Reserve airmen of a Recovery Unit in South Carolina. Airman gets in car and drives. Reserve airmen ready the field for use. Reserve airmen and officers of a Recovery Squadron gives a Readiness test at North Field near Columbia,South Carolina. United States Air Force (USAF) C-123B Provider transport aircraft taxis for landing. Reserve airmen check the aircraft and crew for radiation. Wounded men are evacuated by ambulance. Airman operates a radio. USAF C-124A Globemaster II cargo aircraft with modified radome nose lands at airfield. Emergency vehicles drive onto the runway.
Bomb damage in Wiesbaden, Germany during World War II. Aerial views from a U.S. Army Air Force aircraft making a low pass show bomb damaged military installations and marshaling yards. Aerial views of bomb-damage in a concentration camp. A large town square is seen from the air, with numerous refugees moving about . Bomb-damaged buildings in the town. A U.S. Army L5 Stinson aircraft parked on an airfield.
Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. Camouflaged artillery guns being fired on field. A damaged fortified cave on field. German officers examine aerial intelligence photographs in the field. German Luftwaffe Chief, Hermann Goering discusses strategy and map with staff officers. Interiors showing German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, German Air Force Chief, Hermann Goering with other German officers as they attend a conference. German airmen man their bombers. Soldiers physically carry large bombs to the aircraft. German Stuka dive bombers with bombs mounted underneath. Stuka aircraft take off and fly in formation. View of bombed hangar and damaged aircraft at an airfield. The first casualties are tended and evacuated by a railroad train.
A German officer hands bouquet of flowers to crewman on a Junkers Ju- 52 airplane displaying registration: D-2600 (Hitler's personal aircraft). German Chancellor Adolf Hitler boards the aircraft with German officers. Interior of aircraft displays flowers and other birthday decorations commemorating the birthday or founding anniversary of the Sturmabteilung (SA). German officers and Hitler seated in the airplane. Closeup of Hitler's personal pilot, Johannes 'Hans' Peter Baur, in uniform of Colonel, Schutzstaffel (SS). Hans Baur wears a service cap displaying the Totenkopf (death head) insignia. Views of ground as seen from the airplane in flight. View of passengers in the cabin. Hitler is quietly reading a book. view from cabin window of aircraft's left wing, displaying registration number. As part of the SA birthday celebrations, Hitler and German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Chief Hermann Goring inspect German Air Force aircraft and personnel at an airfield. Hitler greets many of the German officers and airmen. Hitler's airplane is next seen preparing for departure, with engines running, " Lufthansa, " Immelmann II " is painted on its side. It flies a Nazi flag. Military personnel load cargoes into the belly of the aircraft. An officer gives bouquet to another officer aboard the plane. Hitler and Goering complete their inspection of the Air unit. Closeups of Hitler and Goering mingling with the fliers and inspecting Heinkel He-51 bi-wing pursuit airplanes. Scene shifts to destination where Hitler talks to a small girl besides his car. The child holds a small bouquet of flowers for presentation to him. But when Hitler reaches for it, the child changes her mind and holds it back, refusing to give it to the Fuhrer.
A Lend lease U.S. C-47 (military version of Douglas DC-3 aircraft) is seen in sky above a Soviet airfield during World War 2. It lands and taxis past a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber, to a parking place. Marshal of Soviet Union, Georgy Zhukov, is seen beside the aircraft along with other senior Soviet military officers. Next, he leads them, walking across a cobblestone path. A factory building is seen in the background. Change of scene shows inside of a large room, with numerous chairs and tables covered with maps. Senior Soviet officers sit at these tables. Camera pans over the scene. General Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov is seen seated at one of the tables. Other Generals and Colonels are seen as the camera moves its focus. Marshal Zhukov presides over the meeting from a table at the front of the room. He is flanked by two other officers. Camera again pans over the assembled group of high ranking officers.
Animated map displays various paths by Soviet forces attacking in Battle of Berlin and in other parts of Germany, during late phase of World War 2. Closeup of a scale model of Berlin and environs. Soviet officers stand around a table holding the model. Soviet soldiers in the field look at maps depicting their areas of operation. Tank crews check maps for their operations. Aviators consult charts. View from underneath a Soviet aircraft of Ilyushin Il-2 aircraft parked on an airfield. Aerial view, from low overflying airplane, of rough field filled with parked aircraft. Heavy artillery hidden in woods. Personnel carriers and trucks parked in a field. Soldiers cleaning large artillery shells. Camouflaged tanks in readiness. A heavy siege gun opens fire and large explosion lifts huge amounts of earth into the air. Soldiers throw shells to artillery men manning a heavy gun. Many different views of artillery firing at night. Many Katyusha rockets being fired at night. Progress of soviet offensive is indicated on the animated map. More artillery firing.
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