Army Aircraft production at Douglas Company plant in Santa Monica, California. Interior of the Douglas plant, where C-47 (DC-3) transport planes and B-18 Bolo bombers are seen in various stages of manufacture. A factory worker watches as the landing gear of a bomber is raised into retracted position. A row of Wright Cyclone radial engines sit on stands. A group of B-10 aircraft in formation passing by the rock face of a mountain, at altitude below the mountaintop.
Five YG-1B early helicopters are pushed out of hangar by ground crewmen. Ground crewmen lock rotor blades into position for flight. Three YG-1B auto-gyros taking off from a grass field at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Views of five YG-1Bs in flight, then two auto-gyros land.
Views of a scattered wreckage of a B-18 aircraft in a plowed field in Delavan, Illinois. Civilians inspecting the parts of the wreckage including unopened parachutes, a set of broken golf clubs, a music book and a shoe. This was B-18 serial no. 36-265, that crashed June 10,1938. It was assigned to ACTS, Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado.
Firemen try to extinguish the fire as a heavy bomber B-29 Superfortress of the U.S. Army Air Forces burns in the Mariana Islands. A crashed B-29 burns. Thick black smoke rises. Firemen try to douse the fire. (World War II period).
Man refuels B-29 plane. A man on the wing of a bomber B-29 Superfortress of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Another man gives him a hose. The man on the wing refuels the aircraft. Another plane in the background.
Several B-29 Superfortress of the U.S. Army Air Forces in a line at North Field in the Mariana Islands. The B-29s taxi on the runway. A jeep on the side of the runway.
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