CONQUEST BY AIR
1945 · National Archives and Records Administration (via FedFlix)
Finding US Government work
The record names a federal body as the creating agency: War Department. Army Air Forces. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act).
The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate.
- Creating body, as recorded
- War Department. Army Air Forces
- National Archives Identifier
- 2894 (local identifier 18-C-506)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.2894 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
The record
The Internet Archive item's description, as transcribed by the uploader from the source archive's record. Check it against the National Archives catalog entry linked above.
National Archives and Records Administration CONQUEST BY AIR War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947) ARC Identifier 2894 / Local Identifier 18-C-506. Reel 1 shows a flashback of French troops storming German trenches during World War I; 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; Gen. Eisenhower and his aides conferring; the unloading of dead and wounded from B-17's returned from the Schweinfurt raid; panoramic views of ruined Schweinfurt on Aug. 20, 1943; P-47's and P-51's in the air; bombs falling on German aircraft plants; and Folk-Wulfs on an assembly line in Germany. Reel 2, Allied officers confer prior to the Normandy invasion. B-24's raid Romania's Ploesti oil fields; gun-camera footage records dogfights and the strafing of grounded German planes. Gen. Marshall confers with British officers. Allied troops land in Normandy and advance in the Ardennes Forest. Bombs fall on German tank factories. Shows the ruins of a factory in Bomark. Reel 3, U.S. and British officers confer. Berlin and Bremen are bombed. Shows ruins in Germany. Transportation and communication centers are bombed. An atom bomb is tested. DVD copied by Liz Pruszko.