U.S. Army Air Corps C-2A aircraft being refueled in mid air during a 11,000 mile long endurance flight in Los Angeles, California. C-2A aircraft in flight with the Douglas C-1 aircraft in flight forward and above it. Tanker plane C-1 lowers its hose to Question Mark aircraft. Crew member on Question Mark catches the hose and drags it inside. C-2A aircraft being refueled in mid air. Another aircraft in flight in the background. C-2A Question Mark aircraft being towed by a tractor on a field as ground crew surround it.
Film starts wirh slate reading: "R.A.F. Blasts Holland." At an Royal Air Force (RAF) base in England, United Kingdom, ground crewmen work on a British Supermarine Spitfire aircraft. Closeup of RAF pilot in cockpit of an airplane. Closeups showing fires burning and severe destruction of the Philips Electrical works at Endoven, the Netherlands, in aerial photographs taken during a bombing attack by RAF 2 Group, on December 6, 1942. Animated map illustrates the flight path of the attacking bombers from England, across the North Sea and the German occupied Holland, to Endoven. View of a de Havilland Mosquito bomber with propellers turning and then one of a Mosquito bomber in flight overhead. View from a warship of several RAF 2 Group aircraft flying low over the North sea. Glimpse of a Mosquito bomber flying low enough to affect the ocean surface. View from another aircraft in the formation, of a Mosquito bomber underway low over the water. View of a pilot in a cockpit, wearing learher helmet with earphones and an oxygen mask. View from aircraft approaching the coast of Holland, with two others already low above the mainland. More views of the bombers flying extremely low over Holland. View from a bomber showing agricultural land and the Philips Electrical works at Endoven, dead ahead. German flak guns fire and the bombers return fire by strafing the target building. The camera aircraft pulls up climb above the building and maneuvers over a river and city. Scene shifts to views from a high altitude group of RAF 2 Group, over the target. Views of their bombs bursting on target complex, causing fires and heavy smoke. Scene shifts, again to the bomber aircraft recovering at their home base in England. (Narrator states that 12 aircraft did not make it back.) View of a mosquito bomber crash landed. A severely damaged Lockheed PV-1 Ventura bomber. A crash landed Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber. Air crews conversing after arriving back from the mission. (Note: Losses to 2 Group were heavy, with 14 aircraft brought down by flak and enemy fighters, a 20% loss rate. Three more aircraft crash-landed on returning to England. Fifty-seven aircraft had been damaged and needed repairs.)
U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer bomber aircraft enters service during World War II, Pacific Theater. Shows PB4Y-2s parked on a flight line. Fin and rudder of the aircraft. Engines of the aircraft. Aircraft houses a machine guns. Interiors of a hangar shows bombs being loaded aboard PB4Y-2. PB4Y-2 takes off from airstrip.
United States Air Force Lockheed U-2 aircraft on high altitude sampling missions code named Crow Flight during Project Hasp at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, United States. A U-2 pilot in a cockpit as a airman fastens a restraint strap. He checks a list and goes down a ladder. A captain checks the cockpit, closes the canopy and climbs down the ladder. The U-2 taxis on a runway followed by a jeep and an Air Force station wagon. U-2 number 66718 in flight.
Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bombers on a grass field with engines running. View of bomb load under wing of one. A crashed German aircraft on the field. A German bomb labelled "Nur gegen handelsshiffe" (only against commercial vessels). Soviet ground crews moving bombs on dollies. Squadron of Pe-2 bombers taking off. View of Soviet crew in cockpit and view of waterway beneath with a ship moving in it. A formation of Soviet YAK fighter aircraft in flight. Formation of Pe-2 bombers and crews in cockpits as they release their bombs. A ship on the water seen from cockpit of low flying Pe-2 with aircraft engine and prop visible. A ship exploding and burning. Soviet navigator in bomber using a slide rule. Formation of Soviet bombers and formation of Soviet fighter planes.
U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H aircraft at an airfield in Vietnam during Operation Market Time of the Vietnam War. An officer and a mechanic on a stand as they work on an SP-2H aircraft. Sailors on work stand as they paint decals on lower cockpit area. SP-2H aircraft lined up. Pilots in the cockpit of the aircraft ready for flight. Port engines of the aircraft start up as the aircraft prepare for a patrol flight. A name on a cockpit reads 'Lt. Bruke'. The pilot in the cockpit of an SP-2H as a port engine revs up in the foreground.
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