U.S. Task Force off the coast for the invasion of France during World War II. Twin 40 mm anti-aircraft crew aboard a ship fires gun. U.S. PA-26 (attack transport) underway at sea.
B-17Fs of the 8th Bomber Command, 1st Bomb Division, 305th Bomb Group, 366th Bomb Squadron, landing at their base, RAF Chelveston, in Northamptonshire, England, during World War II. The first to land displays a dozen yellow bombs, for missions, painted under the pilot's cockpit window, and Squadron code KY, and L, on its fuselage. Its tail number is 42-5053. The second plane to land displays KY and D, on fuselage, and tail number 42-29553. The third, shows the squadron's KY, but other markings are not readable. The fourth to land displays some mission bombs below its cockpit window, the Squadron KY, and J on the fuselage. Its tail number is 41-21624. Bomb Group tail codes and nose art are not seen on any of the aircraft. But, researchers have identified names of three of them: Bloody Tangier Show (42-5053), Arkie II (42-29553),and Madame Betterfly (41-24624), and estimate the film to have been shot between 3/1/1943 and 5/19/1943.
Crew members of U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombers at an airfield in England during World War II. Members of the crew discuss a mission.
Nazi concentration camp city of Auschwitz in Poland after its liberation by Soviet troops towards the end of World War II. Numerous concentration camp inmates, who have been freed, march on snow. Prisoners behind barbed wires after the surrender of German SS guards. Buildings at Auschwitz. Aerial view of Auschwitz. A blueprint of Auschwitz including barracks and crematoriums. Architectural elevation drawings of the crematoriums and gas chambers. Architectural elevations of the barracks.
Prisoners after the liberation of Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland by Soviet troops towards the end of World War II. Soviet troops talk to prisoners after German surrender of the camp. Prisoners with their belongings leave the camp. An old aged woman is helped by Soviet soldiers. Sick people are carried on stretchers. Prisoners in numerous horse-drawn wagons leave the camp. Large number of very young children are escorted by rescue workers as they leave the camp.
U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell confers with Frank Merrill, Commander-General of U.S. 5307th Composite Unit (nicknamed Merrill's Marauders) in Burma during World War II. Merrill and Stilwell walk along a field and talk. Gliders parked on a field. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop parachute supplies. A U.S. Army Air Force light aircraft taxis for a take off from a jungle strip.
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