Valkyrie

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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 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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