German Stuka dive bombers attack targets in Western Europe during World War 2. Pilot entering cockpit of Junkers Ju 87 aircraft; Stuka aircraft taxi and then take off from an airfield. Aerial views of formation of Stuka aircraft in flight. View of Stuka dive bombers diving toward targets and dropping a series of bombs. Huge explosions. Brief view of German soldiers resting at a road side beside two tanks. More shots of Stuka dive bombers attacking targets, approaching toward camera position, and views of explosions from ground level.
U.S. official film about the capture of Borneo Oil Fields in Asia. Japanese pilots on Indo-China airfield briefed. Officer commands the soldiers. Soldiers in line salute. Fighter planes start engine and take off. Planes in flight. Map shows position of planes in flight. Planes drop bombs on Rangoon, Burma. Aerial view of bomb explosion in field. (World War II period).
U.S. Army Air Force B-24s bombing targets in Japanese-held areas of Indochina, during the Second World War. View of U.S. Army Air Force B-24 from waist gun position of another B-24. View from B-24 (below 10,000 feet) over an airfield. Waist gunner poses, without oxygen mask, at his machine gun (not firing). View from 17,500 feet as B-24s bomb a supply depot in Hanoi. Clouds of smoke rise from numerous bomb explosions. B-24s on mission to bomb Haiphong, Indochina. Aerial view of B-24 named "80 Days," with two dice (a Five and a Three) pictured under its name. Bombs falling from B-24s as they bomb smelting and foundry plants from 17,000 feet over port city of Haiphong. Smoke rising from targets.
Opens shows a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 Stratofortress heavy bomber taxiing on an airfield. Views from the side and from above the taxiing aircraft. AGM-28 Hound Dog missiles seen under the wings. View of underside of wings. A gloved hand raises guards on switches and they are activated. From inside an aircraft, two Hound Dog missiles are seen as they drop from it. Scene shifts to a KC-135 aerial refueling tanker aircraft taking off. Views of a B-52 bomber hooking up to refuel from a KC-135 tanker aircraft. Refueling boom is seen slowly extending to connect with the refueling input of the B-52. View of the boom operator lying down in the tail of the KC-135 tanker, maneuvering the boom. View, from his perspective, of the B-52 and refueling boom as they connect and begin refueling. Aerial views of the the two aircraft hooked together and then disconnecting after refueling is complete. Animated world globe is shown depicting Soviet threat. An Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile is seen launching. Views of B-52 bombers in flight.
Klaxon horns sound alert signals and U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) flight crews, on alert, stop what they are doing and rush from their quarters to jeeps, that take them to their aircraft. They are seen clambering aboard their bomber aircraft. Closeup of a B-47E-30-LM Stratojet bomber, tail number 52-264, taxiing. Closeup of its wheels. The B-47 taking off from a base in the continental United States. In Alaska, a B-52 bomber taxis on a plowed taxiway in a snowy airfield. Local people watch as two B-52 bombers take off from a SAC base in Africa. Formations of B-52 bomber in flight. View of Air Force personnel inside the SAC headquarters Command and Control Center at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. Scene shifts to a B-47 bomber flying directly overhead and an Atlas missile being launched. Glimpse of pilot and copilot inside the cockpit of a SAC bomber in flight. A nuclear bomb dropping from an open bomb bay viewed from inside the aircraft. An atomic explosion during one of the tests conducted by the United States, in the Pacific, from 1946 to 1958.
Hermann Göring, in military uniform, broadcasts announcement of Germany's intent to rearm, in 1935. View of Adolf Hitler, in uniform, reviewing mobilized German troops, assembled in formation at the Lustgarten in Berlin, and on parade in grass field stadium. Scene shifts back to Göring reading text of his broadcast, and then to momentary glimpse of Russian tank in Red Square.(Germany and Russia collaborated on military hardware during interwar period.) An unmarked Russian T26 tank with cylindrical turret, displaying "T-149" on its lower front. A variety of tanks being run through trials, dropping over steep obstacles, moving through rivers, and plunging through obstacles. German gun crew with a 122mm field howitzer. Closeup of soldiers working at the breech area. Troops with rifles engaged in field exercises, taking prone positions and crawling along on the ground. German Navy (Kriegsmarine) sailor signaling with semaphore flags. German soldiers firing machine gun. Wehrmacht eagle and swastika on his helmet. German cavalry on horseback. Hitler youth marching segueing into German army troops marching. German boys jumping segueing into German paratroopers jumping from Junkers Ju-52 transport planes. Likewise, German youth receiving award turns into German soldier receiving Iron Cross medal. Similar transition leading to German Luftwaffe pilot donning helmet in airplane cockpit. A Junkers 87 Stuka dive bomber taking off from a grass field. Formation of 6 Stukas in flight overhead. German Hitler youth cheering. A line of German Heinkel He 50 dive bomber aircraft parked side-by-side with engines running, on an airfield and then in loose formation flying overhead. Low flying German airplanes laying down smoke screens. Heinkel He 60 float planes dropping ordnance in water. View from German Navy scout plane flying low past a German warship. Goering speaking again. Hitler reviewing marching troops. The German light Cruiser Königsberg. A German gunboat. A line of German warships in formation. Hitler casually rendering the Nazi salute from a balcony, as crowd below cheers him. Closeup of Adolf Hitler. Nazi storm troopers marching in nighttime torchlight parade. Hitler on a balcony with others, at night, as crowds below cheer.
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