8th Air Force 1943 to D-Day

8th Air Force 1943 to D-Day
Film of the 8th Air Force Bomber and Fighter Commands from 1943 to D-Day

Enjoy this history of the 8th Air Force from 1943 to D-Day in World War II with this discovered archival film footage. The first footage is in early 1943 on a heavy bombardment mission over Europe.  View the heavies as they hit German targets. Watch gun camera footage as fighters of tangle with the enemy in the air.  Follow fighters as they attack airdromes and trains.

Watch the men on the ground and in the air with mostly black and white, silent footage.

There is a lot of unidentified aircraft/groups but quite a bit of identified.

Identified:  44th, 91st, 93rd, 94th, 95th, 100th, 303rd, 305th, 385tth and 445th Bombardment Groups.

4th, 55th, 56th, 78th, 352nd, 353rd, 355th, 356th, 357th, 359th and 361st Fighter Groups

Watch bombers in formation and as they fly through flak (ack-ack).  Some have feathered props.  Ground crews await the group returns and aid wounded airmen. View some of the nose art that were a source of pride.   View B-17s and B-24s in a number of scenes.

Feel like you are in the cockpit of a P-47 or P-51 fighter as they attack Me-109s, FW-190, ME-110, JU-52, JU-88, HE-111 and other German Aircraft.  Fly with aces Beeson, Gabreski, Anderson, Blakeslee and many more.  Find out which pilots would later become prisoners of war (POWs) and some would be killed in action (KIA).   Strafing footage shows fighter pilots attacking aircraft on the ground, airdrome facilities and other strategic and tactical targets including trains and marshalling yards.

Missions include Wilhelmshaven, Berlin, Warnemunde, Solingen, Leverkusen, Emden, Bremen, Munster, Schweinfurt and others.

229 minutes of black and white footage and visual record of the 8th Air Force: 1943 to D-Day in action in World War II from early 1943 to D-Day.

Price Each: $34.99
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SKU: 8AF1943-44

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