Successful endurance flight of U.S. Army Air Corps C-2A aircraft in Los Angles, California. C-2A Question Mark aircraft taxis as it lands at an airfield in California. Crew members get off the plane and being congratulated by fellow pilots. Crew members talk to each other. Crew members including Major Carl Spaatz, Captain Ira Eaker, Lieutenant E.R. Quesada, Lieutenant H.A. Halvorsen, Sergeant R. W. Hooe stand against a plane. A pyramid of empty fuel drums symbolizing the 5,200 gallons of fuel used during the endurance flight of C-2A aircraft. Crew members pose in front of the mounds of gasoline cans.
U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Provisional Wing at an annual training in California, United States. Aerial photo of President Herbert Hoover's residence in California taken by the 15th Photo Section. An aerial photograph of the Cascade Range taken from the vicinity of the Crater Lake National Park by Captain A.W. Stevens. Various peaks in the picture including Mt. Hood, Mount Saint Helens, Mt. Rainier, Diamond Peak.
USS Intrepid (CV-11) aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A battleship and an aircraft carrier fire anti aircraft guns. Flak bursts in the air. Smoke column rises from the aircraft carrier after hit by a Japanese kamikaze. Wreckage of Japanese plane burns on the deck of USS Intrepid. Some is not visible as the planes engine and part of its fuselage penetrated the Intrepid's deck. U.S. Navy crew spray water on the fire with hoses. 8 U.S. Navy sailors were killed and 21 were wounded in the attack.
Flight deck activities aboard a United States aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. 20 mm guns aboard an aircraft carrier being fired from the gun gallery. An air carrier on horizon as it fires. A covered motor launch comes alongside. U.S. Navy F6F, F4U and TBF warm up as they taxi along the flight deck. Aircraft take off. An aircraft lands on the flight deck.
A U.S. C-54 transport aircraft approaching Honolulu to land, with faint rainbow visible behind it. The aircraft lands and taxis in with outboard engines shut down, to the Military Air Transport Terminal on the airfield. An anchor and four stars on field of blue are displayed below the pilot's window. The aircraft parks and sailors quickly form an honor guard as the cabin door opens. Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, wearing a tropical pith helmet, steps from the airplane and is greeted by Rear Admiral John Towers and other officers. Secretary Forrestal is accompanied by Admiral Towers across the tarmac to a waiting car. He stops briefly to converse with Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, before he and Admiral Towers enter the car.
Aerial views of Allied air attack in Italy during World War II. Aerial views of an open field as an aircraft strafes it and smoke rises. A railroad train strafed, smoke rises. A radio station strafed. Buildings on a farm. Railroad trains strafed. A building strafed, a large explosion occurs.
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