Valkyrie

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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

First straffing pass of the P-40s

On P-40 returns for more

Only the right 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, far back, unindentifiable aircraft

The two Junkers Ju-52 about to land

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

Landing with the two BF 109s now behind it, and the second Junker Ju-52 farther behind

On the ground

The two Junkers Ju-52 maneuver on the ground

Messerschmitt Bf 109

The two Messerschmitt Bf 109 G flying over the airfield

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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