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P-47 of U.S. 8th Air Force, 63rd Fighter Squadron, strafing ground targets of opportunity in Germany near end of WW II

The last month of combat in World War 2, in Europe. Gun camera footage from a U.S. 8th Air Force P-47M of the 56th Fighter Group, 63rd Fighter Squadron. The aircraft strafes German targets of opportunity on the ground including German aircraft. Smoke rises from exploding building. A number of German aircraft burn. Aerial view of green fields and burning German buildings. The pilot is Captain Walter L Flagg of Conimicut, Rhode Island. His aircraft is Number: 44-21140, UN-F, named "Shoot You're Faded."

Date: 1945, April 13
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063608
U.S. 9th Air Force P-47 aircraft of 362nd Fighter Group, 377th Fighter Squadron, strafe German targets at end of World War II

Last days of air war in Germany near end of World War 2. U.S. Airmen holding film slate, on dirt airfield, with P-47 parked behind. Slate identifies location as A-82 (Verdun Airfield, France). Gun camera footage from P-47 flown by pilot named Hunter, of the 9th Air Force, 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 377th Fighter Squadron. Footage shows strafing of German targets along lines of communication.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063609
U.S. fighter planes strafe targets of opportunity in Germany, near end of Second World War

March and April, 1945. Near the end of World War 2, P-47s of the U.S. 9th and 8th Air Forces attacking ground targets in Germany. They strafe various ground targets virtually at will. One chases a German Me-109. Rapid succession of identifying slates and fragments of gun camera footage. The first involves P-47 of the 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 378th Fighter Squadron, operating out of Frankfurt, Rhein Main Airbase (Y-73) Germany. Others involve the 8th Air Force, P-51s of the 338th Fighter Squadron and possibly other units.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063612
Roger Q Williams and Captain Lewis A Yancey land in Rome, Italy

Last leg of transatlantic flight by Roger Q Williams and Captain Lewis A Yancey arriving land in Rome after brief stop in Spain, on their flight from Old Orchard, Maine. They are seen by their Bellanca monoplane named "Pathfinder." Another scene shows Benito Mussolini, dressed in white suit and hat, standing with other officials, awaiting arrival of the aviators. (After 2 hours he must leave and doesn't get to greet them personally.) Night scene of the aviators with Italian crowd of admirers. A large bonfire is lit nearby. Photographers in the crowd.

Date: 1929, July 8
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063650
German soldiers advance during invasion of Poland

Germany invades Poland at start of World War 2. German soldiers march with rifles in hands. Troops march with ammunition loaded carts and bicycles on dirt road. Explosions on Polish territories at night as seen from ship in harbor. Number of camouflaged German artillery pieces fire at Polish positions. Explosions on hillside. German soldiers fire and advance in occupation of Poland

Date: 1939, September
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063667
Germany attacks Poland, September 1, 1939, precipitating World War II

The German attack on Poland, at Danzig (Gdansk) triggering World War 2. Views of German artillery firing at fort and buildings across a stretch of water. German artilleryman looking through periscopic binoculars. Smoke rising from the shelling. German troops firing machine guns. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein is seen bombarding Polish army defenses at Westerplatte. (The battleship had entered the harbor and anchored off Westerplatte, in August, under the false pretense of a friendly visit.) Columns of smoke rising from fires started by the shelling. German troops advancing toward Gdynia in armored cars and trucks. A German officer on horseback. A German soldier on a motorcycle. Two German Panzer II tanks moving down a muddy slope as invasion begins. Army vehicles on wet roads and infantry making their way across a shallow streams. Infantry marching along a road. Closeups of the German soldiers as they pass the camera. Officers in a staff car. View from a height of smoke rising from fires on the ground in distance, mixing with cumulus clouds above. (Note: some English narrative begins late in the film, around TC: 00:58)

Date: 1939, September 1
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063679