WWII - 1940s, German Newsreel: Fighter Planes & Anti-Aircraft Defenses

WWII - 1940s, German Newsreel: Fighter Planes & Anti-Aircraft Defenses Small navy boat & patrolling; watching & spotting plane contrails. Fighter planes ready, gun camera loaded pilots into planes including pilot w/ cane limping, closed cockpits & taking off across grassy field. 09:33:34 People into enormous concrete bunker w/ steel plates & steel doors closed & latched (NOTE: possibly Berlin’s Zoo flak tower / Zoo Bunker / Flakturm Tiergarten) . Street w/ stopped electric street cars, trolleys, trams. Man on phone in control center. Hospital patients rolled into bunkers. Contrails. Large room w/ men w/ headsets at rows of tiered desks. Plotters marking locations on table top & wall charts. 09:34:46 Air to air of fighter planes; int. triggering gun camera. Hitting bombers & plane disintegrating. CU pilot moving stick. Plotting on wall chart w/ heavy dramatic shadows. 09:35:58 Parachutes descending; plane wreckage; captured American pilots interviewed (SoF). Graves of Americans inc. George J. Parker. Returning German pilots. One (SoF) explains what went on. Awards to others. 09:37:24 German pilot (?) speaking (SoF). Pilots walking off & talking w/ speaker continued over. 09:38:07 Young German boys in helmets. People leaving huge bunker, boarding street cars. Bombers over clouds. Airmen looking at plotting table, speaking on telephone (SoF). Contrails. Anti-aircraft positions firing along Mediterranean (?) coast. B-24 Liberator lands w/ nose art “Sunshine”; “Look Out I’m Poison”. Crew walks away from plane, standing. 09:39:27 Contrails over clouds. Artillery in snow. German fighters over Alps (?). Men in command center on radio. Pilots in fighter planes firing on bombers, some hits. CU pilot & stick intercut w/ gun camera. The End w/ Eagle. WW2 Air Battles; Prisoners of War; American POWs; Bomb Shelters; Germany; WW2; NOTE: In our experience German Nazi era material is considered in the public domain throughout the world. If users feel any further clearances are necessary they are to be their own responsibility.