A Convair film shows the potentialities of the Convair B-58 aircraft as a weapon system. Convair B-58 aircraft in flight with pod under its wing. View of clouds and ground below. Three Convair B-58 aircrafts fly in formation. Convair B-58 aircraft in flight releases pod 119C. The 119C pod falls from Convair B-58 aircraft, ignites and takes flight.
A film shows the potentialities of Convair B-58 aircraft as a weapon system. Convair B-58 with pod under its wing takes off from ground. A diagram shows its distance in miles. KC-135 refueling tanker aircraft's position shows Convair B-58 aircraft flying behind. Convair B-58 aircraft makes contact with KC-135 refueling tanker aircraft for refueling. Animated aircraft flies above the range of ground attacks. Map of United States of America. Animated Convair B-58 aircraft with pod under its wing in flight
A film shows the potentialities of Convair B-58 aircraft as a weapon system. Airman operates controls inside Convair B-58 aircraft. Convair B-58 with pod under its wing takes off from ground. A diagram shows Convair B-58 aircrafts in flight refueling from KC-135 refueling tanker aircraft. Map of United States shows Convair (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation ) base in Texas. Diagram depicts the distribution of money to sub system vendors and production vendors. Convair B-58 aircraft in flight with pod under its wing.
German Messerschmitt Bf 109 taxis past camera as formation of Dornier Do-17 bombers takes off. The bombers underway in formation. Complete change of scene shows German gun camera view of an American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft being shot to pieces in a head-on attack. A formation of U.S. Army Air Force B-17 aircraft being attacked by German Luftwaffe fighters. One B-17, alone, in trouble, is fired upon while descending. View of German DO-17s in formation. German gun camera film aerial dogfight with American B-17 being attacked from ahead and below. Pieces of the B-17 falling away.
Outtakes from the film "Memphis Belle" shot in France. An aerial view of a B-17 plane in flight. B-17 number-4 engine on fire. A fighter attack on B-17s. Tracers fire at the same. B-17s flying in formation. Vapor trails left behind by the B-17s. (World War II period).
Volcanic eruption and creation of island of Japan. Glimpse of map of Japan. Gardens and rivers. Two men demonstrate samurai sword techniques. Japanese soldiers advance through smoke carrying rising sun flag. Chinese suffering under Japanese military occupation. Two executed with rifles. Japanese soldiers waving weapons and red ball flags. A DC-3 aircraft flying over a Japanese Pagoda. Vies of Old Japan. Farmers at work. One manually turning a water pump with his feet. A man using a pole to propel a boat. Modern methods adopted in Japan for terraced farming. Japanese building railroads. Japanese modern locomotive on South Manchurian Railway. in 1934. A Japanese twin engine bomber taking off. The Japanese ocean liner, Asama Maru, in the 1930s. Glimpse of numerous ships in Tokyo harbor. Western style architecture in modern Tokyo buildings. Neon lights on the Grand Palace Hotel and other establishments in Tokyo. Industrial smoke stacks. Women at work in a silk factory. Finished product stamped "Made in Japan."Steel ingots being made in a Japanese steel mill using scrap iron imported from the U.S.A. Chinese victims of 2nd Sino-Japanese War. Japanese troops on parade. Dead American Marines on shore of Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific in World War 2, killed in battle. Japanese high ranking officers reviewing troops on parade. Japanese warships underway. Troops parading beneath the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. American B-25 bombers on flight deck of the USS Hornet, headed to bomb Tokyo.A crew of Doolittle's Raiders standing by their plane. B-25 taking off from the Hornet. Formation of B-25s in flight. View from bomber of smoke rising from bombing of Tokyo below. Brigadier General Jimmie Doolittle pledging to repeat bombing of Tokyo. Supply train entering a Boeing Company defense plant. United States war production workers being scrutinized as they enter the facility and punching in at a time clock. Poster in the plant picturing a B-29 bomber aircraft on a message in German describing it as an instrument for a "Destruction Battle against the Luftwaffe." Bold letters, above, in English read: "They're Promised-Let's Deliver 'em!" And, below, the words: "B-29, Super Bombers." Slabs of aluminum sheets fill a factory room. Overhead traveling cranes move them. Workers in airplane manufacturing and assembly plant use heat and brakes to shape the aluminum sheets. Multiple views of the aluminum being machined and stamped to specifications. Wings being fabricated. Relatively unskilled labor using jigs to perform the work. Woman war worker operating an overhead crane moving a wing in the plant. Views of plane parts moving across the ceiling via cranes. Women workers driving rivets into wings. Men and women employees working inside fuel fuel compartments of wings. A floor full of engine nacelles. A floor full of 2200 HP radial engines. A skeleton nose section being fabricated. Midsections and bomb bays being assembled. Workers crawling through the airframe during aircraft assembly. A woman working on a connecting tunnel. Sub-assemblies made by contractors arriving at the plant. More views of Boeing employees including young, old, men, and women, at work in the plant.
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