Rare WWII Archives in Color | Air, Sea & Land: Fw 190, Ju 87, S-Boats, Panzers & Artillery

Preserved on 35mm nitrate film and upscaled to 4K, restored, and colorized, this historical compilation presents two contrasting phases of World War II in Europe through wartime newsreel dispatches from spring 1942 and early summer 1940. The footage begins outside besieged Leningrad in spring 1942, as telephoto lenses capture heavy artillery shelling port facilities and oil tanks, followed by freight trains hauling downed British aircraft wreckage from the Channel coast. At an operational Jagdgeschwader 26 airfield, decorated aces Joachim Müncheberg and Josef Priller scramble radial-engined Focke-Wulf Fw 190 interceptors alongside flak batteries to engage Allied daytime sweeps and low-flying bombers in high-altitude dogfights. In Berlin, industrial designers Ernst Heinkel and Ferdinand Porsche join Walther Funk inside the Reich Chancellery Mosaic Hall to receive Pioneer of Labor honors while munition factories earn Model War Plant flags. Thousands of miles east, the spring Rasputitsa turns the battlefields of Oryol and the Valdai Hills into flooded marshland. Soldiers store winter skis, overhaul Panzers in mobile field workshops, cross torrents on assault boats and cableways, and rely on light railways, tracked prime movers, and pack horses to sustain mountain troops and artillery assaults through deep mire. The reel then turns back to May 10, 1940, tracing airborne drops at Rotterdam, armored drives to Abbeville and Calais, and the encirclement of Dunkirk. Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers, coastal flak, and torpedo boats strike Dunkirk harbor and Fort Louis, followed by scenes of improvised British truck piers, captured Allied equipment, and marching POW columns. After brief stops in Ypres and Florence, Luftwaffe bombers launch Operation Paula against Paris rail yards and airfields along the Seine before Panzers and heavy artillery cross the Somme on June 5 to breach the Weygand Line. To support our work and channel, join @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTTqBgYdkmFogITlPDM0M4A/join Thank you! 🙏🎖️ ➤ More aircraft and history videos: https://www.youtube.com/@Dronescapes ➤ Join the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Dronescapes/join ➤ THREADS: https://www.threads.net/@dronescapesvideos ➤ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Dronescapesvideos ➤ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Atellani/ ➤ IG: https://www.instagram.com/dronescapesvideos ➤ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dronescapes.bsky.social ➤ Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/dronescapesvideos ➤ X/Twitter: https://dronescapes.video/2p89vedj VIDEO SERIES: 🎥U.S. AIRCRAFT VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/US 🎥AVIATION VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/aviation 🎥GERMAN AIRCRAFT VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/WWIIGermany 🎥BRITISH AIRCRAFT VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/British 🎥ERIC BROWN VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/EricBrown 🎥B-29 VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/B29 🎥VIETNAM AND KOREA: https://dronescapes.video/Vietnam 🎥TURBOJET VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/Turbojet 🎥SUPERSONIC VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/fastest 🎥EXTREME AIRCRAFT VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/Extreme 🎥STRANGE PLANES VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/Extreme 🎥COLD WAR ERA VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/ColdWar 🎥 WW2 VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/WW2 00:00:00 Archival Prologue to Two Wartime Seasons 00:01:40 Leningrad Siege Guns & Channel Wreckage 00:03:42 JG 26 Coastal Airfield & Raid Alert 00:04:40 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Channel Dogfights 00:08:29 Reich Chancellery Honors Heinkel & Porsche 00:10:19 War Merit Plants & Eastern Front Thaw 00:12:35 Frontline Armorer Shops & Panzer Overhaul 00:14:14 Command Tanks & River Ferry Crossings 00:16:04 Flooded Oryol & Rail-Mounted Supply Trucks 00:18:45 Valdai Hills Mud, Tracked Tractors & Horses 00:24:28 Village Assault & Destroyed Soviet Tanks 00:26:07 May 1940 Western Offensive Map to Dunkirk 00:27:43 Ju 87 Stuka Dive-Bombing Runs on Dunkirk 00:31:10 Torpedo Boat Raids & Flemish Coastal Flak 00:34:37 Dunkirk Truck Piers, Wreckage & Allied POWs 00:40:12 Ypres Battlefield Tour & Florence Rallies 00:40:48 Operation Paula Luftwaffe Raid on Paris 00:43:26 June 5 Offensive & Crossing the Somme 00:46:06 Heavy Artillery & Breaching the Weygand Line #WWIIHistory #MilitaryAviation #ColorizedHistory