Celebration of Army Day in Manhattan, New York City, United States, in 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor causing the U.S. to enter World War 2.. View from high on a building overlooking 5th Avenue and Central Park, of U.S. Army units parading on Army Day. Street-level view shows color guard followed by marchers. Central Park is seen at left, and spectators line sidewalks on both sides of Fifth Avenue. The street is wet and many spectators carry umbrellas. A reviewing stand, on the Central park side of the Avenue, contains military officers and political leaders. Among those seen are: Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum, who is flanked in the front row by New York Governor, Herbert Lehman, and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Next to the Mayor, A Fire Chief represents the NYFD ( the Commissioner was being replaced) and next to him is NYPD Commissioner Lewis Valentine. They are seen saluting. In the line of march members of the 44th Division Ski Patrol are seen carrying their skis. People sit with umbrellas to watch the parade. Some bleachers set up have few spectators, because of the rain. A child watches the soldiers. Troops of the U.S. 157th Field Artillery Regiment ride in trucks, pulling 37mm antitank field pieces and 105mm howitzers. More views from a high building overlooking the parade.
A Nazi German Messerschmitt Bf 110, (Me 110) in a hangar of the Vultee aircraft manufacturing company in Downey, California, early in World War 2, and before America's entrance into the war. The aircraft (possibly captured by the British?) is seen going through inspection by workers at the Vultee plant. There are some bullet holes and signs of damage in the captured plane. Men in the cockpit of the plane inspect it. Other men watch.
Viceroy Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, reviews rally of the Bombay Civil Defense Organizations in Bombay, India. British Viceroy's car arrives. He comes out of his car and officers greet him. Guards of the Civil Defense Organizations stand in formation. Buildings and trees in the background. Ambulances parked on the ground. Viceroy inspects a line of Red Cross and ARP workers. He greets a Red Cross worker.
A man determines the carbon forming tendency of oil in Indiana. This is done through actual tests on a motor. A man collects the carbon from the motor and weighs it. Test tubes on table contain different oils to determine which oil forms what amount of carbon. Test tubes of oil number 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the table and the amount of carbon formed by them.
Allied bombers attacked by German 'flak ships' in English channel during World War 2. German AA crew members look out for allied bombers in skies and open fires. Shows a heat seeking missile chasing its target. German Messerschmitt Fighter pilots in battle above the Atlantic. Inside the cockpit view of a German pilot in mid air. Luftwaffe Me-109 and Me-110 aircraft open fire on U.S. B-24 Liberators and U.S. B-17 Fortresses and some are seen in flames. U.S. pilots eject in mid air. Smoking wreckage of downed U.S. fighters. Captured U.S. Army Air Force pilot taken away by German captors as a prisoner.
Formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17s on a bombing raid into Germany during World War 2. A formation of U.S. P-38 fighter aircraft escorting the bombers. German Me-109s engage the U.S. Army Air Force P-38 fighter aircraft in dogfights. German gun camera view of B-17 being fired upon. Several German FW-190s in the air. Gun camera view of B-17 having its wing shot off and another being raked with gunfire by a German fighter plane passing from behind and over it. View of a German Me-109 and gun camera showing B-17 being shot to pieces from behind. A U.S. Douglas Dauntless aircraft in flight, and one being shot at by a German FW-190. Formation of USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers viewed from behind. More gun camera footage of FW-190 shooting a B-17 from behind, putting one engine out of commission and severly damaging it. More Me-109s in flight. More B-17s being shot from behind. One dramatic shot of a U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber being attacked by a German plane, from the front and top. A B-17 being shot and burning. Footage includes occasional views of German pilots in cockpits pressing gun firing buttons on the control stick.
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