Aerial views of Two U.S. Army Air Force P-51D Mustang aircraft (viewed separately) from the 78th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group, 7th Air Force, stationed at Iwo Jima, during World War 2. They are in flight over the Pacific. The unit logo of a bushmaster snake is visible on the fuselage of the first one (buzz number 124). Later scenes show developed cumulus clouds rising to high altitudes.
View of a B-29 fuselage painted with cartoon bird and lettering: 'The B.A.Bird' written beside it. [This aircraft, Serial number 42-93896, and Tail Code "Circle X, (unseen) belongs to the 1st Squadron, 9th Bomb Group, 313th Bomb Wing stationed on North Field, Tinian. Its aircraft commander is Captain Wendell W. Hutchison, and one of its Crew Chiefs is Sergeant Chester Ziel.] Next seen are B-29s on Saipan, in the Marianas Islands in World War 2 . Numerous United States B-29s parked on the field with plain "V" tail codes, indicating 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 499th Bombardment Group. A Group of B-29 Superfortress bombers in formation over the airbase. A B-29 lands on the runway.
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.
Many B-29 Superfortress bombers, of the 314th Bombardment Wing, taxi and take off from North Field Guam during World War 2. Most of them are from the 29th Bomb Group, and display the black square O tail code. (Aircraft numbers: 16;45;24;7 5; and 27, are seen.) One, displaying the black square K tail code and number 9, is from the 330th Bomb Group.
B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 314th Bombardment Wing, taxi on a North Field Guam in World War 2. Aircraft of the 29th Bomb Group, displaying Sq 'O' tail codes and from 39th Bomb Group, showing Sq 'P' are shown taxiing from hardstands.
View of German Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz. Complete change of scene shows a torpedo being loaded on a German Neger torpedo-carrying craft for a demonstration at Flender-Werke in Lübeck, Germany,during World War 2. Designed by Richard Mohr (whose surname means blackamoor),this craft cannot submerge but runs low, awash in the water. It is seen moving that way in the water and firing its torpedo. Back at the base, the operator, wearing an iron cross, climbs out of the craft. (Note: Not surprisingly, this little torpedo-carrier was sometimes called a human torpedo.)
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