Outtakes from the Memphis Belle documentary movie. Combat missions of B-17 aircraft in France. B-17 stationary on USAAF airfield in England. Aerial cameraman operates 35mm Mitchell camera form waist window of B-17 in flight. Several views of fighter planes making pass at the B-17 plane with the camera. Tail gunner of B-17 plane firing. (World War II period).
United States Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, used by 303rd Bomb Group, in England during World War II Fifteen B-l7 Flying Fortresses in groups of five, in formation. The B-17s in flight. Twelve B-17s in a formation flight. The B-17s fly over the clouds.
United States Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers in action in Thailand during World War II. Men work in a plant in the United States as they manufacture B-29 bombers. Men work on the body of the aircraft. In China, fuel barrels being loaded onto an aircraft for transporting. Chinese troops roll the barrels and pile them up at an air base for refueling B-29 aircraft. Fuel being unloaded from the barrels into a huge storage tank. Piled up barrels. A B-29 aircraft takes off and in flight. The Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok, Thailand being bombarded by the B-29s. Bombs impact and billows of smoke rise up.
United States Army Air Force B-17 aircraft in flight in European Theater during World War II. United States 8th Air Force B-17 aircraft in flight. Bomb bay doors of the aircraft open. Five B-17 aircraft fly in a formation over water. A B-17G aircraft in flight and number 4 engine being feathered and restarted. A formation of seven B-17 aircraft in flight.
Structural tests of U.S. Air Force B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton. B-36 fuselage and wing section undergo various tests. Instruments attached to B-36. Outer wing section of B-36 collapsed. Station 26 with break in wing section. B-36 wing section undergoes tests. Two civilian personnel at large instrument panel. Wing section undergoes a test.
Structural tests of U.S. Air Force B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton. B-36 fuselage, from tail forward, and wing section being lifted off the floor during a Static Test hangar. B-36 fuselage and wing section being turned upside down as weights are placed on underside of wing. Civilian personnel at instrument panel. Fuselage and wing section of B-36 undergo tests. Man at instrument panel. Various stations of B-36 with the stress and ruptures of the parts.
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