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Pilots arrive at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam.

614th Tactical Fighter Squadron arrives at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam. F-100's in flight. Crew personnel wait for F-100's landing. F-100 taxis. Crew personnel directs to F-100. Pilots welcomed by crew personnel. Pilots and crew personnel talk. Crew personnel pull luggage out from F-100.

Date: 1966, September 16
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024793
U.S. Navy pilots in advanced training on their specialized aircrafts and getting their wings in the United States.

Naval aviator in training seen flying a F9 Cougar aircraft and practicing air to air gunnery and bombing and low level navigation. Aircraft landing on USS Lexington (CV-16) in Gulf of Mexico near Corpus Christi, Texas. Pilot Point of view (POV) shot from inside cockpit of aircraft as it descends approaching aircraft carrier deck for landing. Pilot performs arrested landing on deck of aircraft carrier. Two Grumman F-11 Tiger jet aircraft taking off from a ground runway, in tandem. Aerial views of formation of F-11 Tiger aircraft as they perform aerial rendezvous operations and fly in formation and in hunter-killer formation. Two F-11 aircraft perform strafing operations and aerial tactics and high altitude radar intercepts. View of pilot in cockpit of US Navy S-2 Tracker anti-submarine aircraft, and then aerial view of S-2 Tracker aircraft in flight over water. Pilots training in helicopters. A pilot flying a Bell H-13 Sioux helicopter at Ellyson Field near Pensacola. Close-up view of pilot and instructor inside Bell H-13 helicopter in flight. View of H-34 Seahorse helicopter in flight and landing. Pilots get their wings pinned on during ceremony. African American naval aviator has his wings pinned on him by his wife. Senior captain representing chief of naval air advance training pins wings on pilot's uniform in a ceremony. View of P-3 Orion aircraft parked on airfield and pilot walking away from aircraft. View of P-3 Orion aircraft taking off directly overhead of viewer at end of runway. SH-2 Seasprite helicopter taking off and in flight out of Key West, Florida. F4B Phantoms. Navy pilots in briefing on an aircraft carrier learn about a training operation.

Date: 1967
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026271
U.S. Navy Task Force 58 defends against Japanese Kamikaze attacks and bombards Okinawa during Operation Iceberg

A glimpse of Navy gunners firing Bofors anti-aircraft guns from battle station on a U.S. aircraft carrier is how this film begins. Next, black flak clouds fill the sky and tracer rounds are seen in a nighttime battle as ships of U.S. Task Force 58 (TF-58) battles attacks from Japanese aircraft, including Kamikazes dispatched from Mainland Japan, during World War 2. View of Japanese attacking aircraft subject to relentless tracer bullet fire, until is is hit. It continues toward a target ship, but misses and crashes into the sea. A flaming Japanese aircraft moving overhead in daylight, amidst many black flak clouds. It crashes into the sea. Another nighttime scene shows numerous tracer rounds flashing through the darkness as hundreds of land--based Japanese warplanes attack ships of Task Force 58. Explosions are seen in the air as attacking planes are hit by anti-aircraft fire. View of a Japanese attacking aircraft diving from overcast skies, banking to its left and crashing into the water. Gun camera views from American aircraft shooting down a Japanese multi-engine bomber from the rear and one from another aircraft shooting a Japanese fighter head-on. It veers off in smoke as the American plane passes to its left. The Japanese plane crashes into the sea with a huge explosion and fireball. Another gun camera view of large Japanese aircraft being shot down from the rear. Scene shifts to column of 5 "old" U.S. battleships underway. Views of guns firing from newer battleships of the line. Glimpse of foreign correspondent Ernie Pyle aboard a warship. The battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) seen silhouetted against moonlit sky. (She was damaged by hit from Japanese aerial torpedo, off Okinawa on April 12th, 1945.) Views of fast battleships and other ships of TF 58,firing their naval guns. View on Okinawa as their shells explode, supporting advance by U.S. Army and Marine advancing forces. The U.S. troops running across fields as they advance. Burning buildings on Okinawa. US troops advancing through rice paddies. A soldier calling for close air support on a field radio. View of two Escort carriers providing air support. View air control officers aboard the Command ship, heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), as they order air strikes in support of the troops. F4F fighter planes carrying bombs take off from a carrier. Formations of U.S. aircraft in flight overhead. Their bombs exploding on Okinawa. frontal view of an F4F firing rockets. Wider views of F4Fs firing rockets.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072096
Documentary of United States Air Force capabilities

Documentary. Numerous U.S. Air Force aircraft in operation, including: F-100s; B-47s; B-52s; F-106s; and F-105s. U.S Air Force alert crews run from barracks in response to Klaxon horn signal. They board their aircraft in snow. An F-100 makes takeoff with rocket boost. F-100s fire rockets. Wide variety of rockets fired from USAF aircraft. A Saturn rocket launch.

Date: 1962
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043517
U.S. aircraft in flight over USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in the Caribbean.

USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) during Operation Springboard in the Caribbean. A U.S. Grumman S2F tracker aircraft dives and fires a rocket. The target is towed by USS Valley Forge and hit is made by an S2F. U.S. Navy Douglas AD Skyraiders aircraft in a dive bearing a rocket. The S2F in flight and fires a rocket. The S2F drops a 500 lb unarmed rocket. An S2F squadron in formation. Douglas AD Skyraiders fly in a formation over the ship.

Date: 1956, February 21
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047024
Various U.S. Air Force missiles and intercepter aircraft of 1956

U.S. Airmen uncrate an AIM-4 Falcon heat-seeking guided air-to-air missile. Closeup as they remove it from its box. Next, an animated segment shows a fighter interceptor firing such a missile at a high flying bomber. it strikes and destroys the bomber. A Falcon missile on a test stand. It is launched for a short distance and then hits the ground. A brief animated segment illustrates an airborne missile being fired at another airplane, from a fighter aircraft. Glimpse of an Air Force aircraft dropping a parachute delayed bomb. A Convair F-102 Delta Dagger interceptor aircraft parked on a ramp. A MGM-1 Matador Cruise Missile being launched from a test stand. An F-102 interceptor aircraft taking off and in flight. It fires a missile straight ahead. Another F-102 firing a missile in flight, and a target drone tumbling to the ground and exploding. Airmen drive a forklift truck up to a parked F-102 aircraft, and remove a crate containing a Hughes AIM-4 Falcon missile. They remove it and place it in a firing test stand. A suspended net target in the desert is destroyed by a missile passing through it. Air Force mechanics work on an F-102 aircraft. A MGM-1 Matador Cruise Missile being fired. It travels some distance before breaking up. View of Matador Cruise Missile in flight. A drone target aircraft being struck by a missile in flight, and falling to earth.

Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037534