Montage of scenes from air war in Europe, covering period from about 1943 through 1945 during World War Two. U.S. P-47 and P-38 fighter aircraft being unloaded from a ship at a port in Europe during the Second World War. A line of P-47s on an airfield. German aircraft taking off and inflight, including: Me-109; He-111 bombers; Me-110 fighters; and Fw-190 fighters. U.S. P-51s firing at and destroying German aircraft. Multiple aerial dogfight scenes with gun camera footage showing dramatic mid air explosions of various enemy German aircraft. U.S. B-17s flying to Berlin and back again, with P-51 fighter escorts. P-38 aircraft flying in formation and returning from escort duty, seeking targets of opportunity, strafe German airfields, and fire on German aerodromes and parked aircraft, destroying many airplanes.
American Red Cross hospital area in Munich during World War II. Patients are carried out from tents and placed in ambulances on stretchers. Ambulance drives off. Patients are loaded into C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Ambulance pulls off. Aircraft door closes. C-47s taxiing on runway for take off.
Large formations of U.S. aircraft in flight over Germany, after VE day in World War II. Many different kinds of aircraft are seen. A brief glimpse of airfield control tower is seen. Many varied cloud formations form backdrop to the aircraft.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft at airfield in Germany. Front view of Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft taking off from runway in Germany. (World War II period)
Various United States fighter aircraft , including those of 36th and 373rd Fighter Groups, on Le Culot Airfield (A-89), Beauvechain, Belgium. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane cartoon insignias on nose art include the following P-47 names: De Poiple Shaft III, B-3, Little Rocket, Hazel Honey, Easy's Angels and Bitterbitcher III. P-38 Lightning planes in flight.
Gun camera footage of aircraft from 8th Fighter Command iloted by Lieutenant Colonel Rimerman of 352nd Squadron, attacking German enemy targets. Rimerman's aircraft makes several passes over a train and strafes the cars. Multiple explosions seen along with smoke. Aircraft targets and hits a lone truck on a road, and then is seen strafing various motor vehicles and trucks along several sections of roadway.
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