View from a tracking camera of a Navy F6F drone plane in flight. Other aircraft (unseen) flying above it at high altitude, leave twin contrails behind. Suddenly a Sparrow radar guided air-to-air missile appears from the right contrail and follows a curved path as it homes in on and then destroys the target drone. Pieces of the destroyed drone fall to the earth.
Sparrow III, American air to air missile hits an aircraft in United States. Sparrow III climbs up through the sky as it leaves a vapor trail behind. It strikes at a Drone aircraft and smoke rises. Aircraft drops. United States F6F Drone aircraft in flight as a Sparrow III missile hits it. Smoke rises and aircraft descends.
French troops cross canal in Indochina. French fliers in Grumman F8 F Bearcat and B-26 bombers strafe and bomb enemy positions. Explosions on ground. French soldiers fire from trenches. Wounded soldiers are treated. A French soldier searches and removes weapons from a dead comrade. Dead Vietnamese.
View of the U.S. Carrier USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) underway, during the Korean War, with a deck full of aircraft. Change of scene shows Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, Commander 7th Fleet, holding conference aboard a ship (possibly his flag ship, the Cruiser USS Rochester). His three star flag is displayed on bulkhead behind the three participants. Another change of scene to below decks of the aircraft carrier, USS Valley Forge (CV-45) where sailors prepare a 5th Carrier Group F9F for flight. They raise it up on an elevator to the flight deck. It is an aircraft of Squadron VF52 and displays CVG-5 tail code "S." A tow moves the aircraft into position on the flight deck. Crewman moves a bomb across the deck on a dolly. Sailors lift bombs up to flight deck. Remaining footage shows aircraft being armed with rockets, among other armaments.
U.S. Navy F9F Panther jet aircraft of Fighter Squadrons VF-51 and VF-52, parked with wings folded, on flight deck of the aircraft carrier, USS Valley Forge (CV-45), during Korean War. Some of the aircraft are being towed. All display the "S" tail codes of Carrier Group 5 (CVG-5). Pilots seated inside cockpits of the aircraft. One of the aircraft taxis and takes off from the flight deck. Two aircraft are catapulted from the ship.
A Grumman F4F, Wildcat, from the U.S. Navy Squadron, VF-5, lands on the flight deck of the USS Saratoga (CV-3) and runs off the end of the flight deck, crashing into a parked airplane and falling into the sea, during operations against the Japanese in the Pacific.
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