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The Battle of Britain. German bombers strike London during the Blitz in World War II

View from cockpit of German Dornier Do 17 bomber, of many parked on an airfield in German occupied France during World War 2. Camera pans across the cockpit. View shifts view from under the wing of one plane as an aircrew member heads toward it. Next, the bomber with engines running taxis out for takeoff. Scene changes to show head-on approach of a Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft taking off toward the camera. Then a formation of He 111 aircraft is seen in flight. Extreme closeup of He 111 in flight, with crew member visible in the aircraft. View from cockpit of a Dornier Do 17 bomber in formation flight. (Shaky camera makes them look like bi-wing aircraft in some brief scenes.) Camera pans across cockpit showing the Do 17 in formation above. View from instrument panel, of pilot and copilot at controls in a bomber. More views of the bombers in formation. The bombers arrive over London in the dark and are subject to British anti-aircraft fire with shells bursting all around them. Glimpse inside the cabin of one bomber. More flak explosions all around. The German planes release their bombs, which are seen exploding on London, England, below.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675054013
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft fly in formation at end of World War II in Europe

The end of World War 2 in Europe. United States fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolts of the 362nd Fighter Group in Germany. Group commander's P-47 (multi-colored checkered cowl represents all three assigned squadrons) taxiing on an airfield. The planes take off. Group commander leads a formation of twelve P-47s from the 379th Fighter Squadron (yellow cowlings). They maneuver in flights of four each.

Date: 1945, June
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054216
Allied occupation of Germany, WWII. Jeeps, tanks and trucks advance along a country road near Nuremberg, Germany.

Allied occupation of Germany at the close of World War Two. Allied military vehicles pass through a village near Nuremberg, Germany. The military vehicles move along a road. Pedestrians walk along the road. Jeeps, tanks and trucks advance along the country road. Vehicles pass along a German road block. United States aviation engineers are loaded on the vehicles to reconnoiter new airfields in Germany. They pass a destroyed German Hetzer Jagdpanzer 38 light tank destroyer (Sd.Kfz. 138/2). Street scenes in the village. United States P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft in flight overhead.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054232
Post-war film showing damage to Yokahoma, Japan, from bombing by U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II

Idled ships and cranes at damaged port of Yokahoma, Japan, seen right after end of hostilities in World War 2. Port facilities reduced to steel skeletons from bombing by USAAF in the war. Camera pans over the city from a high point of land. Ocean in background. Wide swaths of completely burned-out areas in the foreground. There is hardly any notable human activity. Scene changes completely to aerial view from aircraft flying overhead. Brief glimpse of a U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber flying below, close to the ground (probably preparing to land). Aerial view of airfield in distance.

Date: 1945, September 7
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054461
Parked enemy aircraft strafed by 8th Air Force fighter aircraft in the European Theater.

Fighter Operations of United States 8th Air Force Fighter Command in the European Theater during World War II. Colonel Meyer of 487th Squadron, 352th Fighter Group in flight in a fighter aircraft. An aerial view of planes parked on an airfield. The United States fighter aircraft strafes parked enemy aircraft. Smoke rises up in the sky due to explosions.

Date: 1944, August 25
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054512
Gun camera footage from U.S. P-47 strafing German ground targets including aircraft and armor

Operations of United States 8th Air Force Fighter Command in the European Theater during World War 2. Gun camera footage from P-47 flown by Captain Ben E. Cathers of the 61st Squadron, 56th Fighter Group. Ground targets being strafed include parked German bomber aircraft on airfields and German armor in a field.

Date: 1944, September 5
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054515