Protestant churches in cities near war relocation centers (internment camps) sponsor social activities for Japanese-American soldiers from U.S. Army camps, during World War 2. Japanese-American women at a table, greeting Japanese-American soldiers entering a dance sponsored by a church. Japanese-American soldiers socializing and dancing with young women from a nearby relocation center..
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.
U.S. Army Air Force activities during World War 2. An aviation cadet stands. Group of aviation cadets on flight line at an airfield. Animation of groups going through air and ground training. AT-6 Texan training planes in flight. WASPs (Women Air Force Service Pilots or WASP) board AT-6s. Woman in cockpit of a U.S. Army Air Forcs C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Two women in cockpit of a plane towing a gunnery target. WACs (Women's Army Corps) in a control hangar. Woman fuels an aircraft.
U.S. Army Air Forces home front activities in U.S. during World War 2.. Animation shows air crews undergo an operational training. Air crews getting into U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft. U.S. Army Air Forces AT-11 Kansas plane drop bombs. U.S. Army Air Forces P-39 Airacobra fighter planes strafe targets in water. Officer briefs crews. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bomber plane flies low over ground. Pilot looks through gun sight at target. U.S. Army Air Forces A-20 Havoc bomber in flight.
U.S. Army Air Forces activities in U.S. during World War 2. Animation shows air combat crew of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft representing a squadron. Animation depicts how bomber command and fighter command are formed comprising of individual crewmen, squadrons, groups, and wings. Animation shows Air Service Command work area. Aircraft engines in a repair shop. Interiors of a stock room. Large storage area and steel drums of gasoline. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft in flight. Shadow of B-17 flying over ground. B-17 landing. Damaged B-17. B-17 crash landed. Air service command crews work on a plane to get it in flyable condition. B-17 takes off from an airfield.
A U.S. Navy blimp crashes among trees in the United States. A rescue team of civilian workers uses wooden levers to raise the gondola from the ground and removes the airship fabric from trees. Navy and Marine Officers and men around the gondola of the airship. The men carry wooden planks to the crash site. Men push and lift up the gondola. The officers watch. The fabric of the airship spread over the trees. Men try to remove the fabric from the trees.
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