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British response to Nazi air raids in Battle of Britain, and use of American radar in the European Theater during World War II.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Opening scenes show bomb damage due to German Luftwaffe blitzkrieg air raids (The Blitz) in Southern Counties of London earlier during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Firemen and rescue workers try to extinguish the fires with water hoses. The rescue workers conduct operations amidst bomb damaged buildings and rubble. Severely damaged buildings. Rubble strewn all over the streets in England. A Food Flying Squad van makes its way on the streets. Food distributed from the van. A British man walks amidst the rubble. Relief work in progress. Buckets of food and water lying at camps. Displaced civilian people eat and drink. London civilian residents evacuate numerous areas. Evacuees walk across a bridge. Big Ben seen in the background. Allied bombers in flight. Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito aircraft track and shoot down enemy aircraft. The dogfights result in mid air explosions. Two soldiers operate a U.S. radar designed to direct antiaircraft fire in combat area. The radar tracks a target moving up to 600 miles an hour. The soldiers track down aerial targets, the gun directors make adjustments and the antiaircraft guns are fired at buzz bombs. Enemy V-1 Flying bombs are hit and downed before they can reach the coastline. German V-1 rockets are tracked over England by radar and shot down. An V-1 is hit. It descends to the ground and explodes. France: A downed V-1 flying bomb is examined. The wreckage of a V-1 in a field. Soldiers and civilians near the wrecked V-1 Flying Bomb
Saga of a U.S. Navy Task Group, the USS Guadalcanal and escorts, that captures the German U Boat (U-505) in World War 2
Historic U.S. Navy capture of German submarine (U-505) during World War 2. Crew assembles on flight deck of the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60). Its Captain, Daniel V. Gallery, looks out from deck above. A Task Group of the Atlantic Fleet, consisting of the Guadalcanal, and five Destroyer escorts: the Pillsbury, Chatelain, Pope, Flaherty and Jenks, proceeds to operate against German submarines West of the Cape Verde Islands. Aboard the Guadalcanal, men train to capture a submarine, intact, if possible. The boarding team includes: Chief Photographer's Mate, Clifford Werler; Chief Pharmacist, Raymond Jackson; LTJG Mylo Keck; Ensign Fred Mittaugh; and Electrician First Class, William Stein; Ensign James Griffin; Machinist Mate 2nd Class, Walter Waller and Commander Earl Torcino. On June 4, 1944, the USS Chatelein makes sound contact with a submarine. The Task Group attacks it and forces it to surface under heavy gunfire. The German crew is rescued. Task Force boarding party successfully occupies and prevents the U-505 from sinking.
U.S. Douglas DT-2 aircraft lands on United States Ship Langley while its is underway in the Pacific Ocean.
United States ship Langley underway as a U.S. Douglas DT-2 aircraft piloted by Lieutenant Commander V.C. Griffin takes off from aboard the Langley. On March 10, 1924 U.S. Douglas DT-2 aircraft comes in for landing and makes a touch and go landing. Aircraft lands on the flight deck. Aircraft taxis along the flight deck of aircraft.
Network of United States Veterans Administration offices serving veterans of World War 2
United States Veterans Administration's role for the war veterans of World War II. War veterans of World War 2 exit a separation center building with smiles on their faces, holding up discharge papers in 1945 at the end of World War 2. Veterans at United States Veterans Administration office. A map of United States depicts the 13 cities in which the Veterans Administration offices have been set up. Map of U.S. depicts the network of Veterans administration offices and traveling Veterans Administration representative locations across the United States. A traveling V.A. representative enters the "John Dyson" grocery, feed, fertilizer, and general store in a small town. Sign outside the building reads "Attention Veterans" and describes the weekly visit scheduled at that location.
British Colonel Archibald Percival Wavell and 2nd Battalion, Black Watch in Oppeln,Upper Silesia
Colonel Archibald Percival Wavell (Rt. Hon. Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell) Commander of the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) is seen conversing with a Colonel of local German forces in Oppeln,Upper Silesia. (This is during the period when elements of the British Durham Light Infantry, the Black Watch and the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Leinsters, were serving, under the auspices of the Inter-Allied Commission of Government and plebiscite, as "peace keepers" to stop conflict between the Germans and Polish insurgents, in Upper Silesia.) Colonel Wavell is showing his counterpart a flexible spring mace, which the latter manipulates and examines. Behind them on a railroad siding are flat cars carrying Mark V tanks of Company B, 5th Battalion, British Tank Corps. Numbers: E18 and E17 appear on two tanks, respectively. Scene shifts to a checkpoint supported by soldiers of the Black Watch. A German officer checks credentials of a civilian leading a goat. He is permitted to pass and walks along smoking a pipe. A German lights the cigarette of a Black Watch soldier. German soldiers relax at edge of woods where they fly the Imperial flag of black, White, and red. A wagon load of German irregulars is pulled by a horse. They display the German flag. A team of horses pulls two caissons with irregulars riding on them.
German civilian Matthias Gierens is hung until death for murdering a downed American flier in Germany in World War 2.
German civilian Matthias Gierens, a 37 year old railroad worker, is hanged in Rheinbach Germany for the August 15, 1944 murder of a downed American flyer, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss, from Forsythe, Montana. Reuss was the navigator on U.S. Army B-17 bomber #42-31183 which was downed by German aircraft after it attacked the Airdrome at Wiesbaden, Germany. Gierens and three other German civilian men, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, for the murder of the American airman after his parachute landing near Priest, Germany. The trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime. Military police are seen escorting Gierens toward the gallows in a prison yard in Rheinbach. A German Catholic priest performs the rites. U.S military officer reads charges as Gierens is readied for execution (the officer is possibly Lt. Col J.V. Roddy, of San Francisco, who was in charge of the hanging). Trap door opens and Gierens is hung. The U.S. Army executioners were Master Sgt. John C. Woods, a former Texas State executioner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas Robinson, of Bronx, New York. Witnesses present included seven U.S. Lieutenant Colonels and one British officer, a number of Military Police, news correspondents, and photographers.
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