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Aircraft wreckage is broken up for its metal

Name: Aircraft wreckage is broken up for its metal
Uploaded: 2026-09-03T23:55:35.264Z
Duration: 22 s
Channel: The March of Time (Outtakes)
Description: Beside a whitewashed brick shed lies a tangle of wrecked aircraft parts, ribs, panels and struts; three men in work clothes and caps stand on and around it, one prising at a panel, another hammering at a frame, and on a pale piece of tail fin a swastika and part of a number are painted. According to the source the aluminium of these German warplanes is used to make the pots and pans.

Beside a whitewashed brick shed lies a tangle of wrecked aircraft parts, ribs, panels and struts; three men in work clothes and caps stand on and around it, one prising at a panel, another hammering at a frame, and on a pale piece of tail fin a swastika and part of a number are painted. According to the source the aluminium of these German warplanes is used to make the pots and pans.

Period: 1946
Credit: The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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Clip name: HFE009668
Length: 0' 22"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames per Second: 24 fps
Chroma Subsampling: yuv422p10le
Resolution: 1920 × 1080
Format: MOV
File Size: 478,326,724 bytes

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