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General Henry (Hap) Arnold reports to the nation on status of U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II
General Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, seated in front of world map, reports that since start of World War 2, the U.S. Air Force has gone from number 7, to number 1, in the world. Defense plant workers are shown walking near their place of work. A college football game shown in progress. Individual young men who left civilian life to became pilots, bombardiers, radio technicians, and gunners, in the Air Forces. A commercial DC-3 aircraft taxing to park at an airport. Shown are people who make the Air Forces possible, including many men and women workers at factories and manufacturing plants making aircraft and parts for the World War 2 effort: Steel workers, a woman working on a plane fuselage, actor James Stewart (in uniform), a welder at work, a typist, a machinist using a caliper, and an older couple at home, who forgoe driving their private car, shown covered in their garage. The flaming wreckage of U.S. aircraft at Hickam Field, on December 7, 1941. Large formation of German Heinkel He-111 bombers in flight. Formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) bombers. U.S. P-40 pursuit planes taxiing out from parking places. Assembly line in U.S. aircraft manufacturing plant. U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress planes on assembly lines. Workmen work on engines and aircraft fuselages. At the Douglas plant U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bombers being assembled. Workmen inserting machine guns into a wing.
United States Air Force operations in the European Theater during World War II.
U.S. Air Force operations in the European Theater during World War 2. A bombardier gets out of the nose of a U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber plane. Pilots talk beside a B-17. An animation of number of sorties and tons of bomb drops over enemy target. Aerial point of view (POV) shots from cockpit of a US Army air force aircraft in flight on an attack run flying low over houses and industry of enemy territory in Europe during World War 2. An aerial formation of B-17s, P-39 Airacobra fighters, B-24 Liberator bombers and P-38 Lightning fighters. Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler giving an impassioned, animated, emotional speech. German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in a conference. American men and women war production workers inside a factory making war materiel. U.S. firing squad fires salute over a grave. An airplane burns and a crew member face down on the grass. U.S. Army Air Force fighters and bombers in flight and bombs away views as bombers drop bombs on German targets .
Wounded U.S. and German soldiers treated at field hospital after Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II.
View of U.S. Army Field Hospital set up in Normandy, France, following the Allied invasion in World War 2. U.S. DUKW (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) passes along a road. American wounded being carried on stretchers to hospital tent. Intravenous treatment being administered to a wounded soldier; man standing holds IV bag. American Army nurses and corpsman preparing bandages inside a field hospital tent. Nurses seated near a tent. One drinks coffee from her metal mess cup. Nurses comforting and assisted wounded soldiers. Two German prisoners of war (POWs) pose for camera. It is unusual that two of the German soldiers appear to be of East Asian descent. (It has been reported that there was a Korean man named Yang Kyoungjong who was three times captured and conscripted into the Japanese army, then the Soviet Army, and then the German Wehrmacht during World War 2. He was captured by the U.S. Army during the invasion of Normandy. The identify of the two German soldiers of Asian descent seen in this footage is unknown.) German POWs carrying a wounded comrade toward a treatment tent. A German POW Army doctor and his assistant treating a soldier for shrapnel wounds. The doctor waves toward German POWs to bring their wounded, on a litter, to him. POWs carrying wounded on a litter. Paratrooper of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, with bandages across his face, carries a wounded buddy to treatment area. Closeup of the trooper smiling in spite of his bandaged face. Ambulatory wounded U.S. soldier being registered by Army nurse. Corpsman of 101st Airborne, on stretcher on the ground.
U.S. Rhino barge screws turn at Plymouth harbor, England during World War II.
U.S. Rhino barge in Plymouth harbor, England during World War 2. Rhino ferry screws turn at the harbor. U.S. Navy PB2Y Coronado flying boat patrol bomber in the background. Landing craft around barges. A few other ships and tugs seen in the harbor area.
U.S. military training film demonstrates skills taught to soldiers,and how to conduct various combat operations
Film based on advantages and procedures of using U.S. Army training films to instruct troops during World War 2. Animated film depicts aircraft identification methods in World War 2 to distinguish between aircraft of friend and foe in flight. U.S. aircraft on flight line. Propeller of aircraft. Engine of aircraft. Instructor teaches men about electricity functions which demonstrates operations of a spark plug, radio vacuum tubes, telegraph fuse, and recoil mechanisms. Shows how signal communications are maintained by use of wire on field. U.S. troops drive army jeeps, tanks, and trucks. Soldier repairs a tank. Correct posture of a cavalry soldier while riding a horse. Barrage balloon in sky above a U.S. ship in harbor. Soldiers work on a balloon fiber and on folding a balloon. Demonstration to build a bridge and how to destroy it with demolition blast. Soldiers fire various artillery guns. Demonstration about rifle squadron maneuvers in combat. Animation depicts how Quatermaster Corps get supplies to field of action.
Airfield in Philippines prior to World War II in Pacific. Pilots with the Philippines Airlnes Twin Beech airplane
Aerial views from airplane flying over an airfield near the ocean in the Philippines, prior to World War 2 in the Pacific. (The airfield is probably Iba Field, on Luzon, which was destroyed by Japanese bombers on Dec. 8, 1941.) Army airplanes are parked on the field. Numerous buildings and facilities are seen. A bivouac area of tents near the water. Scene shifts to Philippine Airlines pilot Paul Irving Gunn and his assistant, aviator Emil Sylvan Scott, standing in the grass, by a Philippine Airlines model 18 Beechcraft. The airplane is bright red with the number 2 painted on its nose and the company logo on its fuselage.
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