USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) bombing operations over Germany during World War 2. Aircrews leave briefing room. Aircrew on jeep being taken to U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bomber plane. Ground crews waving to pilot. B-17 engine starts and plane taxis. B-17 takes off. U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber takes off. B-17 takes off. Formation of B-17s. USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt fighters taxiing. Airman fires gun. P-47s and F-38s take off from an airfield. Formations of B-17s with USAAF P-38 Lightning fighters overhead escorting. P-47s escorting B-17s. Interiors showing German raid alert room as word comes of an American raid. German anti-aircraft gunners in action. Formation of B-17s as flak bursts around them. German crew chief helping pilot into a parachute, pilot gets into a plane. German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes take off from airfield. Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter planes and Messerschmitt Bf 109 planes buzz airfield. Formation of B-17s escorted by P-47s and P-38s. Aerial view of German fighter being shot down. P-38s and P-47s peel off to meet a German fighter plane in aerial dogfight. Several views of German aircraft exploding and catching fire in air. Aerial formations of B-17s in sky leaving vapor trails. Interiors of aircraft showing gunners. B-17 with tail shot away. German fighter planes attack B-17 formations. B-17 on fire spinning towards the ground. B-17 formations flying through flak. Bombs being dropped by B-17s over German targets. Close view of bomb bay doors opened and bombs being released from bombers.
U.S. Air Force operations in the European Theater during World War 2. A bombardier gets out of the nose of a U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber plane. Pilots talk beside a B-17. An animation of number of sorties and tons of bomb drops over enemy target. Aerial point of view (POV) shots from cockpit of a US Army air force aircraft in flight on an attack run flying low over houses and industry of enemy territory in Europe during World War 2. An aerial formation of B-17s, P-39 Airacobra fighters, B-24 Liberator bombers and P-38 Lightning fighters. Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler giving an impassioned, animated, emotional speech. German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in a conference. American men and women war production workers inside a factory making war materiel. U.S. firing squad fires salute over a grave. An airplane burns and a crew member face down on the grass. U.S. Army Air Force fighters and bombers in flight and bombs away views as bombers drop bombs on German targets .
Japanese air raid over Saipan during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers parked at an airfield in Saipan, Mariana Islands. Crewmen work on a B-29. Pilots being briefed by USAAF Brigadier General Emmett O'Donnel. B-29s take off from an airbase. B-29s fly through flak. Bombing of Tokyo by B-29s. Wreckage of B-29s after Japanese air raid on Saipan. Firefighters in action. Black smoke rises from the burning B-29s. A Japanese plane goes into a kamikaze suicide dive over Saipan.
U.S. Navy PB4Y Liberator patrol bomber aircraft with an aerial camera in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Air crewmen exit quonset hut. Air crewmen walk to PB4Y Liberator aircraft parked in the background on the island. Air crewmen enter PB4Y with aerial camera.
U.S. Army Colonel Keith K. Compton, commander of the 376th Bomb Group in Libya, North Africa briefs his Army Air Force aircraft crews for the first Allied bombing mission against the Nazi German ME-109 (Messerschmitt Bf 109) aircraft manufacturing plant south of Vienna at Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, in World War 2. The map that Colonel Compton is using shows the air routes to and from the target. The mission will commence early the next day, on 13 August 1943. An unrelated scene shows U.S. Army and Army Air Force men conversing with an Australian soldier in a summer uniform.
U.S. Philippine Department Air Force personnel assembling new Seversky P-35A pursuit planes at Nichols Field in the Philippines prior to World War II in the Pacific. These have Swedish roundel markings with 3 yellow crowns on a blue circle background, identifying them as J 9 aircraft for the Swedish Air Force. They were initially sold to Sweden as Republic EP-106 aircraft and redesignated as P-35A by the U.S. Army Air Corps. Because of imbargoes in place due to World War 2, in Europe, these aircraft were diverted to the U.S. Army. Mechanics push a Seversky P-35A (J 9) fuselage on the tarmac outside a hangar. Mechanics work on P-35 engine in the hangar. A sign reads 'Headquarters 17th Pursuit Squadron' at a tent bivouac area. Airmen talk outside a tent. Views from a car driving through nearby residential neighborhood of Ramaville. Two men in white suits with a woman on porch of a house Several P-35A airplanes flying low over the area. Airmen loading a car with baggage.
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