an air base. German Stug III Assault Gun being re-armed. Nazi soldiers loaded on Panther tanks advance, with a Sdkfz.251halftrack in Kursk markings, to the battle field. SS commander in Sdkfz.222 armored car. Pz.IV tank of 2.Pz.Div. ("Das Reich") with skirts operating in village. Heavy firing takes place. StuH42 105mm artillery mounted on tank fired. Explosions occur and smoke rises.
Several soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) are seen moving through a trench, carrying supplies to their sector. Snow is on the ground all around the trench. Suddenly they stop and don their gas masks. The sit down in the trench as a gas cloud comes over them. Scene changes to a group of soldiers digging defenses at the base of a earthen berm. A lookout sentry standing above them sees a gas cloud headed their way and alerts everyone. All stop what they are doing, don their gas masks, and take up positions to better observe. Some remain behind the berm and other stand upon it. The next sequence illustrates the use of Ayrton fans to clear gas from a trench. Soldiers waving the fans move, one behind the other, low in a deep trench. In the next scene, drifting gas partially obscures a dugout entrance in a trench. A soldier, uses an Ayrton fan to dispel the gas. In the final scene, soldiers in gas masks are in firing positions in a trench. A gas cloud appears to have dissipated. One soldier removes his gas mask make sure it is safe, and then tells the others, who remove their masks and stow them away. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The first U.S. Air Force jet tanker prototype being assembled in the Boeing Renton plant in Washington, USA. Like the Boeing 707, Its design is based on the Boeing Model 367-80 ("Dash 80"). But it is smaller, overall, than the 707, has a narrower, windowless fuselage, different cockpit window configuration, etc. Engineers are seen looking at design drawings placed on a wing. A worker climbs partway out of cockpit window.. A woman works on an engine nacelle. Several views of the plant interior with all activity concentrated on construction of this single aircraft.
End of World War II in Europe. German prisoners of war are held under guard at the base of the Trinity Column in the Town Square of Linz, Austria. American M4 Sherman tanks loaded with U.S. Army soldiers cross the "Niebelungen" Bridge as they enter the town.
Opening scene behind introductory writing, shows U.S. troops climbing down from a landing craft and walking towards a beach during Normandy invasion of World war 2. Date is D-Day +3 (June 9, 1944) and allies are setting up logistic resupply operations. Views across beach at extreme low tide. A cluster of DUKW amphibious vehicles sitting on the sand, below some cliffs. Some buildings of the French village of Arromanches-les-Bainsin background. Closeup of a demolished French dwelling at base of cliff. Two U.S. soldiers walk along a road at the waterfront, where steel barriers that have been removed from the beach, are piled up. Closeup of the steel barriers. An M4 Sherman tank, equipped with deep wading gear is seen mired in the sand. A closeup of U.S. Landing Craft Tank (LCT-25) on the beach with an M3A1 Half-Track destroyed on its offramp. It had been hit by shell fire on D-day, setting other half-tracks and the landing craft afire. Closeup of the destroyed halftrack.
Several German warships, from Norway, moving through protected waters near shoreline, en route to interdict Allied shipping destined for Murmansk, Russia, during World War 2. A destroyer in camouflage paint passes by the camera ship. Flight crew in Arado 196 float plane and view of it airborne after catapulting from warship. Bow wave view of destroyers at high speed. Port silhouette view of the Bismarck-class battleship, Tirpitz, in camouflage paint. A German Cruiser in camouflage. A land-based Junkers Ju-88 bomber flying low over the water.
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