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DOGFIGHTS WWII

220298 22:16:42 - 22:19:00 1944 b/w Sd Belgium - WWII
Winter - US troops walking down roads - Military vehicles. Army burn US supply dumps as pulling back. Firing artillery from forest dugouts. Commentary talks of valiant American units surrounded and cut off. Dusk or fog - shots Anti Aircraft fire - Ack Ack guns. Soldiers firing rifles - commentary talks of “cooks, bakers and quatermaster units fighting against Nazis”. Ground to air shots US and Nazi planes in dogfight. Tanks and artillery firing. Two soldiers in dugout drink coffee - snow covered fields and trees. Soldiers walking through snowy forest. Incomplete
Battle of Bulge

220406 07:10:44 - 07:20:17 1940s Col Sd Advance Base Pt. 2 of 3

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07:16:42 Sign Hard Times Lumber Co - Tropical Woods our Speciality. Dozer pulls felled tree out of wood to sawmill. Laying prefabricated metal runway on airfield. Group of pilots comparing stories. Repairs to airplanes. Salvage dump of planes beyond repair for spare parts. Base buildings - bomb dump - bombs on bomb trolley - bomb train to plane. Loading bombs up into planes. Pilots scramble & take off from other planes alongside. Dogfight. AVs base - unloading of crates / supplies in piles.
(GOOD COLOR FOOTAGE)
WWII Pacific Fighting; Seabees;

220411 01:50:27 - 02:00:44 194? b/w Sd For Distinguished Service
Title: This film is restricted to the workers of America who are responsible for the production of aviation gasoline so vital to victory.
INCLUDING
01:54:21 PBY over large convoy. PBY picking up men from life raft. C-47 over atlantic in formation. Planes dropping depth charges. CU pilot & navigator. Machine gunner firing, CU. View of strafing submarine.
01:56:07 Captured German film of dogfight. Hitting American planes. Stuka taking off. German gun camera of strafing airfield. Stukas diving on railyards.
01:57:30 Japanese ship bombed by US plane. CU of controls. Bomb-bay doors opening & bombs dropping. Explosions around ship. Pilot looking around, bombs dropping. Ship burning. POV strafing looking out plexiglass nose. CU wing guns firing. CU riveter. Construction of large refinery for 100 octne. Rigging steel, welding pipes. Filling barrel marked 100 Octane. Chemist & laboratory. Railroad tanker cars. Loading drums on shipboard & filling tankers at dock. Ships of tankers in convoy. GIs rolling barrels in mud, out of landing craft. Planes flying over. Refinery. US flag. The End. “Think what it means at the other end.

220412 02:30:45 - 02:41:03 1943 b/w Sd AAF Report Pt. 4 of 4
Diagram - shows position of various US Air Forces & areas of operation.

INCLUDING
02:31:41 Montage of Japanese troops & aircraft in 1930s. POV from plane strafing.
02:32:13 Flying Tigers, Claire Chennault, pilots into planes, take offs, flyovers, pilot salutes. Strafing Japanese planes - dogfight - downed Japanese plane. Tigers back on airfield, CU pilot R.T. Smith in cockpit w/ hits on side.
02:33:54

220447 15:05:46 - 15:15:59 1940 - 1945 B/W Sd Record of Naval operations
Capsized Chinese cruiser in Yangtze River. Gun mount removed by crane. Labourers, salvage operations. Shackle and running rig used in salvage operations
15:10:05 Animated map Japanese Imperial Crest on prow of Destroyer. Aircraft overhead. Japanese naval officers in tropical clothing hold conference on board ship. Japanese motorboat leaving ship. Mines exploding Sea planes fly over. Hands push down plunger to explode underwater mine ? Japanese destroyer sailing up river - seaplanes over . 5” guns fired from ship. Two Japanese officers look through binoculars, big guns fires. Dogfight Japanese and Chinese planes. Ack Ack Guns. Destroyer towards camera

220449 17:00:03 - 17:10:25 1942 Col Sd At The Front in North Africa with the US Army

INCLUDING
17:06:25 Nazi planes bomb and strafe the harbour and the town. Shots civilians running for cover during air raid. Dogfight - flak. Shipboard Ack Ack gun firing at aircraft.
17:08:44 P-38s and Spitfires battle German planes. Spitfire takes off from allied airfield near Bone. P-38s over. Dogfight between allied aircraft and German Messerschmidts and Junkers. German Mess. in flames on ground.

220475 15:14:46 - 15:17:30 1944 B/W SD Film Flashes Of The War
re war in Europe
Port of Antwerp Open
INCLUDING
15:15:34 Air Fighter Action
Air strafing of German planes on ground inside Germany. Dogfight w/ German jet-propelled fighter. Nazi plane hit and exploding; pilot ejected. Other plane explosion and pilot ejected.
15:16:07

220478 21:57:56 - 22:00:59 1944 B/W SD Main title: Fox Movietone
Title: US Navy Force Attacks Truk
21:58:26 Fighter bombers take off from carrier. Dogfight w/ Japanese planes. Japanese plane explodes mid-air. Aerial view of Truk & Japanese oil tank storage, airfield and tanker ships strafed. Destroyer strafed. Japanese plane hit, plunges & explodes in water. Tracers. Task force attacked w/ plane exploding. Smoke column over water. GOOD.
22:00:05 Title: Attacking Saipan in the Marianas.
Planes off aircraft carrier & attack Japanese airfield w/ planes on ground hit & burning. Japanese ships blasted. Damaged planes land on carrier. Wounded pilot taken out of plane on stretcher after hitting superstructure of carrier.
WWII Navy Air Force; 1944; Fighting; Pacific Battles; Naval;

220660 06:20:12 - 06:28:39 1944 B/W SIL Invasion - D-Day Landings (INV 37)
INCLUDING

Ships at sea - Eisenhower on board ship.
06:20:27 Montgomery boards ship. USAF in flight over Europe, gun camera, dogfight, German plane explodes, strafing railway line and German aircraft on ground.
06:21:10

220668 19:40:34 - 19:49:32 1943 B/W SD Cairo and Tehran
On screen credit advises that the commentary on this film is an excerpt from the President’s broadcast to the armed forces Christmas 1943.

INCLUDING
19:45:49 Allied armies in Italy. Brief dogfight. General Eisenhower with Clark being driven in jeep across bridge. Bomb damaged buildings in Italy. Ike with Allied officers. Gen. Spaatz given decoration. Planes dropping bombs over Germany
19:46:52

220748 10:53:50 - 10:54:58 1943 B/W SD US Planes Down Nazis in Battle over Germany
Planes of 8th USAF - Thunderbolt fighters provide escort to bombers. Camera gun footage of dogfight. German fighter going down. Explodes.

220751 14:30:57 - 14:41:52 1939 - 1944 B/W SD The French Campaign 1944
INCLUDING
14:37:33 Map showing German fortifications - gun emplacements - tank traps etc. Rommel inspects Atlantic wall.
14:38:21 Allied planes in formation. RAF aircraft in flight over sea - interior cockpit. Dogfight - German fighter shot down. Allied planes drop bombs over France?
14:39:15 England - Stockpiles of equipment for D-Day.
14:39:36

220786 01:25:12 - 01:37:01 1944 B/W SD Die Deutsche Wochenschau
Germans in Italy Prepare for Allied Drive.

INCLUDING:
01:32:18 Destroyed military equipment and tanks on battlefield at Nettuno. German medic treats wounded American. Large group of dejected looking POWs. Vapour trails of dogfight. German artillery loaded. Firing at allied planes.
01:33:43

220793 12:28:18 - 12:37:44 1940 - 1942 b/w Sd Churchill’s Island - Reel 1
On screen credit re Academy Award winner for 1942

INCLUDING:
12:31:51 Battle of Britain - Sept. 1940 - German aircraft taking off and in flight formation. England - air-raid warning - Anti-aircraft gun - police putting on steel hats - shopkeeper closes shop - woman ambulance driver runs to ambulance. Fire engine out of station. ARP wardens in gas masks. People into shelters. Map / operations control room. German planes over coastline. Barrage balloon in flames. Ack-Ack guns fired. German planes dropping bombs. Shots pilots smiling. Explosion and building on fire. RAF Spitfires engage Germans in dogfight. Plane crashes into sea. Various shots wrecked German planes. Scenes of Blitz - firefighting - British sailor to camera “ I’ve pulled more Gerrys out the drink than I ever knew existed ... “ Plane partly submerged in sea.
12:36:48

220832 21:40:01 - 21:50:46 1943 - 1944 COL SD Fighting Lady, The - Reel 2 - Part 2
Military Documentary: highlights functions and duties of The Fighting Lady, pseudonym for the USS Yorktown, and crew activities. Maps illustrate movement of Pacific Fleet and its engagement with the Japanese in 1943 and 1944.
Eve of battle - Men washing and showering. Sailors attend church services - waiting, sleeping on bunk beds - cooks prepare bacon and eggs breakfast - eating breakfast. Prior to US assault, Japanese torpedo planes attack US squadron. US planes take off for Marianas and Guam Islands. US takes Tinian Island, Marianas Islands. Map Marianas. Dogfights and bombing Japanese bases on Tinian. Battleships surround beaches incl. USS Colorado, USS Tennessee & USS Pennsylvania. Bombers return - signalman - burning plane - plane with burning gas pouring out. Intelligence officers talk with pilots. Engine room. USS Yorktown moves ahead. Dog with life jacket. Japanese planes attack USS Yorktown.
incl. A-24 Dauntlesses, TBF Avengers, Hellcats and A-25, SB2C and SBF Helldivers

220834 00:30:18 - 00:40:30 1943 - 1944 COL SD Fighting Lady, The - Reel 1 - Part 3

INCLUDING:
00:34:19 Early 1944, capture of Kwajalein - US planes strafing Japanese ships and bases. Aerials of US ships reaching Kwajalein for landing.
Map shows truk. Pilots take off for mission on Truk, Caroline Islands. Officers give instructions on phone. Dogfights and strafing Japanese base and ships on Truk.

220904 04:31:56 - 04:35:31 1944 B/W SD [Gun Camera Footage]
8th AAF gun camera films - strafings planes on ground and railway trains & dogfights.

221068 15:39:11 - 15:45:30 1942 - 1945 B/W SD Conquest by Air [Reel 2 of 3]

INCLUDING:
15:42:26 Gun-camera footage records dogfights and the strafing of grounded German planes. Good air to air shots of B-24 bombers in formation.
15:43:39

221134 14:24:18 - 14:37:20 1942 B/W SD Die Deutsche Wochenschau [#614 Jun42]
Part 2 cont’d. Battle of Kharkov - Ukraine: infantry soldiers on foot advancing.

INCLUDING:
14:25:53 Aerial of Junkers Ju-87 Stukas in flight toward camera; views of dogfighting; ground shots bombs exploding close by. Troops enter destroyed village, twisted railway tracks, CU burning buildings & destroyed railroad cars.
14:27:17

221135 17:04:51 - 17:13:23 1940; 1943 B/W SD Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (1943) [Reel 4 of 6]

INCLUDING:
17:07:33 Goering at planning meeting. 15Sep40 Luftwaffe aircraft loaded w/ bombs take off. German bombers & Messerschmidt fighters fly in formation. England spotters radio thru to control room. Plotting table. RAF Spitfires take off; dogfights, gun camera footage. Spotters. Barrage balloon in flames. Bombing over London. Dialogue scene men on bomb site, one goes to get tin hats. “Blimey I thought they’d got ‘ya”. “Nah, I ‘ad me fingers crossed”. Teletype machine prints out losses. Man reads out message from Air Ministry to control room - “The biggest bag yet”.
07:12:01

221135 16:47:28 - 16:56:25 1940; 1943 B/W SD Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain [Reel 2 of 6]
INCLUDING:
16:49:46 Air raid siren & reaction shots, children & babies w/ gas masks. 08Aug40 Two soldiers on spotting duty at coast, anti-aircraft guns, German aircraft attack channel convoys; bombs exploding. RAF scramble, bell ringing, fighter planes take off from grass field. Dogfights over channel, gun camera footage. German plane crashes into sea. Wrecked Nazi planes.
16:53:43 Animated graphic re Battle of Britain. German planes bomb British coastline. Bus with Rye on front pulls up to side of country road as German plane comes in to attack, “It’s Jerry - take cover!”. Bullet holes in bus. Spitfire on tail of Luftwaffe fighter. More wrecked German aircraft. German planes bomb Plymouth. Cargo ships in docks unload supplies. Spitfires in flight.
16:55:16

221135 16:56:25 - 17:04:14 1940; 1943 B/W SD Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain [Reel 3 of 6]
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16:58:37 England coastal defences: anti-aircraft (Ack-Ack) guns, listening posts along coast. Operations room plotting map. British fighter planes take off. Watchers from positions on coast. Animated map showing Dover area (Hells Corner) under attack. German planes get through flak & bomb airfields. Air-raid warden sounds alarm from factory roof. Factory workers run out of factory & man fire engines. Men in factory working in tin hats as German planes drop bombs. Spitfires in flight. Dogfight. RAF flight return & reports downing of German planes, damage to Spitfires. Animated graphic showing losses.
17:02:01

221216 15:21:34 - 15:31:58 1938 - 1939 B/W Sd The Nazis Strike R3 of 4
Why We Fight Series #2

INCLUDING:
15:27:36 German armies advance to Polish border. Polish infantry & horse cavalry. Diagram shows military power. Bomb loaded onto plane. Brief montage earlier wars. Hitler making animated speech. Big guns firing. German tanks advance. 01Sep39 Invasion of Poland. Luftwaffe bombing. Aerials of Poland’s airfields - strafing aircraft on ground. Dogfights w/ plane crashes in flames. Good AVs from planes as bombs dropped, explosions - railroad bombed. Refugee children hide in trees. Explosion. Polish army - troops on horseback. German army continue advance. Amphibious - new Storm Boat used to cross Vistula.

221237 09:10:01 - 09:25:10 1942 B/W SD Die Deutsche Wochenschau [No.601 Mar42 Reel 2]
INCLUDING:
09:15:19 Map of Eastern Front around Kursk, Orel & Bjelgorod, Russia. German anti-aircraft tanks in field - aerial dogfight above; Allied planes shot down, pan across dozens of tanks at dusk.
09:16:56 Waffen-SS troops & officers; watch tank advance across field w/ motorcycle troops. Tank battle as dogfight continues above - travelling shot from tank moving down road, soldiers sitting on front w/ puppy.

09:20:52

221367 06:08:42 - 06:19:12 1944 B/W SIL [XIX Tactical Air Command, Gen. Quesada 21-27Jun44] R2 of ?

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P-47 fighter planes taxi past w/ dust kicked up, metal matting visible. Taking off
06:11:05 Gun camera following & shooting twin-engine plane; coming up from below w/ fire beginning & debris falling off.
06:11:51 Gun camera of single engine fighter hit & bursts of flame & smoke. Going down, GOOD.
06:12:16 Other single engine planes from behind & trailing smoke, going down.
06:13:08 Strafing airfield w/ planes on ground. Hitting twin-engine plane trying to taxi. More strafing airfield & hitting. Dogfight after another single engine plane low over field, burst into flames. Another bursts into flames. GOOD.
06:14:10

221384 11:19:39 - 11:24:38 194? B/W SD [WWII Die Wochenschau: Bombing London; Anti-Aircraft Batteries; Wrecked Italian City; Tanks]

INCLUDING:
Toy ferris wheel & toy animals (pad). Men working on plane on airfield, gun turrets. Moving large bomb to plane & raising onto wing, motors start. Officers over map showing London & pilots in large briefing. GOOD CUs of pilots & crews setting watches. Pilot receiving flowers for 100th mission over England.
11:21:20 Officers at wall map, pilots talking, light cigarettes & gesturing how they’d attacked. Ends.
11:22:17 Anti-aircraft gun crew spots American plane, turns & fires. Large number of anit-aircraft guns; bombs dropping nearby. Bombers overhead as crews man guns; large explosions & clouds of smoke nearby. Soldiers looking up at planes. Explosions in slow motion; german fighters up & contrails in sky from dogfighting. Planes fall in flames, more explosions on ground in slow motion.
11:23:35 CUs anti-aircraft guns cranked, sighted, mechanisms, firing. Contrails filling sky, fighters swooping low. Bomber down in flames. Wreckage on ground burning.
11:23:58

221393 07:20:45 - 07:31:34 1940s B/W Sd Battle of Kursk (Related) R03 of 18

INCLUDING:
07:29:08 Russian machine gunners into position. Germans run thru field, wild flowers. Explosions.
07:29:43 Planes overhead, then POV bombing and flying; bombs explode, ground pov. Fighter planes &
dogfight, strafing. Russian artillery firing from sunflower field. German tanks burning. Soldiers throwing grenades & tanks hit.
07:31:00

221393 08:15:24 - 08:24:51 1943 (?) B/W Sd/Sil Battle of Kursk (Related) R08 of 18

INCLUDING:
08:21:15 Firing seen from tank viewing slit. Artillery etc firing from woods. POV across countryside. Burning village. Destroyed USSR tanks & dead. Tank destroyed by Stuka. Prisoners.
08:22:40 Planes against sky; aerials. Bombing, explosions seen, dogfight, firing plane’s machine gun. Inside cockpit, attacking Russian plane & hitting. Pilot turns to camera. GOOD.

221414 02:00:01 - 02:05:22 194? B/W SIL [WWII - Japanese Planes Shot Down; POV Submarine In Rough Seas]
Pilot in cockpit; vapor trails in sky. Carrier deck & flag, planes low over, ack ack clouds in sky. Plane into ocean.
02:00:48 Deck level shot, much smoke & falling debrie, plan into water. Aircraft carrier. Plane shot out of air & into ocean.
02:01:18 Gun camera w/ plane in sight. Gun camer firing down on plane towards water.
02:02:02 Gun camera over ??.
02:02:25 Man sighting from ship gun pit; man looking w/ binoculars. Men on mast & conning tower of submarine, pointing. Man at gun (?) Everyone in raingear. View wake aft deck thru waves Nose thru waves Rough water. GOOD.
WWII Pacific Battles; Fighter Planes Dogfighting;

221545 10:17:57 - 10:25:13 194? B/W SD [WWII - German Newsreel Excerpts, 1942]

INCLUDING:
CU man calls alarm; Nazi anti-aircraft crews run out to artillery on French coast, load & fire. FW-190 fighter airplanes taking off from grassy field. Aerial of plane in flight. POV from cockpit, dogfight & hitting British plane. Smoke from falling bomber, gun crew on ground cheering. contrails overhead. Dog fighting. British fighter crashing. Captured pilot & plane wreckage.
10:19:39 Three bombers over low. Fighter pilot into plane & taking off. Fighter seen hit by artillery fire. Smoke from crash site. Fighter over, pilot in cockpit. Dogfight & German hitting fighter. Crashing.
10:20:49 Japanese Title. Japanese take large bomb to dive bomber, planes take off & formation to Hong Kong. Aerial shot, bombs dropping. View of ships in harbor. Brief shot of freighter (?) in invasive turn.
10:21:38

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