Animated map showing Burma Road, a road linking Yunnan, China to Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar). Aerial view of the Burma Road. Part of the Burma Road on hillside. Chinese laborers clear away rocks. Laborers use pickaxes for digging rocks. Laborers working on Burma road use sledgehammer to chip away rocks. Chinese laborers’ children smash small stones while playing nearby. Chinese laborers working on Burma Road in mountain slope. Film narration by Ronald Reagan (future United States president).
Sign board on an entrance building reads 'Bolling Air Force Base' in Washington DC. B-26 Marauder aircraft, B-25 Bombers and other aircraft parked at Bolling field. Maintenance crew works on engine of aircraft. Aircraft C-24 taxiing up toward alert crew member waving. Administrative personnel work at their desks. An early business machine automatically printing a piece of paper, with print unit moving up and down in front of paper. Airman boards a boat that serves as a ferry between Bolling Air Force base harbor and the Pentagon. Dental check up of an airman in dental clinic. Sign board reads 'Bolling Air Force Directory'. View of Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument as seen from a moving boat on the Potomac River, near the Memorial Bridge. The Jefferson Memorial. Federal buildings in Washington DC.
From a U.S. Army Air Force training film, "Flying the P-47. High Altitude flight and aerobatics." A boy interrupts a pilot and his wife who are kissing. He sits between them on a sofa and shows his drawings of various aircraft, including B-17, B-24, P-34, and P-47 aircraft. He talks about characteristics of the various planes. View of a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft in flight. Picture of the aircraft with atmospheric pressure and altitude measures. Graph shows the altitude of a P-47 climbing, and the simultaneous readouts of Manifold Pressure and Turbo RPM.
Allied bombers attacked by German 'flak ships' in English channel during World War 2. German AA crew members look out for allied bombers in skies and open fires. Shows a heat seeking missile chasing its target. German Messerschmitt Fighter pilots in battle above the Atlantic. Inside the cockpit view of a German pilot in mid air. Luftwaffe Me-109 and Me-110 aircraft open fire on U.S. B-24 Liberators and U.S. B-17 Fortresses and some are seen in flames. U.S. pilots eject in mid air. Smoking wreckage of downed U.S. fighters. Captured U.S. Army Air Force pilot taken away by German captors as a prisoner.
Aircraft recognition training film. British Lancaster Bomber in England. Lancaster moves on runway and takes off. Lancaster is the modified version of Manchester bomber used earlier. Differentiation of Lancaster from other heavy bomber aircraft. Drawings contrast the design of the British Lancaster with the following: Manchester, Russian TB-7, German FW-200, British Halifax, American B-17E, British Stirling and American B-24 heavy bombers.
A film titled 'Modern plant services and Allied aircrafts' shows workers streaming out of facilities of Hindustan Aircraft Limited, in Bangladore, India, during a shift change, during World War 2. View inside one of the factory buildings, where U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport aircraft of the 10th Air Force are seen lined up for maintenance. Heating fires burning in containers outside one plant entrance. Inside, workers move heavy machinery. A worker in a laboratory. Outside, several U.S. Lockheed B-25 Mitchell bombers are seen in various states of repair, with Hindustan Aircraft workers working on and around them. A C-47 aircraft is seen nose into a hangar. Its empennage is mostly removed. However its tail number (41-7759) is visible on the still intact vertical stabilizer. Workers are seen on scaffolding set up around a Consolidated PBY Catalina amphibian aircraft. The final scene shows several B-24 Liberator bombers in various stages of repair, parked on an outdoor ramp.
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