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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Intended to train German fighter pilots, this silent WWII gun camera film shows Luftwaffe kills of Allied bomber aircraft. Almost all German and Allied fighters carried 16mm cameras to record and verify kills, and help improve overall tactics. They were often processed in the field and screened within a short time, both by intelligence officers and by air crews. The “flashes“ in the footage indicate the use of tracer ammunition. The film starts with a card at (:08) that says “Final Film # 804“ -- obviously one of a long series. The card at (:14) indicates “Original recordings from the war of fighter squadrons against bomber formations“. At (:24), an airfield is seen with German aircraft in camouflaged revetments. A star shell or flare is fired and crews begin to scramble, at (:42) an FW-190 is started by hand crank. The planes take off at (:58). At (1:05), Oberle
