Strafing of a Japanese air strip during World War II. Smoke seen rising up in the sky. U.S. gun camera footage.
View from the air as U.S. aircraft bomb and strafe Japanese planes lined up at an airfield in Okinawa during World War 2.
U.S. 8th Army Air Force gun camera film showing actual aerial combat scenes during World War 2, in Europe. A Messerschmitt Bf 109 is seen being attacked from the rear. It is struck, loses control and begins to burn. Next, a German Focke Wulf 190 (FW-190) with a 300 liter drop tank still attached, is attacked. The drop tank is hit and explodes in flames. It separates from the aircraft, which rolls and dives. Another FW-190 with its landing gear extended, is attacked and explodes in flames. An Fw-190, has its wing blown off and falls out of the sky. A U.S. fighter plane strafing a German E-boat (German: Schnellboot, or fast boat). The plane strafes from the boat's port side and then circles to attack head-on as the boat attempts evasive maneuvers. An FW-190 is attacked, head-on as it is also firing at the U.S. fighter. It is struck and erupts in flame and smoke. A pair of Siebel Fh 104 Hallore transport planes are attacked, followed by an attack on a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor transport, as it takes off from an airfield. Its left wing is set afire. Next, a U.S. fighter engages and destroys a German Dornier Do-17 bomber, in a head-on attack, as it is climbing out. That same U.S. fighter plane attacks and destroys an FW-190. In final scene, a Messerschmitt bf 109 is shot to pieces in another head-on attack.
Animated map shows areas of targeting, in Rome environs, by U.S. warplanes during Italian campaign in World War 2. Gun camera footage from a U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 aircraft captures strafing from altitude of feet, of loaded Italian transport vehicles on Italian highway 6, connecting Rome and Cassino. Another map highlights a bridge at Civita Castellana. Gun camera shows it being strafed from only 300 ft. altitude, and attacked with 500 pound bombs. Similar attack is highlighted at a road near Frosinone, Southeast of Rome, where A-36 fighter bombers strafe motor transports and bomb the road. Similar footage is shown for targets being attacked at: Monte Si Savino; Sezze; Terracina; Castro de Volsci. Views from one A-36 camera when pilot flies low in a valley looking for targets of opportunity. He strafes vehicles on a road and pulls up sharply to avoid a mountain and then continues attack on the other side.
A film titled 'Fighter kills,' containing a number of selected scenes of aerial combat strafing of ground targets by U.S. fighter aircraft of the 8th Air Force during World War 2. U.S. aircraft shoot down German aircraft including FW-190s and Me-109s. In one scene, the pursuing American airplane passes extremely close to the German pilot's parachute, after he bails out.
28th Escadrille fliers of French Air Service examine a Salmson 2 biplane during World War I. Clothes seen hanging on a wire in the background. The aircraft has a painted picture of a running elephant on it. Captain Paul Daum of the 28th Escadrille inspects the rear, twin, ring-mounted Lewis Guns, moves them around, and adjusts them. The fliers including Captain Paul Daum stand in front of the plane.
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