Tail section of aircraft C-124. Small D4 tractor can also be seen hauling a sled of supplies to the C-124. Man walks across in the foreground. Tucker snow cat being hoisted into C-124. Stern view of D4 tractor backing up to snow sled loaded with supplies, pushing it under the fuselage of C-124 for air drop at South Pole. Group of men under C-124 handles cargo on sled. VX-6 aircraft parked along the runway. Two men stand on sled hooking up slings to cargo. Cargo chutes lifted into C-124. D4 tractor in the background.
U.S. Mobile Riverine Force (9th Infantry Division) in Vietnam. United States helicopter UH-1D Iroquois lands on the flight deck of an ATC (Armored Troop Carrier) at a shore. The Boston Whaler canal boat loaded with soldiers approaches the ATC. The soldiers get off the Boston Whaler boat onto the ATC. The soldiers board the UH-1D Iroquois helicopter. The canal boat leaves. UH-1D Iroquois helicopter takes off. (Vietnam War period).
Activities in Florennes, Belgium in the European Theater Of Operations (ETO) late in World War 2. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft P-38 Lightning in flight. Fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. Fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. P-38 Lightning taxiing on perimeter at Florennes, Belgium. P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. P-47D Thunderbolt with bubble canopy warming up and taxiing. P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. P-47D Thunderbolt and P-47 Thunderbolt taxiing. P-47D Thunderbolt in flight.
Activities of Lieutenant Colonel Preston S. Flanagan of U.S. 31st TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing) who flies the same C-47 Skytrain aircraft from Tuy Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War that he had flown during World War II in Africa and Asia. The C-47D Skytrain transport plane parked in a revetment at the air base. Lieutenant Colonel Preston makes a preflight inspection. He inspects the wings of the aircraft and walks towards the tail section and checks the elevators and the rudder at the back of the aircraft. The C-47D tail section with number 0-49572. The Lt. Col. boards the aircraft. The C-47D taxis on a runway for a take off as seen from the cockpit.
Sequence taken from the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, CA-35 at Majuro Atoll, Mashall Islands, during World War 2. Time 00:05 to 00:11 starboard view of an Essex class aircraft carrier with the battleship USS Iowa, BB-61 on the horizon. Time 00:12 to 00:14 starboard view of an Independence class light aircraft carrier. Time 00:31 to 00:50 stern view of the battleship USS New Jersey, BB-62, in all blue measure 21 camouflage. Time 00:51 to 00:55 port side view of the battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43, in measure 32/1d camouflage, with a Cleveland class light cruiser in the background off the stern. Time 00:56 to 00:57 Left to right, Essex class aircraft carrier; battleship USS Colorado, BB-45, in measure 32/16d camouflage; battleship USS Pennsylvania, BB-38, tied up next to a cargo ship; Essex class aircraft carrier. Time 00:58 to 01:04 another port side view of the battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43, in measure 32/1d camoflage. Time 01:06 to 01:11 port side view of the light cruiser USS Santa Fe, CL-60. Time 01:15 to 01:17 stern view of the light cruiser USS Mobile, CL-63. Time 01:18 to 01:51 now tied up next to the cargo ship already replenishing ammunition of the battleship USS Pennsylvania, tied up on the other side.
Several P-51s parked on marsden matting pierced steel ramp at Ramitelli Airfield, Termoli, Italy, during World War 2. Several African American pilots of the U.S. Army Air Forces 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen), climb out of their P-51s and gather with their Commanding Officer, Andrew D. Turner, in front of his airplane named: "Skipper's Darlin," to discuss their completed flight. The pilots are: Dempsey W. Morgan Jr.; Carrol S. Wood; Robert H. Nelson Jr.; Andrew D. Turner ; and Clarence D. Lester. Separate sequence shows P-51s, of the 100th Squadron, taxiing across the marsden matting surface of the airfield with crew chiefs sitting on their wings. (One is Captain Turner's "Skipper's Darlin.") Distinctive Red Tail seen on P-51 aircraft.
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