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U.S. Army officials discuss a wall map in the office of General Henry Arnold in Washington D.C.

U.S. Army Air Forces officials in the Munitions Building in Washington D.C. Office of General Henry Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Colonel Trubee Davison, Colonel Thomas J. Hanley, Colonel Karl L. Naiden, Lieutenant General Arnold, Brigadier General Carl Spaatz, and Brigadier General Martin F. Scanlon discuss a wall map and a globe. General Arnold points at places on the map and talks to the other military officers. Spaatz, Davison and Scanlon looks at the globe.

Date: 1942, January
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051702
Allied forces hold air superiority in battle of Saint Mihiel during World War I.

This film shows numerous types and models of World War One aircraft in operation. It opens showing Allied airplanes preparing for a maximum air campaign in the battle of Saint Mihiel. View from inside a hanger as its flap opens and men push a Sopwith Camel airplane out onto airfield. Map of St Mihiel. American planes warm up on flight line in predawn, with flares burning at wingtips. Huge numbers of allied airplanes are marshaled on airfields throughout the theater of operations and begin taking off. Among them is a French Morane-Saulnier low wing monoplane. German fliers are seen loading small hand held bombs into the cockpit of their Albatross aircraft. Soldiers in combat on ground in "no man's land" during the battle of St. Mihiel. They take refuge in large shell and bomb craters and try to advance running between them.. Germans fliers dropping bombs, by hand, from airplane. Numerous Allied and German airplanes in aerial dogfights. American planes over clouds. American Observation balloon attacked in sky. Balloon in flames, and trailing black smoke as it falls to the ground. French flag flies at an airfield, where a nosed-over airplane sits, by a hangar, as airplanes fly overhead. Aircraft taxiing about in close quarters at airfield. Large formations of American airplanes flying overhead in a grand formation, following the Armistice, November 11, 1918 Then the film shifts dramatically from World War One to the post-WWII year of 1947. It illustrates the dramatic advances in warplanes since WWI by showing U.S. B-36 bombers and straight-wing F-84 Thunderjet fighters is formation.

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051727
Dedication of Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio, in 1928.

In 1926, Frederick Patterson, in cab of a Steam shovel, breaks ground for the construction of Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Horses pull wagons past the steam shovel. Dedication of Wright Field at Dayton in 1928. Flag raising ceremony shows Mr Orville Wright pulling the rope which raises the flag upon the pole. In addition to Orville Wright, the event was attended by Secretary of War, Davis; Judge (and Baseball Commissioner) Kenesaw Landis; Assistant Secretary, F. Trubee Davison; Air Corps Chief General Patrick, and others. Artillery salute is fired at the ceremony. Squdrons of airplanes fly overhead.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051733
Harry S Truman takes Oath of Office.

American flag at half mast. Under a portrait of former President Woodrow Wilson in the Cabinet Room at the White House, Bess Truman looks on as Harry S Truman takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Harlan F Stone.

Date: 1945, April 12
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051806
Gun camera view shows Vietcong targets hit during air attack.

306th Tactical Air Squadron Air Strikes over Vietnam. Aerial views from American F-100 airplane in flight over Vietnam. Gun camera view shows Vietcong targets on ground. Targets burn due to attacks by planes ahead. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1967, September 3
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051871
Gun camera view shows the plane strafing targets on ground and targets explode.

308th Tactical Air Squadron Air Strikes over Vietnam. Aircraft F-100 in flight over field in Vietnam. Gun camera view shows the plane strafing targets on ground and targets explode.

Date: 1967, August 29
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051873