Gun camera footage of U.S. Army Air Force 19th Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group Aircraft commanded by a Lieutenant Hill, strafing target buildings and ships in area of harbor at Tarumizu in Kyushu Japan. Fire and explosions on bay area of the Island. Heavy smoke rises. Aircraft strafes over open field areas and factories, and then strikes ships in harbor. (World War II period).
U.S. B-29s of the 314th Bomb Wing parked and taxiing at North Field, Guam, Marianas Islands during World War 2. Among those seen are two displaying tail code, Square M, of the 19th Bomb Group; one without tail code, displaying tail number: 42-93967, of the 19th Bomb Group ("City of Lansford"); and five displaying Square P tail code, of the 39th Bomb Group. One of the parked B-29s displays tail code Square K and, on its forward fuselage, what looks like the logo of the "City of San Francisco" (K-29) of the 330th Bomb Group.
Aerial views of a sprawling U.S. Army Air Forces base in the Pacific Theater in World War 2. Various air strips and buildings. View of warships in the adjacent harbor. Vehicles drive on various roads on the ground. A B-25 Mitchell bomber with gear down on final approach to the airfield. Aerial views of the island and base.
Activity in European Theater of Operations during World War 2. Animated map shows Tromso, Norway. Views of British Royal Air Force attempts to sink the German Kriegsmarine battleship Tirpitz in October 1944. Shows extensive smoke cover that hides the battleship Tirpitz, preventing attack. A second attempt failed on 29 October, 1944, as smokescreen and weather clouds prevented clear bombing. During that attempt, the Tirpitz is seen firing her 15 inch guns at incoming British aircraft, while she is moored off Hakoya Island outside Tromso. She was damaged by one bomb during that attack. Later, on November 12, 1944, aerial views show British aircraft of No. 617 Squadron ("Dambusters") and No. 9 Squadron RAF bombing the Tirpitz, having caught her by surprise and without smoke screen. German Battleship Tirpitz bombed by multiple 6-ton "earthquake" bombs (or seismic bombs) dropped by British Lancaster bombers. The Tirpitz is seen as it rolls over before sinking at Tromso, Norway.
Colonel Bernt Balchen prepares to attempt rescue of the survivors of the SS Viking vessel. The vessel was rocked by explosion about eight miles off the Horse Islands. It caught fire during shooting of film The Viking. Balchen is seen consulting with two other men beside his parked Sikorsky S-38 sesquiplane amphibious aircraft named "Colonial." Colonel Balchen climbs into the flying boat, starts the twin engines, taxis, and takes off on the mission from Boston.
Blue shirt, flight deck crewmen seen under an A-4E. Pilot looking into cockpit of another A-4E.Plane captain (brown shirt) and an armorer (red shirt) under the plane. Catapult and arresting gear crew (green shirts) set up a catapult. Island of the carrier (Coral Sea,CVA-43) in background. Red shirt armorers crawling over an aircraft. Squadron maintenance (green shirts) work on nose radar of an F-4B. Pilot seen earlier, climbs into cockpit of his A-4E. Tractor backs A-3B down over deck. It is parked on side of a E-2A .
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