United States 8th Air Force Division attacks ordnance plant at Ingolstadt, Germany. American B-17 Flying Fortress bombers fly in formation and, through gun camera footage, are seen as they drop bombs on the target military ordnance plant. Bombs impact causing fire and smoke. The munitions plant is demolished.
United States 8th Air Force Division attacks marshalling yards and railway installations in Neumunster, Germany. Gun camera footage shows bombers as they drop bombs to destroy German marshaling yards and railway installations. Fire and smoke seen in target area after bombing.
American 8th Air Force Division attacks a key railway center in Regensburg, Germany. B-17 bombers drop bombs to destroy a railway center Gun camera footage shows bomb impact causing a pillar of smoke to rise.
Numerous clips of German gun camera footage from Focke Wulf FW-190 fighters attacking formations of United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 bombers, of the 8th Air Force, engaged in high altitude daylight bombing missions.
A documentary titled 'Fall of Rangoon'. Soldiers of British Indian 50th Parachute Division board aircrafts for airborne attacks on Rangoon,Burma. Soldiers of 26th Indian Regiment reach the banks of river Rangoon in boats as large number of Burmese welcome them. Soldiers march into the city without encountering enemy. Allied forces capture the city.
A MIS-X officer representing the Prisoners of War Branch interviews American soldiers who escaped from and were then rescued from Japan's 10-A camp in Palawan, Philippines. Private first class Edwin A Petry describes the murder of American soldiers by forcing them to enter a bomb shelter, pouring gasoline, setting the gasoline alight and shooting the men who tried to escape. With the help of a map he also describes how he along with a companion managed to escape from the prison camp by crashing through the barbed wire and swimming across the bay. They were later evacuated to Morotai by 13th Army Air Force Catalina.
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