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Training film "Troop Carrier Airplanes - Cockpit Procedures" shows pilot training of controls before and during troop carrier flights

Training film 'Troops Carrier Airplanes' shows carrier operations. Insignia of 89th Troop carrier group. Fleet of Aircraft in flight. Soldiers march and board C-47 Aircraft. Pilot and co-pilot seated in the cockpit. Soldiers strap themselves inside the airplane. Pilot and crew check the aircraft before its take off. Captain Mathew does a final check before boarding C-47 airplane. Captain Mathew assists Lieutenant inside the cockpit. He checks the landing gear, auto pilot hydraulic and operates control panel. Pilot starts the engine. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 21 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043119
Pilots operate controls seated in C-47 Skytrain and prepare to land during training.

Captain Mathew of 89th Troop carrier group trains Lieutenant in aircraft flying. C-47 Skytrain in flight. Pilot and co pilot operate controls seated in cockpit of C-47 Skytrain. The aircraft lands on runway. C-47 in flight with fields on ground. Co pilot reads from a piece of paper and pilot checks the controls. They check the speed of aircraft and switch the ignition button. Co pilot checks stop watch. Pilot opens aircraft wheel and prepare to land. C-47 Skytrain lands on runway. Man gives hand signals. Pilots switch off the engine and check controls. They disembark from the aircraft. Soldiers seated inside C-47 Aircraft. Fleet of aircraft in flight. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 12 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043120
United States soldiers fire field gun Howitzers for test firing in United States.

United States soldiers fire Howitzer. Convoy of tanks drives on road. Crane unloads Howitzer on field for fire testing. A group of soldiers fires Howitzer. Number of Field guns fire at target during test firing. Explosions on target hit area. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043428
Margaret Truman christens battleship USS Missouri during its launch in United States.

United States navy launches mighty ship USS Missouri. Margaret Truman christens the battleship. Ship Missouri move from its bay area into water. Huge crowd gathered to watch the launch. Battleship Missouri sails on water surface.

Date: 1944, January 29
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043433
Army Air Force truck extinguishes fire by carbon dioxide in United States.

New fire fighter demonstrated by Army Air Force. Tests conducted by Air Force fire truck that extinguishes fire by carbon dioxide. Long pipe on truck throws carbon dioxide on fire and extinguishes it. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043436
Public demonstration of "fire bomb" and its use supporting U.S. Marines in the Battle of Peleliu in World War II

A U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat airplane is seen parked on a ramp, with a bomb slung under its fuselage. The narrator identifies it as a "fire bomb," containing gel gasoline. Scene shifts to an F6F dropping one from several thousand feet, in a demonstration. The incendiary bomb creates a swath of fire along the ground, in the direction of flight. A flight of two F6Fs repeat the demonstration, dropping their bombs simultaneously, from a formation. Another drops a bomb on a pier at a waterfront. View to the rear from an airplane that just dropped a bomb in a wooded area. Views of actual U.S. 1st Marine Division operations on Peleliu, Palau Islands, during World War 2, showing F4U Corsair aircraft, flying low and slow, with gear down, dropping napalm incendiary bombs on Japanese troops dug in on a ridge. View of smoke rising from bomb strikes at targets near a river.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045622