A Present From The Nazis (1941)

Title reads: “A Present from the Nazis“. Airfield somewhere in Kent. Various good shots of a Messerschmitt 109F as it is pulled from a hangar by mechanics. The plane was captured after it had made a forced landing near St Margaret’s Bay, the propellers are damaged. Narrator describes the German pilot, Captain Pingel, as “a Prussian Officer who wears corsets and claims to have destroyed 22 British aircraft“. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on t
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