World War 2 Newsreel footage of British air raids on German occupied France, titled "Day and Night R.A.F. makes Nazis take it !" Six Douglas DB-7/A-20 Havoc attack bomber aircraft (American made, but ordered by Britain) take off from England and are seen flying in formation over the English Channel. A-20 Havocs approach beach. A-20 Havocs over French countryside. Point of view footage looking out from cockpit of airplanes flying low over French countryside and approaching German held industrial and chemical plants in Lille making German munitions. View of bombardier pulling bomb release trigger, followed by bombs away view. Damage done by bombing seen. Port and buildings being bombed by A-20 bombers at St. Malo. Explosions seen in dock areas from the air. Back in England, RAF pilots suit-up in cold weather gear for night bombing flights over Germany. View of a line of carrier pigeons each in a box, to be carried in each plane and released if the pilot gets in trouble. A pilot carrying a pigeon in a box. Bomber crews consult together at their planes before boarding. U.S. airmen being trained join together with RAF flyers and board Avro Lancaster bombers for the night raids. Lancaster bombers taxi and takeoff. Halifax III taxiing and taking off. Hawker Hurricane or Spitfire fighters seen in flight ready to engage Nazi fighters. Views of actual bombing raid on a German city by Lancaster bombers. Incoming flak and anti-aircraft fire. Explosions on ground over targets in Germany. [Note: Interestingly, the film uses shots of a German Junkers 88 bomber, instead of a Lancaster, to illustrate the nose of the aircraft at night.]
Franklin Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) shakes hands with U.S. Navy Admiral Harold Stark, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, British Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram H Ramsay, and other British and American naval officers, after visiting them in Stark's headquarters at 20 Grosvenor Square, London, England, during World War 2. Secretary Knox enters a car. Scene shifts to an RAF airfield where Secretary Knox stands with Admiral Stark and two military aides,near the wing of a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 airplane. Stark and Knox stand together and then Knox bids Stark goodbye, as he prepares to board the C-47 airplane. Admiral Stark salutes as Secretary Knox climbs aboard the plane. Admiral Stark and aides wave goodbye as the aircraft taxis out. Several members of British Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) walk across the airfield ramp, as the C-47 taxis out for takeoff
Footage shot during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Pilot seated in cockpit of a RAF (Royal Air Force) Supermarine spitfire single-seat fighter plane. Ground crew check the planes. Spitfire plane in line. Fuel lorry arrives. Planes re-armed and re-fueled. Pilots enter the cockpit. Planes take-off. Spitfire planes in air in formations.
View of a church or monastery with onion dome and cross. German ground crewmen fueling Luftwaffe (German Air Force) Ju 87, Stuka Dive Bomber hidden in woods, during World War 2. German enlisted man closing gas cap on wing of Stuka. German troops, stripped to waist, unload a bomb in a box from a truck. They move the bomb on a dolley to load it on a Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber. Rear seat observer climbs aboard a Ju 87, and takes camera from ground crewman. Stukas taking off. Stukas in formation. Scenes from air, of Ju-87 aircraft attacking lines of communication on the ground. Explosions as bombs strike.
A view of an airfield. Ford tri-motor airplane comes in for a landing. Ford tri-motor airplane taxiing. Henry Ford shakes hand with man coming out of the air plane. Henry Ford and group of men pose under wing of plane. Ford tri-motor airplane stunting, doing rolls and loops in air.
1365th photo squadron film titled 'Missiles boost B-52 effectiveness'. GAM-77 Hounddog and GAM-72 Quail missiles tested. Hounddog being loaded into U.S. Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. B-52 Stratofortress in flight. Quail dropped from B-52 Stratofortress. Men on plotting screen in air tracking station.
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