Japanese laborers pack ammunition boxes at a Japanese air base. They prepare the supplies to be air dropped. They adjust the parachutes on ammunition crates and tie up the crates. Soldiers prepare supplies for airdrop. Hundreds of prepared supplies for airdrop. Rations are unloaded from a truck. Packed supplies are picked up by forklift. Planes in the background.
American troops in France soon after the Invasion of Europe by Allied forces in World War 2. An airstrip built by the U.S. troops at St. Mere Eglise near the coast. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter taxis on the strip. Soldiers bring 500 lb bomb on jeep. They fix the bomb under the plane wing. Two P-47s raise dust as they taxi and take off laden with the heavy bombs. A P-38 Lightning fighter taxis and takes off. The planes fly over hills. Footage switches to black and white, and various aircraft crash and combat scenes are shown. In Spokane Washington at an air show demonstration, a formation of three A-25 aircraft is seen and then two of the A-25s collide in mid-air and breakup. One A-25 impacts and explodes and another crashes and explodes. Fire and smoke at the crash site. Scene transitions to a variety of highly dramatic gun camera footage shots from World War 2. German railroad train is strafed. German planes are hit and downed by American aircraft, as captured by automatic combat cameras on the aircraft. Various German aircraft exploding, in flames and falling to the ground, with some heading straight for Allied aircraft before being shot out of the sky.
Pre-flight inspection of the U.S. Air Force F-102A Delta Dagger interceptor aircraft. The plane on the runway. Crewmen nearby. The crew chief inspects the landing gear including ground safety pins, tires, landing light and high pressure air gauge. He checks for hydraulic and fuel leaks. Inspection of the armament door. The pilot climbs up to the cockpit, raises the canopy and inspects the seat belts and shoulder harness. He gets into the seat and inspects the switches and oxygen pressure. On the outside, he examines the flexi glass and wind shield. He climbs down.
Pre-flight inspection of the U.S. Air Force F-102A Delta Dagger interceptor aircraft. The crew chief checks the air intake surfaces, nose boom, dome and holes in the tip. He inspects the forward electronic compartment, fluid tank, filler cap and access door. He checks the landing gear including tires, nose steering unit, taxi light and nose gear door. Inspection of the battery, ground safety pins, circuit breaker panel, armament door, turbine blades, hydraulic reservoirs and gauges. Inspection of the wing surfaces, wing tips and position light. The tail inspection includes the skin, navigation light, vertical stabilizer and rudder, speed brake area, tail pipe nozzle and drag chute area. The crew chief climbs onto the plane and inspects the upper surface, dorsal fin, fuselage panels, fuel intake covers and the fuse. He then climbs back down.
Helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army arrive to deposit soldiers in Cambodia and to airlift a seized NVA weapons cache. Close view of a rifle. Purple colored smoke rises from the LZ landing zone. Soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army look as a UH-1D helicopter lands. Soldiers get off the helicopter. It takes off. A CH-47 Chinook helicopter of the U.S. Army hovers over and prepares to land near the weapons cache.
Opening scenes show Israeli tanks in the Sinai desert. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) troops are seen coping with damaged and destroyed defensive positions and equipment. Momentary glimpse from cockpit of a U.S. Air Force transport aircraft landing on a runway in Israel. Israeli workers emptying explosives and ammunition from the hold of a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-141 aircraft. An American. M107 175mm self-propelled gun being offloaded from a MAC C-5 Galaxy transport plane. Israeli workers unloading many tons of military supplies and equipment from MAC aircraft.
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