Reenactment of WWI aerial combat action from a 1927 film with Richard Arlen. Aircraft engage in dogfight. Smoking German plane dives and crashes. In another scene, American airplane chases German plane causing it to crash land at German Aerodrome. View through tail as American airplane pulls up and Germans rush to aid of their pilot. Pilot of American airplane (movie actor, Richard Arlen) laughs as he looks over his shoulder from the cockpit of his airplane. Wounded German pilot falls out of his cockpit.
Two wounded soldiers walk out of a building. An officer gives wounded soldiers cigarettes to smoke. Officer lights the cigarette. A soldier with a fully bandaged face and hands smokes a cigarette and talks to the U.S. officer. U.S. officer removes the dressing from another wounded soldier's face. He checks the wounds on the soldier's face.
Slate reads: "VIII Fighter Command Combat Film No. 172 Lt. Kress 360 Sqdn. 24 Jan. 1944 356 F.G. Attacking F.W.190" However, the gun camera footage shows a German Messerschmitt, Me-109, with its landing gear extended, being fired upon. The ME-109 explodes.
A film titled 'Fighter kills on D-Day'. 8th Air Force fighter aircraft interdict lines of communication in support of the Allied invasion of France on D-day, June 6, 1944. Views from their gun cameras as they strafe railroad lines, marshaling yards, and highways, destroying trains, trucks, and German military vehicles. Several large explosions result when munitions and the like are struck.
German people seen on streets. United States Army soldiers mingle with German people. People read some posters on a pillar. A poster reads 'Bamberger Theater'. People seen talking to a U.S. Army soldier in a corridor. Crowd watches, as a U.S. Army crane lifts Church bells to be hanged in a Church, in Manheim, Germany.. U.S. Army Soldiers help by sandbagging and relief efforts during river flooding in Bavaria. U.S. Army engineers rebuild a road to an orphanage that was wiped out by flooding. Nuns and children thank Americans.
Sign on German hospital building reads 'Kreiskrankenhaus' (Town Hospital). United States Army blood donors in the German hospital. Nurse in hospital examining room greets soldiers. American soldiers play with homeless or orphaned German children. A German Porsche car in a car race with obstacles, attended by Americans and Germans. A Center for German youth in Stuttgart sponsored by U.S. Seventh Army and VII Corps. Army Soldiers supervise German youths in handicrafts; table tennis (ping pong); baseball, with players wearing "Phillies" uniforms; miniature car racing (Soap Box Derby). American Major General visits Boy Scout encampment. (General wears 11th Airborne patch on his uniform.) Scout leader wears Tyrolean hat. Boy Scouts cooking and eating food. Rural Town of Kirnbach, Germany, invites U.S. Army soldiers as guests. U.S. Army soldiers including an African American soldier exiting a bus on arrival in town. Musicians in band playing at a gathering. Views of groups of German citizens, including children and elderly, men and women, in the town. The U.S. soldiers share in various local cultural activities and dine with local people. View of plate of food and glasses of beer. View of poster promotion Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra concert in February 1949 under the baton of Paul Hindemith. U.S. Army musicians join in rehearsal of an orchestra (possibly the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra?), with an unidentified conductor (possibly a young Herbert von Karajan?), playing instruments and rehearsing a Mozart composition.
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