United States Air Force B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft at Fort Worth Air Base in Texas. USAF officer lying on a cot. Interiors of B-36 as a man looks out. Personnel push a 42,000 lb. bomb towards B-36 parked in a hangar. Bomb being loaded in bomb bay of B-36 (bomb appears to be a T-12 Cloudmaker "Earthquake bomb.")
Mechanics work on USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) planes parked in a hangar in North Africa during World War II. Large gas and oil dump in North Africa. U.S. army trucks pass on highway to Bizerte. Semi-truck and trailer carry wrecked USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) P-38 Lightening fighter aircraft. Interiors of a bomb wrecked hangar. Two mechanics walk to steel work rack at tail of B-25 Mitchell bomber, lift machine gun, and climb up to work platform. They install machine gun on B-25 tail. Large hole in hangar ceiling. Mechanic inside the tail adjusts pivot on the gun of B-25. Mechanic climbs on work rack and works on tail of B-25. Several gliders parked outside bomb wrecked hangar. Crew members clean glider nose.
Dramatization in which U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft is constructed in the United States for combat operations during World War II. B-25 in flight over the Gulf of Mexico. Shows different sections of B-25 in flight. Factories in the United States where B-25 is shaped and skins are developed. Women workers inspect altimeters and other aircraft instruments.
Nichols Field, Philippines, prior to World War II in the Pacific. Seversky P-35 pursuit plane parked with engine running. Pilots of the U.S. Army 17th Pursuit Squadron pose on and around a P-35 airplane. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber lands and parks. U.S. Army airmen walking around and examining the parked B-17. The number 21 and 5B painted on the tail of the B-17.
Members of U.S. Army Air Force 73rd Bombardment Wing paint the undersides of B-29 Superfortresses black for night –flying camouflage in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands during World War II. Men stand on ladders and paint the underside of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Side view of the B-29. B-29s are lined up and are painted.
USAF General Henry Arnold meets crew of U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Super Fortress at Bolling Field, Washington, DC during World War II. C-47s lined up on the flight line. General Arnold, Lieutenant General Barney Giles and Brigadier General Lauris Norstad walk on the field. Crew members lined up in front of B-29. General Arnold in the foreground. General Norstad introduces the Aircraft Commander, Lt. DO Horsfall of Kalamazoo, Michigan, who salutes and shake hands with General Arnold. Lt. Horsfall introduces members of his crew who step forward, salute and shake General Arnold's hand. General Arnold tells the crew that U.S. bombers from China bases had been unable to reach the Japanese heartland. But B-29s from the Marianas would now be able to strike places like Hokkaido and Kyushu. He dictates a message for Horsfall and crew to write on a bomb. Crew members gather around bombs as the pilot writes the message, reading: 'To the war lords of Japan we have not forgotten. The B-29s will remind you again, again and again!'
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