Hawaiian war production workers work on aircraft B-24 Liberator's engine at Hawaiian Air Depot in Hawaii during World War 2. Hawaiian men work on aircraft's engine part. Man lifts an engine part from shelf. Workers examine and assemble the engine.
Hawaiian war production workers, both men and women, work on aircraft B-24 Liberator's engine at Hawaiian Air Depot in Hawaii during World War 2. Two civilians work on aircraft engine. Hawaiian woman looks at sealed engine wrapped with cellophane sheet.
U.S. Army Air Force 340th bomb group bombs over road near Catanzaro, Italy. Close-up aerial view of American B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft with nose art name "Rum Dum". Bomber group hits bombs over target area. Aerial view of bomb explosions over road near Catanzaro. Smoke rises over target (World War II period).
Events in 2nd Sino-Japanese War covering late 1930's through 1943 in World War 2 Scene opens with two Chinese army buglers sounding a call. Next, a line of recruits is seen marching on a field. Chinese officers sit at a table with civilian officials. A Huge crowd of army volunteers are seated, each holding a small white flag. Two more buglers sounding a call. Crowd of recruits move through a gate. Northern Chinese soldiers in fur hats march. Recruits are shown from the East and West of China. Recruits in formation. Bugler sounding a call. Chinese cavalrymen joining the army. More scenes of Chinese people joining together to fight the Japanese. Newly recruit Chinese solders engaged in close order drill and physical training exercises. Uniformed soldiers in helmets, performing synchronized calisthenics and physical combat drills with rifles. Platoons of Chinese soldiers practicing marching and tactical maneuvers. Chinese youth training as first aid workers, carrying stretchers and learning first aid techniques. Chinese women in uniform marching with rifles. A Chinese girl kneels down behind a Maxim machine gun, as an officer instructs and other girls sit around in a group. Glimpse of girls training with rifles on an outdoor firing range. Claire Lee Chennault and his American "Flying Tigers" pilots and P-40 airplanes at an airfield. The American flag flying from a flagpole behind them. Pilots scrambling to their aircraft. Chenneult, now a U.S.A.A.F Major General, commander of 14th Air Force in China, in seen congratulating Chinese army aviators. He is accompanied by a Chinese Air Force General. Behind them is parked a B-24 Liberator bomber of the 308th Bombardment Group. A Chinese Nationalist P-40 with tiger teeth logo on air intake, starts its engine and taxis out for takeoff. View from cockpit of a P-40 pursuing and shooting down a Japanese Nakajima Ki-27 aircraft. Chinese soldiers in precision drills at a garrison.
Major General B.R. McCaffry, 24th Infantry Division U.S. Army, stands in the desert of Kuwait and is interviewed . U.S. Army tanks in the desert during Operation Desert Storm. A U.S. soldier fires a hand-held rocket-launcher from top of a tank. Destroyed Iraqi enemy tanks in the desert.
Film begins showing steel framework for a new war plant under construction during World War 2. Next, workers are seen painting aircraft parts at the Vultee aircraft plant in Downey California. A crane at the plant moves an aircraft tail section to mate with the forward fuselage of an airplane. Cranes move wing segments through the plant. Workers, including a woman, lower a radial engine into place at the front of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. A line of such aircraft is seen behind the one the camera is focused on. Scene shifts to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California, where bodies of Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra passenger planes are seen covering the factory floor. A glimpse of Lockheed B-24 Liberator bombers in an assembly line next to men working engines of a partially assembled Electra 14 aircraft. Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter planes being assembled at another part of the plant. A P-38 taxis past a line of parked Lockheed Hudson light bombers and takes off on a test flight. View from below of gleaming aluminum P-38 climbing out. Aerial view from above of P-38 flying over land near some mountains.
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