Three P-47s of the U.S. Army Air Corps 66th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, raise dust as they take off from Alto Air Base in Corsica,France, during World War 2. Pilot seen in bubble canopy of late model P-47D, named "Halliburtons Hellion" of the 64th Fighter Squadron, during flight over water. Flights of P-47s in formation maneuvers. A Squadron of P-47s in formation overhead. One P-47 dives. View over P-47 in flight over hilly terrain in Italy. View from a P-47 flying very low over some people with a small truck, examining destroyed vehicles and equipment on the ground
Ruins at a port town of Italy during World War2. Aerial views of bombed bridges as seen from a low flying plane. Wrecked railroad train and cut rails. Wrecked bridge. Civilians walking on streets in a wrecked port town with rubble from bombing visible. Civilians in street.
Scenes of destruction in Italy, during World War 2. Partially obscured by foliage, a ship is seen, anchored in cove on Italian shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Wrecked buildings at the shore. A destroyer (probably British) seen briefly offshore . An old woman. Refugees at side of road near a Bailey bridge over the Garigliano river. Sign reads: "Kimble Bridge." Woman with baby. Vehicles pass over the bridge. Civilians walk in streets. Horse-drawn cart passes. A young boy takes the hand of a little girl, as they walk through rubble strewn street and he guides her as they skirt around a skeleton in the rubble. Military tent set up with mosquito netting. ( Note: the area shown is likely in the vicinity of Monturno, near where the Garigliano river empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea. As part of the heavily defended German Gustav Line, this area suffered great destruction during World War 2.)
Aircraft B-52 taxiing. Aerial view of two United States Air Force B-52 aircraft high over clouds. Vapor trails coming off the wings. Crew members seen inside the aircraft at their respective crew positions. Aerial bombs away view of Bombs falling in great numbers from B-52s and exploding on enemy position in jungles below. Air Force tower operator looks through binoculars as B-52s return to land at their home airfield in Guam. B-52s in landing approach and landing after mission. (Vietnam War period).
Aircraft B-52 lands on airfield, using drag chute to help decelerate. B-52 releases parachute on runway during landing roll. Ground crews quickly retrieve the chute and clear runway. Inside hangar, they repack the drag chute for reuse. Plane taxies on airfield. Ground crewman hooks up hose to underground fuel supply for refueling the B-52 airplane. (Vietnam War period).
Trailer trucks loaded with bombs enters the munitions loading docks at a Strategic Air Command Base in Guam, during the Vietnam War. Armorers assemble tail fins and insert fuses in AN-M113A1 thousand pound bombs. Caps being removed and fuses being screwed into bomb noses. Arming wires fastened to the fuses. 750 pound bombs being unloaded from racks and mounted under wings of B-52. Loaded B-52s taking off from airfield in darkness and climbing to high cruise altitudes from where the setting sun is still visible, as they fly West.
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