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| Public Domain Films And Royalty Free Stock Footage |
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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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| NTSC Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| PAL Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| keywords: air power, army air force, world war II, wwII, b-26, b-17, p-38, fw-190, p-47, p-51, b-24 |
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Synopsis: The impact of air power starting in World War I to coming into its own in World War II with bomber armadas and fighter sweeps... (read more) |
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Information: 1945 20 min BW |
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Flashback to World War 1. French troops wearing gas masks in trench firing at enemy and then storming German trenches. Length of WW1 flashback clip is 32-seconds.
Shows destruction of German cities and facilities caused by Allied bombers. B-26's, B-17's, and P-38's in the air and bombs falling on Rouen, France, on Aug. 17, 1942; unescorted B-17's over Schweinfurt, Germany, under heavy attack by FW-190's; Shows Allied bombers being shot down. Shows the unloading of dead and wounded from B-17's returned from the Schweinfurt raid. Shows German ball bearing plant in production. Shows damaged and destroyed Allied bombers.
P-47's with wing tanks and the long range P-51 fighter capable of escorting the bombers deep into Germany entered the war in late 1943. Allied bombers bombs German aircraft plants. Shows destruction of plant. Focke-Wulf FW 190 on an assembly line in Germany.
B-24's raid Romania's Ploesti oil fields. German oil refineries became primary targets. Shows damage of these oil refineries. gun-camera footage records dogfights and the strafing of grounded German planes.
Aerial view of Normandy Allied invasion fleet. Allied troops land in Normandy. Bombs fall on German tank factories. Shows the ruins of a factory in Bomark. U.S. and British officers confer. Berlin and Bremen are bombed. Shows ruins in Germany. Transportation and communication centers are destroyed. Night scene of an atomic bomb blast with mushroom.
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