31st anniversary celebration of a Wright aircraft at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Several men push an early Wright aircraft. Mr. Orville Wright stands and smiles. Several men pull a rope which lifts a weight in a tower in order to launch the Wright aircraft. The aircraft is in the background. Several men push the Wright aircraft and turn it around near a launch track. Two men turn the propellers on an early Wright Pusher. The launch of the Wright aircraft. The aircraft in flight low over the ground. A tug tows a Sikorsky S-42 flying boat on a road. Water on either side of the road. Hangars and buildings in the background. The S-42 takes off from water surface. The copilot of the camera aircraft. Seven P3Y Catalina in a step-down formation. A Boeing 247 in flight. 306 and 600 lb bombs drop from United States Army Air Corps B-3As and explode on the ground. Bomb-pitted earth. A civilian inspects a bomb crater.
After a mission aircraft return and land at an airfield in England during World War II. Ground crewmen wait for the return of the aircraft. The crewmen in groups talk. The aircraft fly over the airfield. Men in a tower look through binoculars. A United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress breaks from a formation and lands. A Red Cross ambulance races across a strip.
Activities of United States Army 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. Helicopter UH-1D of U.S. Army flies over rice paddies. Views of rice paddies. E/17 Trooper wades knee deep in mud of paddy. Other troopers of E Troop 17th. Cavalry follow. Soldiers of Company B, 3rd Platoon, search a suspected Vietcong farmhouse. Sergeant questions a woman. 5th January1966: Soldier walks with Vietcong suspect across a paddy. Two Vietcong suspects being questioned. Old man being interrogated. Sergeant searches in a brush near a tree. Vietcong suspects being questioned. They are blindfolded and their hands are tied. Prisoners being led away. Woman and children being led out of a farmhouse.
Bomber planes attack the Reds in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam during the First Indochina War. B-26 bombers and other flying boxcars in flight for attack. They fly for the antiaircraft fire on the Reds. The plane drops bombs on the target area. Smoke arises from bombarding.
Points of interest in Berlin, Germany. C-54 takes off from the runway of Tempelhof airport. Airplane in flight. Television antennas in the foreground. C-131B lands at the airport. DC-6 takes off.
Points of interest in Berlin, Germany. C-131B, C-47, British European Airways (BEA) and Vickers Viscount 701 at Tempelhof airport. DC-6 and C-54 in flight over apartments. Television antennas on the top of the apartments. Plane lands.
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