U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at St. Louis, Missouri. It was test flight #155557 MAC 2833. The F-4J aircraft taxis for take off, lifts off and climbs steeply. Pilot and co-pilot eject. (Both survived: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.) Plane moves flatly through air in vertical position. It loses all speed. Aircraft falls flatly, impacts runway and explodes into a huge fireball. Black smoke billows up from impact area. Plane continues to burn. F-4J ablaze. Crash crew makes way to fire. Ambulance on ground. Pilot Pilcher and Radar Observer Begay meet-up together with other personnel on the airfield and observe the blazing aircraft from which they had ejected. They walk around a military station wagon. The two crew members examine ejection seat on runway. Ejection seat resting on runway. Two pilots get into a station wagon with other civilian personnel. Collapsed chute laying on grass. View of ejection seat. Blown canopy, other debris lying about runway in the background. F-4J still ablaze. Fire engine enters and moves down a runway. Firemen wade knee-deep through foam while fighting fire. Heavy smoke rises from wreckage. Crashed F-4J, heavy foam in the foreground. Fireman direct more foam into opening of F-4J while smoke is pouring out.
Airborne action in Korea during the Korean War. During Operation Tomahawk paratroopers of U.S. Army 187th Airborne prepare and board aircraft in Japan. U.S. Air Force aircraft on the ground. The aircraft in flight. They drop parachutes over Munsan-Ni in Korea. A view of Munsan-Ni area. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur arrives for his visit to the front.
An air aid to Indochina during the Indochina War. A U.S. carrier anchored. U.S. aircraft aboard the carrier. The aircraft are lowered onto a pier. Navy fighter and bomber aircraft are towed by trucks on roads to bomb and strafe Red ( Communist ) positions.
A map of cities in Western France. German soldiers load munitions into camouflaged trucks and advance near Caen, after the Normandy invasion, France. Soldiers lift munitions. Camouflaged German munitions convoy moves. Aircraft in flight. German anti-aircraft guns fired at Allied planes over Caen. Bombarding and firing on the battlefield at dusk. Allied aircraft in the air. Heavy flak in the sky. Smoke and explosions from the bombing of Caen area by allied aircraft. German vehicles proceed onward under cover of darkness, passing some fires burning. (World War II period).
The L-4 aircraft takes off from a narrow muddy airstrip in Italy. The plane in flight. Another airplane parked on the air strip. Mountains in the foreground. The plane drops propaganda leaflets for the U.S. Army.
Italian girls work at a factory in Italy. They pack the Allied propaganda leaflets for distribution by artillery and aircraft in air drops. They wrap the leaflets and place them in shells. Bundles of wrapped leaflets on table.
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