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Operations of United States 8th Air Force 492nd Bomb Group in England during World War II.
Operation Carpetbagger by the 492nd Bomb Group of United States 8th Air Force during World War II. View of automobile traffic on a London Street. London "Carpetbaggers" personnel working at the London headquarters of United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force. At Harrington field men load supplies on trucks for French resistance forces (Maquis, FFI). Men workout the daily packing schedule. Men pack guns, grenades, machine guns and other ammunitions. Special H containers and C containers for loading 303 ammunition. Boots, socks being packed. Gasoline Jerry cans being put in containers. Men place guns in containers. Instructions in French also placed with the supplies for the French resistance forces. Men pack explosives and radio sets. Medical supplies put in baskets. Harness and parachute shops in Holmes where men attach parachutes to containers. Packages being transported to airfield for dropping to the targets. A man on a telephone informs about the daily supplies to Special Forces headquarters in London. S-2, an intelligence officer forwards the list received from London. A man plots the target area on a map. In the weather room detailed map of the area is being prepared. Officers make a selection of the targets. S-2 informs the headquarters about the route of the planes. Supplies being loaded onto United States B-24 aircraft specially configured to carry and drop the containers using the bomb rack system in the aircraft. Flight crew is briefed before the operation. Chief Navigator talks about the course to be taken by the planes and the targets to be hit. Pilots work on a flight plan. Aircraft take off. An officer reports about the take off of the aircraft to the 8th Air Force headquarters.
President Edvard Beneš reviews troops in England before returning to to Czechoslovakia after seven years of exile.
President of Czechoslovakia Dr. Edvard Beneš returns to his homeland after spending seven years in exile in World War II. A car pulls up and Czech President gets off the car in England. President Beneš reviews Czechoslovakian troops at an airport as he leaves for his homeland after seven years in exile. Beneš boards an aircraft, and it takes off.
Air Sea Rescue aircraft U.S. PBY Catalina flying boat escorted by P-47 Thunderbolts to England during World War II.
A dramatization detailing the rescue by ASR (Air Sea Rescue) aircraft of a damaged B-24 Liberator bomber in European Theater during World War II. A B-24 bomber with number 2 engine shut down, in flight over water. Pilot of B-24 contacts ASR control room based in England. ASR controller contacts U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighters patrolling over sea. P-47s escort the B-24 to airbase in England. ASR methods showing PBY taxiing on water, high speed motor boat underway, and dinghies dropped by means of parachute from P-47s.
A crowd watches as a United States soldier climbs a fence and puts a helmet on a statue in London, England.
Victory in Europe Day celebrated in London, England towards the end of World War II. United States soldiers gather around a statue. A U.S. soldier climbs a fence to reach the statue. He puts a helmet on the statue. The soldier climbs on the statue and sits on the top of it and hangs his gun around the statue. The soldier drinks on the top of the statue. The civilians watch the soldier.
Underwater pipelines,petroleum casks and electrically operated fire lines are revealed off coast of England soon after World War II
Britain reveals and demonstrates operation of a literal fire wall off the cliffs of Dover that had been set up to stop a potential German invasion of England. With World War 2 in Europe recently ended, Britain demonstrates the underwater pipelines and petroleum casks that would have generated a fire line to stop German invasion troops, ships and aircraft. Demonstration of the defenses: Large smoke column rises. Electrically operated fire lines are set on fire along coast line to burn forces of any incoming invasion. British Army soldiers near a line of mines, inland, that served as a second line of defense. A mine area is exploded for demonstration.
British frogmen crash dive using self-contained oxygen tanks during underwater training maneuver in England.
British frogmen, experts in underwater demolition, in England during a training. They crash dive in a training maneuver using self-contained oxygen tanks and rubber frog's feet to swim through otherwise impassible obstacles and prepare for demolition work.