Refine Your Search

B-24-Burma stock footage and images

- Showing 2395 to 2400 of 3678 results
Colonel Doolittle and his raiders takeoff from the USS Hornet for bombing raid over Tokyo, Japan

Empennage of a B-25 Mitchell bomber is seen bearing tail number: 40-2268. Camera pans across flight deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8) filled with B-25 Mitchell bombers preparing to depart on a bombing raid over Tokyo Japan, during World War 2. Two pilots stand in front of a bomber, conversing. Crew members pull props through on some aircraft. Many aircrew are seen amongst the aircraft. Scene shifts to view, from upper deck, of engines being started on the B-25s. Copilot seen in one of the cockpits. Camera pans from bow to stern showing flight deck filled with B-25s. The first aircraft (flown by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle) performs a short-run takeoff, with nose high, easily clearing the deck before reaching it's end. Several others follow, making the same steep takeoffs.

Date: 1942, April 18
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033845
Various experimental and prototype U.S. Air Force aircraft being developed and tested at Wright Field in Ohio.

Models and drawings of futuristic planes in the Air Force Laboratories at Wright Field, Ohio. Scenes of XP-67 aircraft in flight. A Northrup N9MB Experimental Flying Wing aircraft taxiing and in flight. A larger version, the XB-35 aircraft under construction. The XB-35 taking off. P-82 aircraft taxiing and taking off. Pilot in P-82. P-82 in flight. The XB-36 aircraft being assembled for its initial test flight, at the Convair factory in Fort Worth, Texas. XB-36 taking off from the Convair factory runway, at Fort Worth, Texas, and then in flight, with landing gear (of two 110-inch single tires) extended. View from above it as XB-36 lands at Eglin Air Field (one of only three airfields capable of bearing its high pressure wheel loading, which required concrete 22 inches thick). Officers standing by the tire of the XB-36 aircraft . B-50 aircraft taxiing and taking off. B-50 buzzing field. Demonstration of variable pitch propeller operation, including the blades going into full feather position. B-50 in flight on one engine, with props on engines 1,3, and 4 feathered. Testing landing gear on C-69 aircraft. C-69 landing. Testing landing gear of B-32 aircraft. Wind tunnels. Series of shots of wind tunnel.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034477
Flight operations on deck of USS Enterprise (CVN-65), in the Gulf of Tonkin, during the Vietnam War

Flight operations on the U.S. Navy ship USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during Vietnam War. Crewman seated inboard a helicopter prior to take off from USS Enterprise aircraft carrier. Man is wearing a flight suit, hard hat, phones. Brown shirt standing on deck. Starboard bow view, USS Enterprise underway launching an A-4C aircraft. Starboard bow view. Ship underway launching an A-6A from second catapult. A-6A leaves the scene. Bow view of ship, showing the entire ship. F-4B aircraft catted from first catapult. A-6A catapulted from second catapult as seen from the starboard side of the ship. Starboard bow view. USS Enterprise with an F-4B being launched from first catapult. Bow view of ship. With an A-4C aircraft spotted forward on starboard side. Aircraft makes a touchdown in far background. Starboard bow view. Ship on underway. A-3B aircraft making landing in background. A-4E aircraft in the landing pattern over deck of ship. Plane touches down for an arrested landing. Starboard view. Ship as an A-4C takes a wave off over the deck. Ship, with aircraft spotted on deck. Ship as an A-4C aircraft comes in for a landing. Scene of flight deck area and bridge. A-3B makes a landing. Looking down over starboard bow area of ship, showing an A-6A aircraft taking a wave off. Several aircraft are spotted on deck, with ship underway.

Date: 1967, March 28
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034602
Aviator Charles Lindbergh talks to U.S. Navy officers aboard USS Saratoga, and takes off in a biplane fighter bomber.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh aboard USS Saratoga (CV-3) in the Pacific near the Panama Canal. Charles Lindbergh seen in a Boeing F3B-1 carrier based fighter bomber (BuNo A-7739) from Bombing Squadron VB-2B aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. Lindbergh visited the USS Saratoga on 8 February 1929. He was aboard for two days and while he was there he was invited to fly the new Boeing F3B-1. The VB-2B made him an honorary member of the squadron. U.S. Navy officers talk to Lindbergh on the deck of Saratoga, including Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves (aka "Bull" Reeves), A.P. Storrs, and W.V. Davis. Pilots pose for a photo with Lindbergh. Lindbergh seated in the aircraft. Squadron emblem of Felix the cat holding a spherical bomb is painted on side of plane. Plane takes off from the carrier deck. Lindbergh, U.S. Military and Navy officials aboard Saratoga talk to each other. Another naval ship can be seen in the sea. Bow of the aircraft carrier.

Date: 1929, February 8
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036681
British and American aircraft and paratroopers attacking German positions in later years of World War II.

US Army Air Force and British Royal Air Force bombers attacking German cities and German production centers in France during World War 2. Allied bomber aircraft take off for mission on German strategic positions. B-17 bombers and P-38 Lightning aircraft taking off and aerial views of them flying in formation. Gunner in plane firing at German Luftwaffe fighter aircraft attacking the formation. A B-17 bomber explodes in air during combat. Bombers drop bombs on oil refineries, munition factories and strategic positions. Ground view of Allied Infantry soldiers marching in Europe. Allied paratroopers dropped from planes. Many views of paratroopers jumping and landing. Mustangs fighter planes flown by Poles with their insignia, bombers with Free French symbol flown by French pilots, and B-25 Mitchell and B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft in action during World War 2. Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft also seen. Gun camera footage from low level bombing flights against enemy German positions in World War 2. Dogfights with German fighter airplanes and Allied guided bombs dropped on munition factories, military and air bases of Germany.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037078
United States base built at Iwo Jima island, Japan; US aircraft bombing Tokyo, Japan.

"Iwo Base Against Japan" showsU.S. Army trucks, vehicles and other supplies being unloaded from an American ship in Iwo Jima island during World War 2. Construction work being carried on to build an advanced base on the island. Vehicles getting stuck in volcanic ash beach areas and being pulled out by bulldozers. Construction of Motoyama airfield number 2. U.S. P-51 Mustangs taking off for escort of American B-29 bomber aircraft in bombing raid over Tokyo, Japan. United States P-51 aircraft shoots down enemy Japanese planes and escorts B-29 to raid Tokyo Japan. 200 pound general purpose bombs are dropped over Tokyo causing fire and smoke. Damaged B-29 Superfortress aircraft return to American air base at Iwo Jima. Flack damage and engine damage shown on several B-29 aircraft after landing at Iwo Jima. Aircraft are repaired.

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037609