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Testing various types of bombs against Japanese-style wood construction, at Eglin Field, during World War II

U.S. Army Air Forces tests of conventional and incendiary bombing of Japanese-style wooden structures, at Eglin Field, Florida, during World War 2. An Army Air Forces Captain (portrayed by actor, Lee J. Cobb) discusses bombing tests conducted at Eglin Field. He holds a pipe in his hand. B-17 bomber takes off over the camera. The plane in flight over the test area. Clusters of small incendiary bombs fall on the test village, causing it to be engulfed in flames. Immediately, thereafter, conventional bombs are dropped on the smoking test village, causing large explosions. The Air Force Captain (Cobb) discusses the results.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051712
Optimum mix of fragmentation and incendiary bombs is determined during tests at Eglin Field, Florida, during World War II

Conclusions of tests conducted by U.S. Army Air Forces, at Eglin Field, Florida, seeking best way to attack Japanese homeland during World War 2. Actor Lee J. Cobb, portraying an Air Force Captain, smoking a pipe in his "office." Views of M-41 fragmentation bomb and a bundle of M-69 incendiary bombs. The Captain holds a model of a B-17 bomber and uses it to discuss bombing techniques. B-17 in flight. Views of effects of fragmentation bomb, showing numerous small holes produced by it. Aerial view of the test area houses. Mixture of M-69 incendiary bombs and M-41 frag bombs being dropped by the plane on the test area. Various views of resulting damage and effects. Test report is shown, concluding that demolition bombs are not effective against congested wooden structures; that M-41 frag bombs deter early firefighting efforts; and that a mix of 80 percent M-69 incendiaries and 20 percent M-41 frag bombs is optimum. Views of Japanese cities burning, from such bombing, during the war.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051713
Battleship bombing tests organized by Billy Mitchell carried out by U.S. 1st Provisional Air Brigade in 1921 and 1923

Brigadier General Billy Mitchell taxis in a Boeing Model 15 ( or a Curtis P-1Hawk) airplane, after landing at an airfield. . Battle ships underway at sea. Mitchell organizes 1st provisional Air Brigade for bombing demonstration against battleship target.. Crews and airplanes train and prepare at Langley Field, Virginia. Soldiers load bombs under plane wings. Planes take off to bomb the obsolete U.S. battleship USS Alabama. View from airplane in flight as it drops phosphorus bomb on the Alabama. View from water as bomb strikes with huge explosion. Armorers prepare heavier bombs for the next demonstration. Planes take off and bomb the USS Alabama again. General Mitchell crouched down beside a bomb loaded on an airplane for new tests in 1923. General Pershing, Admiral Shoemaker, Assistant Secretary of War, Davis, and General Patrick on deck of the Ship, USS St. Mihiel (AP-32) to observe the tests. Views of planes dropping bombs on Battleship USS Virginia and the ship rolling over and sinking. Large formations of 1920s era Air Service aircraft in flight.

Date: 1923
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051731
Views of aviation celebrities in 1927. Plane takes off and crashes after short flight.

Circa 1927 views of aviation celebrities. Charles A. Lindbergh, standing by his airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. One-eyed aviator Wiley Post standing with humorist Will Rogers. Amelia Earhart. .An overloaded airplane takes off and failing to climb scrapes a wing on runway and crashes.

Date: 1927
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051735
The U.S. Army Air Service Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark" being refueled in midair from a Douglas C-1, in 1929.

Mid air refueling experiments in January, 1929. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1 tanker plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark." The hose is let down to the Question Mark, where a crew member seizes it and makes a connection for fuel transfer. After transfer of fuel is complete, the crew member throws the fuel line off and it is retrieved by the tanker plane. The Question Mark lands at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929, and taxiis in to park. The crew members, including Major Carl A. Spaatz, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, and Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, all exit the airplane and gather under the wing with well wishers. The five crew members pose for photographs beside their airplane, the "Question Mark." Ground crew tows the aircraft with a tractor.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051736
1930 Winter testing operations by P-1 Hawk airplanes of the 1st Pursuit Group, led by Lt. Col. Ralph Royce

Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Royce,standing with another officer, by one of the aircraft in the 1930 winter test operations of the 1st Pursuit Group, flying Curtiss P-1C Hawk pursuit planes. View of snow covered flight line with the airplanes lined up.Crews work on the airplanes, pulling propellers through and hand cranking starting mechanisms. An airplane starts engines and moves out of parking space revealing skis on its landing gear. Ground crew shakes another airplane back and forth sideways, and eventually free the skis that were frozen fast. Several of the aircraft successfully take off.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051737