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WAR TIME AVIATION PROPAGANDA
Videos are available in VHS video
Pal Format and DVD (region 1 US and Canada) format. The
products will be shipped from the USA and delivered to
your door by the US based company "Historic Aviation".
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WWII Aviation in the
News 1942 - VHS
Video
To counter Nazi propaganda films, the U.S. government
created United News and produced Allied propaganda
newsreels distributed to friendly, neutral and doubtful
nations around the world. The videos below present
a compilation of aviation stories from United News
shot in the heat of battle by combat cameramen and
distributed in the respective year. Take a nostalgic
and entertaining look at these historic films. 72
minutes, B&W. |
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$19.95 |
WWII Aviation in the
News 1943 - VHS
Video
To counter Nazi propaganda films, the U.S. government
created United News and produced Allied propaganda
newsreels distributed to friendly, neutral and doubtful
nations around the world. The videos below present
a compilation of aviation stories from United News
shot in the heat of battle by combat cameramen and
distributed in the respective year. Take a nostalgic
and entertaining look at these historic films. 105
minutes, B&W. |
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WWII Aviation in the
News 1944 - VHS
Video
To counter Nazi propaganda films, the U.S. government
created United News and produced Allied propaganda
newsreels distributed to friendly, neutral and doubtful
nations around the world. The videos below present
a compilation of aviation stories from United News
shot in the heat of battle by combat cameramen and
distributed in the respective year. Take a nostalgic
and entertaining look at these historic films. 112
minutes, B&W. |
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$19.95 |
WWII Aviation in the
News 1945 - VHS
Video
To counter Nazi propaganda films, the U.S. government
created United News and produced Allied propaganda
newsreels distributed to friendly, neutral and doubtful
nations around the world. The videos below present
a compilation of aviation stories from United News
shot in the heat of battle by combat cameramen and
distributed in the respective year. Take a nostalgic
and entertaining look at these historic films. 93
minutes, B&W. |
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$19.95 |
America Takes to the
Air:
Manufacture of Military Airplanes WWI
- VHS Video
This comprehensive collection of rare World War I
footage documents the American efforts to master flight
both at home and in Europe. See aircraft production
from cutting logs to test flight; SPAD XIII, Sopwith
and DH.4 aircraft in action; and footage of the 96th
Aero Squadron. This video contains original B&W
films that have been set to period music. Approximately
60 minutes. |
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$29.95 |
China Crisis
- VHS Video
This is the official Army Air Force film telling the
story of the 14th Air Force in China. Covers the Flying
Tigers in their P-40s, B-24s and B-25s covering the
shipping lanes running from Japan to the southwest,
and Japan's 1944 Great East China offensive. A wonderful
video history of the desperate battles in China, documenting
the defeats as well as the victories. Also includes
"My Japan" bonus film portraying the Japanese
viewpoint for going to war. 58 min. |
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America Takes to the
Air: Training
American Airmen
WWI - VHS Video
This comprehensive collection of rare World War
I footage documents the American efforts to master
flight both at home and in Europe. Visit the Third
Aviation Instruction Center and see the training
of American airmen at Issoudon, France. Also includes
the famed 94th Aero Squadron known as the Hat in
the Ring Gang. This video contains original B&W
films that have been set to period music. Approximately
60 minutes. |
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America Takes to the
Air:
The Best of Aviation Training
WWI - VHS Video
This comprehensive collection of rare World War I
footage documents the American efforts to master flight
both at home and in Europe. See all phases of stateside
pilot training in the Curtiss Jenny at sites from
Minneola Field in New York to Kelly Field, Texas.
Also see the Second Aviation Instruction Center and
the 91st Aero Squadron. This video contains original
B&W films that have been set to period music.
Approximately 60 minutes. |
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The Memphis Belle in
Technicolor - VHS
Video
Join the crew of the "Memphis Belle" on
their actual 25th mission. See them in action as they
approach their Wilhelmshaven target, where they encounter
"flak so think you could walk on it." Pressing
on, they drop their bombs and head for home as German
fighters swarm in firing - yet they return safely.
Directed by 8th Air Force Lt. Col. William Wyler,
film was shot with a hand-held 16mm camera and is
narrated, combining into a powerful documentary. 40
minutes. |
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The World at War Collector's
Edition 11 DVDs Box Set
More than 30 years after its creation, this 26-episode
series remains the definitive visual history of WWII.
Narrated by Laurence Olivier and digitally re-mastered
on 11 DVD disks, this is epic history at its absolute
best, presented with eyewitness interviews and newsreel,
propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the
archives of 18 nations. Includes an additional 8 hours
of bonus documentary material, a contemporary retrospective,
a gallery of photographs from the Imperial War Museum
Collection, and more. Approximately 26 hrs. 30 min. |
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The Memphis Belle - DVD
The most famous B-17 in history, the Memphis Belle,
was documented in the Army Air Corps film, The Memphis
Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress. Not only does
this 2-DVD set contain that 45-minute motion picture,
but it also delves into the background of that production,
incorporating unused footage from the original 34
film reels now housed at the National Archives, footage
of the crew's triumphant return home, and more. Approximately
5 hours total time. |
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Thunderbolt - DVD
The U.S. Army Air Force's Deadly P-47 Fighter Bomber.
1944 film showing the famous 57th Fighter group of
the 12th Air Force as it blasts its way in "Operation
Strangle" cutting German supply lines and opening
the roads to Rome. Outstanding gun camera footage
of trucks, trains, planes, roads and bridges being
destroyed by the mighty Thunderbolt are only part
of the action you will see. Narrated by James Stewart
and Lloyd Bridges. Color, 45 minutes. |
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The Fighting Lady - DVD
This award-winning documentary almost makes you an
eyewitness to the intense U.S. Navy carrier action
in the Pacific. The Fighting Lady, or "USS Yorktown"
(CV-10) commissioned in 1943, fought in the battles
of the Gilbert Islands, Tarawa, Saipan, Leyte Gulf,
Iwo Jima, Okinawa and more. Climb into the cockpit
with the carrier pilots as they battle the Imperial
Japanese Navy for control of the Pacific and view
the best color gun camera action ever recorded by
American naval pilots. 1 hr. 2 min. |
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The Fighting Lady - VHS
Video
This award-winning documentary almost makes you an
eyewitness to the intense U.S. Navy carrier action
in the Pacific. The Fighting Lady, or "USS Yorktown"
(CV-10) commissioned in 1943, fought in the battles
of the Gilbert Islands, Tarawa, Saipan, Leyte Gulf,
Iwo Jima, Okinawa and more. Climb into the cockpit
with the carrier pilots as they battle the Imperial
Japanese Navy for control of the Pacific and view
the best color gun camera action ever recorded by
American naval pilots. 60 min. |
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Target for Tonight
- VHS Video
This is the orginal British version of their night
bombing missions over Germany. Full of great action
as RAF pathfinders light the way for the stream of
bombers flying just behind them. Exciting companion
to the American Version "Target For Today".
75 min. |
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World War II - 4 DVDs
Box Set
Why We Fight. Produced and directed by Academy Award-winner
Frank Capra, this collection includes seven acclaimed
World War II documentaries that feature newsreel footage
from all battlefronts. Includes: Prelude to War, The
Nazis Strike, Divide and Conquer, The Battle of Britain,
The Battle of Russia, The Battle of China, and War
Comes to America. B&W, 6 hrs, 55 min. |
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Report from the Aleutians
- DVD
This John Huston epic WWII film documentary, filmed
over six months, captures the lives of the soldiers
who manned the most remote outpost in the war: the
Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific. This Academy
Award-nominated 1943 production captures the bombings
of this area as well as the loneliness of the troops.
Unusual scenes include B-24s and P-38s trying to operate
under the extremes of wind and rain. 58 minutes.
Bonus feature: Hook Down, Wheels Down, which combines
modern-day interviews and combat footage to tell the
story of the U.S. Navy's "ungainly floating airfields,
the aircraft carriers. 59 minutes. |
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Flying Cadets + Keep
em Flying - VHS
Video
Hollywood goes to war with these two great Air Force
recruiting films. Running time 1:10 Flying Cadets
- "For $75 a month, free room and board, become
a flying cadet and earn an Army Air Corp commission."
Take your Primary Training in sleek Ryan STAs... your
first solo, maneuvers and aerobatics. Leave for Randolph
field, "The West Point of the Air", for
basic training in a North American 'BT'... cross countries,
night flying and formation flight. Now on to Kelly
for final training in AT-6s and... those silver wings.
Super photography - and oh, weren't those Ryan STs
great. (B&W, 40 min.) Keep 'em Flying - So you
didn't make it as a flying cadet - don't give up.
There is still a place for you in the Air Corp as
a navigator, bombardier, aerial gunner, radio operator
or mechanic. As a prospective job candidate you'll
learn the importance of the job and get hands-on training
overhauling engines, patching bullet holes, manning
the control tower, etc. Learn a trade with Uncle Sam!
(B&W, 30 min.) |
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Combat America - DVD
The Mighty Flying Fortress in Action. Produced and
narrated by Clark Gable, this rarely seen 8th Air
Force documentary chronicles the formation of the
351st Bomb Group in Colorado, its assignment to a
former RAF base in England, and the missions flown
against heavy enemy opposition in 1943. It's a vivid
and unflinching look at what B-17 missions were really
like during those dark days when crews flew without
fighter protection. Edited and scored at MGM Studios,
the quality is outstanding. Color, 1 hr, 2 min. |
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Airship Propaganda
- VHS Video
Containing three classic airship films, this video
captures the best efforts to "Keep America First
in the Air." The Story of the Airship features
Army blimps including the spy-basket equipped TC-13,
the semi-rigid RS-1 and the USS Macon. Blimps Go to
Town highlights the Navy's entire 1937 airship fleet.
Finally, Blimp Patrol, produced in Brazil, shows blimps
in combat and rescue. B&W silent and narrated
film, approximately 60 minutes. |
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