8th Army Air Force footage 'Fighter Kills over Europe'. Enemy fighter planes ME-109 on ground and in air destroyed by United States fighter planes during World War 2. Strafing of airfields, railroad trains and airfield towers by United States fighter planes.
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.
Slate titled "Fighter kills on D-Day". Shows strafing of German-operated ammunition trucks on highways of France by United States fighter planes during the D-Day invasion of France in World War II. Gun camera footage from pilot point of view shows U.S. Army Air Force fighter planes in very low approaches as they strafe railroad trains, trucks, marshaling yards, and buildings. Some strafing attacks result in explosion of targets. Smoke rises up in the sky.
A film titled 'Fighter kills'. Gun camera footage shows strafing attack against German airfield with destruction of a Messerschmitt Me-210 on the ground. Another sequence shows three Me-109s in different attacks, being struck and exploding in flight. Strafing attacks are seen against a number of barges along inland waterways and against several steam locomotives on railroads, in which their steam boiler explode. More air attacks show a twin engine German plane destroyed on the ground, and FW-190 airplanes destroyed in the air and on the ground. More strafing attacks on warehouses; waterways; and the shoot down of an Me-109 which explodes and crashes into the ground. The remainder of the clip shows numerous strafing attacks against German airfields and aircraft on the ground.
A film titled 'Fighter kills'. Strafing of trains, railroad yards, tug and barges in canals by United States Army Air Forces fighter planes during World War 2. Truck convoys, freight cars and enemy aircraft are attacked.
Gun camera footage from U.S. Army Air Forces fighter planes shows numerous German aircraft being shot down during World War 2. Also shown are German aircraft being destroyed on the ground and all manner of conveyances being destroyed by strafing along lines of communication.
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