Aircraft carrier USS America underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Flight deck personnel on the deck of the aircraft carrier. A U.S. Navy F-4B Phantom aircraft parked on the flight deck along with other aircraft. A man gives signals to the aircraft and it takes off. Other aircraft also take off from the flight deck. Part of the superstructure of the ship. A F-4B Phantom aircraft makes a recovery and releases its brakes. The wings of the aircraft are folded and the airplane taxis off. The F-4B aircraft makes an arrested landing. Other aircraft parked on the flight deck. A U.S. Navy A-3B Skywarrior type aircraft makes its approach, touches down and rolls out to a stop. An arresting wire is released from the tail hook of the aircraft. A U.S. Navy A-1G Skyraider aircraft comes in over the deck. It makes a recovery. The aircraft comes to a stop and folds its wings.
USS aircraft carrier ship Constellation (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin. A U.S. Navy UH-2B helicopter takes off from the flight deck of the ship. U.S. Boeing F-4B aircraft takes off from the angled deck of USS Constellation. Aircraft parked on the flight deck. U.S. Navy E-1B Tracer aircraft being catapulted from the angled deck. An F-4B aircraft takes off from angled deck of the ship. F-4Bs parked on the deck. (Vietnam War period.)
Wreckage of an aircraft at El Aouina Airport in Tunisia during World War II. A man holding a piece of plexiglas in his hand. A wrecked 3-motored Italian Camo 6 - Savoia-Marchetti SM 81 Pipistrello aircraft on an airfield at the airport. '601-5' written on the aircraft. A captured German Volkswagen type 82 Kübelwagen drives up beside the wrecked aircraft. A few U.S. officers get out and inspect the aircraft. View of wrecked German and Italian aircraft on the airfield. A USAAF 97th Bomb Group, 340th Bomb Squadron, B-17F 42-5402: B-17F-50-BO Flying Fortress taking off from the airfield. Abbreviated tail number '25402' seen on tail. Several wrecked aircraft on the airfield. Another B-17 aircraft takes off, displaying a large shield image on its tail This is followed by a U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell taking off. The wreckage of aircraft spread on the airfield. A few U.S. soldiers walking into a deep bomb crater and inspect the nacelle and the motor of the aircraft. Two soldiers beside another wrecked Italian Camo 6 - Savoia-Marchetti SM 81 Pipistrello aircraft. The aircraft is painted in camouflage paint and bears the number 605-7. One of the soldiers looking into the fuselage of the aircraft. A wrecked German aircraft on the airfield. The aircraft damaged completely. View of parts of the wrecked aircraft.
A raid on Berlin, Germany during World War II. Formation of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in flight. The crew wears masks in the aircraft. Aerial views as the B-17 aircraft drop bombs on Berlin. An injured air crew soldier carried on a stretcher by other soldiers after landing. Various parked B-17 aircraft after a mission. Name on one includes the word "Betty". U.S. Colonel Mumford interviews Army Air Force crew members at the air base, including Pilot Lieutenant Brown who stands by his B-17 named "I'll be Around" and comments on the mission. The soldiers talk and laugh. Some sit on the aircraft and others stand in front of the aircraft.
Inspection of a U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet jet engine at Brize Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom. The B-47 Stratojet lands at Brize Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom. An airman pushes a maintenance rack alongside the jet engine of the B-47. He climbs upon the rack and opens the access door from the engine. Another airman stands upon the nacelle of the engine. Two men work on the jet aircraft engine and inspect it. An airman closes the nacelle over the engine and climbs down the rack. He moves the rack out of the area and then replaces the bottom panel of the engine. Another airman stands on the maintenance rack and checks the flap on the right wing of the B-47.
Ice jams in areas of Tangier Island and Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay Maryland, leave resident fishing community cut-off from supplies for weeks and starving. A truck drives up in front of a U.S. Army Air Corps Keystone B-6A biplane bomber at a hangar of Langley Field. The U.S. airmen transfer bundles of food supplies from truck to aircraft. The B-6A in flight. Aerial view of ice-jammed area showing houses and barns surrounded by ice jam. The bundles of food being dropped from B-6A onto Tangier Island. The B-6A in flight.
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