U.S. .Army Air Corps (USAAC) fighter planes operating at Florennes/Juzaine airfield (A-78), Belgium, near the end of World War 2, in Europe. P-61A serial 42-5575 "No Love, No Nothing II" of the 422nd Night fighter Squadron, holding short of the active runway, as several P-47s, of the 365th Fighter Group, land. The P61 takes the active and departs. A P-38 Lightning fighter taking off. It has red diamond on outer sides of its tails identifying it as from the 429th Fighter Squadron, 474th Fighter Group. An olive drab P-47 , without markings, parked across from a junkyard of airplane parts. An airman rummaging through the parts. Army vehicles and ground crews amongst several parked P-47 thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
Spectators watch animals performing at St Louis Zoo, Missouri. Baby elephants perform tricks in the zoo. Trainer Floyd Smith around the eight performing Siamese Elephants wearing tutu. Spectators including children look on. An elephant named Pumi performs on a tricycle. A chimp named Captain Roy drives a motorbike in a showboat number under supervision of trainer Mike Kostial (working for George Vierheller). The chimp stands on one foot on the motorcycle and puts the other foot out behind him in the air while driving the motorbike around a ring. Two more chimps jump on his back on the motorcycle. Children watch the show and smile. The chipmanzees drive dodgem cars shaped like small boats. A chimp wearing water skis (with roller skate wheels beneath) is towed behind one of the boats in chimpanzee Captain Roy's show. Mr. George Vierheller looks on and smiles.
Gretl Braun, sister of Eva Braun (Hitler's companion) steps from water,carefully, over stones at shore of a lake. Friends are floating on an air-filled rubber float. Gretl seen on the rubber float as two men friends cavort in the water. On shore, in a meadow, one of the men holds Gretl high above his shoulder as she balances on one leg. A small dog watches the antics.
Exercise Bright Star 80 in Egypt. U.S. soldiers of the 1st battalion, 502nd Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) coach Egyptian troops in firing M-79 grenade launcher attached to M-16 rifles. American soldiers guide the Egyptian soldiers about handling and firing of rifles at a firing range in Egypt. Hits at the target area as Egyptian troops fire rifles and smoke rises. A man with a rifle in the foreground as firing continues. Soldier loads the launcher and targets the rifle towards the sky.
Exercise Bright Star 80 in Egypt. An Egyptian General, two officers talk to each other. Major General Taylor of United States watches the demonstration. Two helicopters come in for landing. They land causing a puff of dust to go up in the air.
Aircraft manufacture in United States during World War I. Men work on a metal part of an air plane at an aircraft manufacturing plant. Men assemble a biplane at the plant. They assemble the wings and remove them.
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