U.S. Air Service Lt. M C Markham and Lt. L S Powell view the paper iron crosses pasted over bullet holes of Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft.Ground crewmen push a damaged Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft at Dogneville in France. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
V-2 rocket launched at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico during World War II. Various stages of the pre-firing preparation. Technicians work on the rocket. Installation of equipment in the war head of V-2. Jeep carries instruments to the launching area. The V-2 rocket in the launching tower. A truck carries the trailer for hauling the V-2.
Scenes on an escort carrier of Task Group 52.2 off Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Aviator converses with another officer. Crew members pushing several General Motors FM-2 Wildcat aircraft with wings folded, along the flight deck. Some of the FM-2s have someone in the cockpit and engine running. These are simply guided by a few deck crew members.
USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in the Caribbean. Airmen work on a U.S. Grumman S2F tracker aircraft. S2Fs are warming up on the flight deck of Valley Forge. A U.S. Piasecki HUP-2 helicopter warms up and then takes off. An S2F catapults and leaves the ship.
Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War 1. Salmson 2A2 aircraft are parked in a field with men seated on the ground in the shade of their wings. A pilot, standing next to a Salmson 2A2, puts on his flight gear while smoking a cigarette. He climbs aboard the airplane which has the red and blue buffalo insignia of the 99th Aero Squadron painted on its fuselage. The photographer- gunner in rear cockpit loads canisters of ammunition on his Darne-built Lewis twin machine guns and checks the movement of the gun's scarff ring mounting. He receives an aerial camera from a ground crewman. Two airmen work on a Vickers machine gun installed beside the nose of the aircraft (synchronized to fire through the propeller). Scene shifts to an aircraft taking off. Camera shifts back to the aircraft getting ready, where a ground crewman pulls the propeller through to clear any hydraulic lock and the pilot starts the engine. The aircraft taxis and takes off.
DesRon 2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) "hunter killer" exercises of the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) and USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway in Guantanamo Bay. SH-3A helicopter hovering above water, dipping sonar. An S-2E aircraft flies by with boom extended. Views of the two destroyers from afar and up close toward their port and stern. The S-2E flies low overhead.
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