The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. Buildings in the far background. An aircraft taxi on an airfield. A wrecked aircraft on the airfield. An aircraft lands and taxis.
The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. Students stand at attention on an airfield. They march in formation. The students salute. Other students take out carts loaded with bags out of a building. United States Army Air Corps Lieutenant Colonel Carl Andrew Spaatz inspects aviators and mechanics.
The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. An aircraft takes off from an airfield and is in flight overhead. U.S. Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Chief of the Air Service John D. Ryan and U.S. Army General Bliss, Lieutenant General James Guthrie Harbord and General John J. Pershing standing on the airfield. They discuss and inspect airplanes.
The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. A wrecked airplane on an airfield. Men standing near the wrecked British Sopwith fighter biplane. Wrecked parts of the airplane and debris.
The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. Firemen respond to a practice alert and arrive with wheel carts. The carts are loaded with hoses and other equipment. The firemen put the hoses in a tanker. They throw water from the hoses.
A training film on operations of U.S. forces on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II. A map locates Burlesque and Camouflage Islands. The occupation plan for northern landing forces is to occupy and defend the North Carillon group of islands in three phases. The first phase is 'how hour dog day'. Jasper, Ivan, Albert and Allen Islands are included in the phase. Phase II is 'William hour dog plus one day'. Burlesque, Camouflage and Abraham Islands are included in the phase. Operations of phase III include organization of defenses on Burlesque and Camouflage Islands. Capture of the remaining islands is also included in this phase. The Arlington and the Hollis Islands are to be captured. Officers discuss. Smoke rises from naval guns fire. Aerial view of the target area. A ship convoy bombs the main parts of the atoll. Heavy columns of black smoke rise from the bombing. Air support is provided and naval gun fire is carried out according to schedule in phase I. The island is secure after sometime. Animation depicts occupation of the islands and casualties. Japanese men come aboard a ship as they climb a net.
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