Shows aircraft Curtiss CW-20B ready to take off. Crowd watching. Curtiss BW-20B taxiing out and taking off. Aircraft in flight.
Views of aircraft B-17Ds on flight line after arrival from U.S. for inspection. Airmen inspecting B-17Ds. Many views of B-17Ds parked on airfield.
Views of conveyor system in use at Bell Aircraft Plant, Niagara Falls. Workers inspecting and working with planes moving on belt. Bell P-39 Airacobra taking off. Views of Bell P-39 Airacobra in flight. (World War 2 era war production effort.)
Men near gas cylinders to inflate barrage balloon. Views of men inflating balloons and raising it using winch.
World War II United States 1st Army anti-tank and anti-aircraft batteries advancing in fields. Motorcycles, combat cars, and cavalry advancing. Assault boats crossing river. Pontoon bridge across river and simulated dive bombing can be seen.
Views of diesel powered bulldozer leveling off sandy field and pierced steel planking (PSP) laid down by U.S. Army workers to quickly build landing strip at Marston Strip, North Carolina, supporting Camp Hoffman airfield (later renamed Camp Mackall in 1943). A C-47D aircraft landing on the new landing strip. This was the first use of the perforated steel planking, nicknamed "Marston Mats" (or sometimes misspelled "Marsden Mats"), which were widely employed by the U.S. Army in World War 2.
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