Enemy targets attacked by U.S. aircraft on 1st September 1944 in World War II. Aircraft of 8th Fighter Command is piloted by Lieutenant Polansky of 62nd Squadron. Aircraft strafes a bridge and a railroad. Fighter aircraft pulls out of dive, shows the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane in foreground. Large explosion occurs. P-47 passes through white and black smoke as does the fighter plane.
Enemy targets attacked by U.S. aircraft on 1st September 1944 in World War II. Aircraft of 8th Fighter Command is piloted by Lieutenant Mc Mahan of 62nd Squadron. Aircraft strafes a train. Shows a return pass at same target. Aircraft fires some of the cars, an explosion occurs. Strafing of motor vehicles on road.
Enemy targets attacked by U.S. aircraft on 1st September 1944 in World War II. Aircraft of 8th Fighter Command is piloted by Lieutenant Polansky of 62nd Squadron. Aircraft strafes a bridge and a railroad. Fighter aircraft pulls out of dive, shows the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane in the foreground. A large explosion occurs. P-47 passes through white and black smoke as does the fighter plane.
Exercise Bright Star 80 in Egypt. Shadow of a helicopter in flight as a soldier from the 1st battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne division looks down from the helicopter. Two soldiers with their faces covered inside the helicopter. A-7 plane makes a bomb run over desert target area and explosion occurs in the desert. Smoke rises after the explosion.
American 8th Air Force fighter operations in Germany during World War II. Lieutenant Willruth of 335th Squadron and O Sharfo of 62nd Squadron chase German ME-109s. View of ME-109s being chased and fired.
The Papal conclave of 1963. Aerial view of the Vatican City. Preparation for the conclave underway. A trailer towed by a truck enters a square. Furniture is unloaded from the trailer. A man carries a mattress. Vatican staff prepares the Sistine Chapel for the incoming Papal conclave. The Papal conclave takes place inside the Sistine Chapel. Frescoes by Michelangelo on the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel is being carpeted. The traditional stove pipe in which the ballots would be burned. The College of Cardinals meets to elect the 262nd Pontiff, the successor to Pope John XXIII. The cardinals enter the Apostolic Palace for the Papal conclave. Tanzanian Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, the first modern native African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, arrives for the Papal conclave. Cardinal Francis Spellman from New York. Cardinal Richard Cushing from Boston. Photographers click pictures.
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