Parachute training in the German army during World War II. Junkers Ju-52 airplanes parked on an airfield. Soldiers stand near the planes. A soldier salutes an officer. Paratroops board the aircraft. The Ju 52 airplanes take off from the airfield. The planes in flight. They fly in formation overhead. The soldiers jump out of the planes with parachutes. Close up views of them jumping from open door of aircraft, and aerial views of German paratroopers jumping. Aerial view of the soldiers descending. They land and quickly take off their parachute gear. They race to a gear parachute and open it to get rifles.
Last days of air war in Germany near end of World War 2. U.S. Airmen holding film slate, on dirt airfield, with P-47 parked behind. Slate identifies location as A-82 (Verdun Airfield, France). Gun camera footage from P-47 flown by pilot named Hunter, of the 9th Air Force, 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 377th Fighter Squadron. Footage shows strafing of German targets along lines of communication.
Amelia Earhart Putnam at an airfield in the United States. She stands in front of her Lockheed Vega aircraft. Amelia Earhart speaks with men and women at the airfield. Photographers take pictures.
First scene shows a German sentry walking past Heinkel He-111 bombers parked on an airfield. German soldiers stripped to their waists leave their tents on sandy soil and carry bombs over their shoulders. Other soldiers grapple with a heavy wooden box of ammunition. Camera pans over a line of parked Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bombers. Closeup of bomb mounted under a Ju-87. German airmen look over maps before departing on a bombing mission. Line of parked He-111 bombers in background. German airmen don flying gear and proceed to their aircraft. They enter through hatch in botton of the fuselage. Ground crewmen crank an engine on a bomber to start it. It then taxis out for takeoff. Several Stuka dive bombers take off in a loose formation. View from beneath as an He-111 bomber flies over the camera position. More Stuka dive bomber aircraft flying in formation above the airfield. Formation of He-111 bombers in formation overhead. View of pilot inside a bomber as it flies over a river. Large formation of bombers overhead. View from cockpit of aircraft engine and propeller during flight. View of bombardier inside a bomber, looking through his bomb sight. Downward view through his canopy. View through window in one bomber of another beside it in formation. Downward view from bottom canopy of land below a bomber. Some bombers in flight in mist. Smoke rising from bomb strike. More He-111s in flight. More smoke rising from bombings. Smoke beginning to obscure everything during attack and invasion of Poland.
Allied leaders meet at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force C-54 Skymaster aircraft lands and taxis at an airfield. British Field Marshal Harold L. Alexander and a British Admiral. Another C-54 Skymaster aircraft lands at the airfield. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and Harry Hopkins get off the aircraft. Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyachselav Molotov greets them.
Allied leaders meet at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyachselav Molotov and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden pose at an airfield. Stettinius, Soviet Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Gromyko and Harry Hopkins talk and smile. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman, Harry Hopkins and Stettinius at the airfield. U.S. Army General George C. Marshal with Harriman, Molotov and others outside a tent. U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King greets Russian officers.
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