Valkyrie

Movie poster

Movie (2008)

Director: Bryan Singer
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-40 Warhawk

The german troops are attacked by two P-40

The P-40s strafe the ground troops

One P-40 returns for more

Only the right wing machine gun is firing

Junkers Ju-52

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 of Hitler taxies in front of the reception committee

The two Junkers Ju-52 on the ground

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

Hitler and his party disembark from the plane

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

Left wing view

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

Boarding the Junkers back to Berlin after the attempt on Hitler' life

Taking off

The beautiful Junkers Ju-52 in flight

Arriving at 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 109

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

A Messerschmitt Bf 109 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