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U.S. Army Air Forces repair and re-fly a battle-damaged B-17 after an emergency forced landing in World War II

Film opens showing a large formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers flying high overhead as they return to bases in the United Kingdom, during World War 2. Closeup of one plane shows Triangle tail code of the 97th Bombardment Group, and tail number 42-23383. View looking past tail tunner turret towards numerous aircraft in a formation. Scene shifts to view from a B-17 of black flak clouds from German anti-aircraft guns. A B-17 in flight with flak damage to a wing, and another with a destroyed left tail stabilizer and elevator. Closeup of feathered right inboard engine on a B-17 in flight. More views from behind the formation, and looking straight up at passing B -17s overhead. View looking down at a B-17 approaching for landing. Closeup of both right engines feathered on a B-17 in flight. (Narrator states an aircraft named "Stella" had three engines inoperative and was unable to reach the field to land.) Army Air Forces controllers communicating by radio with crews of aircraft. View from ground of the B-17 ("Stella") coming in for a crash landing in an oat field, with landing gear not extended. Closeup from cockpit, of number 3 engine running and number4 feathered. View from inside the aircraft as it crash lands. View of it in the field. It displays tail number 42-5910 and a "G" tail code in a white triangle, identifying it as belonging to the 40th Bombardment Wing, 305th Bomb Group at RAF Grafton Underwood Trucks are seen carrying mechanics and technicians to the crash landing site. Next, the B-17 is seen surrounded by repair crews. It is sitting in a cleared area and its landing gear is intact. Closeup of the aircraft's flak torn fuselage. A severely damaged gun turret on the ground next to the aircraft. Section of cockpit sitting on the ground. Views of mechanics working in their portable shops as they make repairs to the B-17 aircraft. Machinist running a lathe in one of the portable shops.View from ground of the mechanics at work on the aircraft's engines, as engineers employ earth-moving equipment in the background to create a temporary runway to facilitate takeoff. Closeups of the earth-moving equipment at work. More closeups of mechanics working to restore the aircraft. Some work on an engine suspended from an A-Frame. Closeup of two mechanics, one of whom displays images of a Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter aircraft and a B-26 Marauder aircraft on his jacket. More views of eath-moving operations. Closeup of a mechanic being moved by crane as he guides a propeller into place on the B-17. Closeups of mechanics affixing propellers on the plane. View of engineers employing surveying instruments as they ready the emergency strip for the B-17's takeoff. Closeup of the aircraft ("Stella") surrounded by seated mechanics, as she is about ready to fly again. View from behind spectators, including local English people, as the aircraft engines start. The repaired B-17 taxis onto the improvised air strip, and raising lots of dust as she takes off. Glimpse of local people waving as the aircraft becomes airborne.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028381
History of 1st Infantry Division, or Big Red One, focusing on deployment and action during Operation Torch in North Africa

Colonel William Wilson Quinn introduces an episode of "The Big Picture" that tells about the history of the 1st Infantry Division of the United States, called the "Big Red One." We see the boots and the shoes that 1st Infantry soldiers wore beginning with the Revolutionary War, through the Civil War, the First World War and the Second World War. Recruits are shown in training during World War 2 before deploying overseas in Operation Torch and the invasion of North Africa. Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division, General Terry Allen, is seen during the Division's deployment to North Africa in World War II. Soldiers relaxing aboard troop ship. Naval barrage at night followed by amphibious assault on coast of Algeria. Animation shows the target areas of the division as they capture Oran. German counter attack is seen with bombers, tanks, and artillery. American soldier standing with rifles shooting at low-flying German aircraft that are bombing their position. Scenes of German and American gun crews firing. Nazi German General Rommel seen in his staff car. Animation shows route of the Division with others towards the North. Heavy nighttime gunfire is seen. American soldiers meet and greet British troops of General Montgomery's 8th Army.

Date: 1942, November
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028433
German troops carry field post man, transport squadrons bring reserves to the Eastern Front (WWII)

German troops on the Eastern Front during World War II. Snow covered area. Germans chop down a pine tree to use as a Christmas tree on the Russian front in 1941. German soldiers rush out of the bunker entrance. A field post soldier arrives in motorcycle with a sidecar. Soldiers lift the field post man, triumphantly carrying him into the bunker. The German transport squadrons bring reserves to the Eastern Front. Soldiers on sledges. German ski patrol encounters Russian forces while towing equipment cross country. Soldiers unload supplies from an aircraft. German troops use reindeer to transport supplies in the snow. The soldiers wear white snow camouflage suits while skiing in the forest. Frozen coniferous trees covered in snow. Whitewashed Pz.38t Czech tank, used by Germans, passes in the snow.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028443
Japanese-American citizens participate in various works at an internment camp during World War II, United States.

Life of Japanese-American citizens in WRA (War Relocation Authority) internment camps during World War II, United States. Japanese-American doctor with a nurse in Red Cross hospital at an internment camp. Japanese-American officials seated and two women write at a desk in a court. Japanese-Americans cast votes. German-American women play piano. Group of Japanese-American stand in the background. Japanese-American kids in library.

Date: 1942
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060162
Japanese-American doctors and nurses treat patients at an internment camp during World War II, United States.

Life of Japanese-American citizens in WRA (War Relocation Authority) internment camps during World War II, United States. Japanese-American doctors and nurses in operation theater. A dentist treats a patient. Nurse looks into a microscope. Japanese-American kids in bed. Student nurses around a patient lying on bed.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060163
Japanese-American teachers and students at schools and colleges in an internment camps during World War II, United States.

Life of Japanese-American citizens in WRA (War Relocation Authority) internment center during World War II, United States. U.S. flag flies from a pole. Japanese-American teachers in a school with children at WRA center. Teacher at blackboard teaches students in a classroom. Young girl student attaches war saving stamp on a board. Young Japanese-American boys and girls play on a basketball court. Men load truck and work on wooden frame houses. Student attends a class at a college.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060164