Valkyrie

Movie poster

Movie (2008)

Starring:
Tom Cruise (Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg)
Kenneth Branagh (Major-General Henning von Tresckow)
Bill Nighy (General Friedrich Olbricht)
Tom Wilkinson (General Friedrich Fromm)
Carice Van Houten (Nina von Stauffenberg)

A german Colonel, war hero of old military Prussian lineage, leads an attempt to assassinate Hitler and overthrow the Third Reich regime by using a contingency plan (named Valkyrie, after a nordic war goddess), devised by Hitler himself to maintain control of the country in case of leadership decapitation. Based on a true story.

Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk Mk.I

Registration N94466, c/n 15404 of Kittyhawk LCC. A genuine Kittyhawk of the RCAF (AK933) during WWII.
Same aircraft seen in Pearl Harbor.

The german troops are attacked by two P-40

The P-40s strafe the ground troops

One P-40 returns for more

The P-40 firing

Junkers Ju-52/3mg4e

Registration HB-HOT, c/n 6595 of Ju Air from Dübendorf-Switzerland. Painted as the genuine Hitler's Ju-52 wit registration D-2600.

Hitler and his suite arrive to Smolensk in two Junkers Ju-52, escorted by two Messerschmitt Bf 109 and two other unindentifiable aircrafts far behind

The two Junkers Ju-52 about to land

The foremost Ju-52 with its flaps down, in final approach, preceded by the two Bf 109s

Landing with the two BF 109s now behind it (or are these the two unindentified aircrafts that were far behind ?), and the second Junker Ju-52 in final approach

On the ground

The two Junkers Ju-52 maneuver on the ground

The Junkers Ju-52 with the identification D-2600 that was really used by Hitler's plane

Junkers Ju-52/3mg4e

Registration HB-HOP, c/n 6610 also provided by Ju Air from Dübendorf-Switzerland. Displayed in Luftwaffe livery as BT+AY.

von Stauffenberg boards a Junkers Ju-52 en route to Rastenburg to attend Hitler's meeting (in fact, he used a Heinkel He 111[1])

The radial central motor of the Junkers

After landing in "Rastenburg" (in fact, at the same airfield used for "Smolensk", ie Löpten)

Taking off

The beautiful Junkers Ju-52 in flight

Arriving at Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof. This airport located minutes from Berlin city center was operational till october 2008, and has since been converted into a huge recreation park

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6

Registration D-FMBB of EADS Messerschmitt Stiftung , an ex-Hispano Aviacion H.A. 1112 M1L Buchon transformed as Bf.109G in 1986.

A Messerschmitt Bf 109 flying in front of Hitler's plane

The two Messerschmitt Bf 109 flying over the airfield

The two Messerschmitt Bf 109 flying over the airfield

Hispano HA-1112-M1L

Registration G-BWUE, c/n 223, of the Spitfire Ltd association.

Hispano HA-1112-M1L in a hangar at Berlin-Tempelhof, with a Junker Ju-52 in the background

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See also

• Valkyrie at Wikipedia
  
• Valkyrie at Imdb
• Valkyrie at Aeromovies (much detailed, in french)
• Wikipedia account of the real plot