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WWII: B-29 Factory Workers (:54)

Workers drill, hammer, and sweat in a B-29 factory.

WWII: B-29 Bomber Production (1:10)

In this factory, aluminum is shaped into airplane parts.

WWII: Building B-29 Bombers (:31)

In Seattle, factory workers build new B-29 bombers.

WWII: Manufacturing Bombers (:32)

In this excerpt of a U.S. War Department film, men and women work to manufacture parts for bomber planes.

WWII: Rescue From Flames (:46)

Rescue squads save a man out of the wreckage of a crashed plane, and then watch as the plane is consumed by flames.

WWII: Japan Bombing Aftermath ()

After the smoke has cleared, a low-flying plane's eye view of Tokyo reveals a grid of complete rubble.

WWII: Japan Bombed and Aftermath (1:26)

From 12,000 feet above, B-29 bombers drop 4,000 tons of bombs over Japan.

WWII: Soviet Newsreel (:17)

In this Soviet newsreel, a plane plunges to the ground and explodes.

WWII: Ground Crews Work On B-29s (:35)

Ground crews work on B-29 bombers, fixing propellers, prepping bombs, and hand-starting the propeller.

WWII: Kamikaze Attack (:56)

As kamikaze planes streak through the air.

WWII: Kamikaze Mission Accomplished (:48)

American soldiers look on as a Japanese kamikaze plane hits a distant war ship.

WWII: Plane's-Eye View ()

War as seen from the vantage point of a war plane, flying over enemy aircraft carriers and land, spewing artillery.

WWII: The Modern Bomber (:39)

Montage of the modern bomber.

WWII: Aftermath At Sea (:25)

The camera tilts from top to bottom, following a plane caught aflame, as it nosedives straight into the ocean.

WWII: Planes And Tanks (:11)

Below, tanks push forward over flat ground while planes fly in formation above.

WWII: The U.S. Prepares Itself For War (:23)

This montages jumps from footage of warships, war planes, gun factories, shells, and tank factories.

D-Day: Paratrooper Preparations (:49)

Paratroopers load their bodies with multiple packs of heavy equipment, pulling each strap until perfectly fit.

Marching Soldiers (:12)

From behind a tangle of barbed wire, the camera films soldiers from afar as they walk towards their war planes.

War in the Skies (:17)

This clip moves quickly from an exterior shot of warplanes to the inside, where a soldier shoots continuously with a machine gun. ...

Bombing: A Plane's-Eye View (:28)

Allied bombers fly above German-occupied lands. Bombs drop easily from underbelly of the planes.

WWII: Air Bombing (1:06)

Japanese bombers fly towards their destination.

WWII: Nagasaki And Hiroshima (:39)

Giant mushroom clouds rocket from the ground to the sky.


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