A film titled "R.A.F. Mastery Holds Up German Onrush." At beginning, the film shows a rugged air field filled with British Royal Air Force fighter and interceptor aircraft, during World War 2. A fuel truck is seen and Narrator states the aircraft are refueled quickly when they return from missions. Among the aircraft seen are two-place Boulton Paul Defiant interceptors, and single-place fighter aircraft. Closeup of gun camera, used in wings of Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire aircraft, being removed from a plane while it is being serviced. Ground crewman displays the camera and then installs it into the wing of an aircraft. Next, Hurricane and Spitfire aircraft are seen taking off from the air field. Closeup aerial view of a Spitfire aircraft aloft among clouds. A flight of three German Heinkel 111 bombers (He 111) is seen in formation. The spitfire aircraft pursues them. Gun camera film appears to show the RAF fighter firing at a Heinkel bomber. But suddenly it shows gun camera from RAF fighter firing at a German Junkers 87 (Ju 87) Stuka dive bomber. Motion of the film is stopped momentarily as the German plane is struck and burning. Then it resumes and the RAF fighter pulls up and away. More gun camera images shows German bombers being struck by gun fire. Gun camera film pauses to show German aircrew bailing out of the stricken bomber. Another gun camera image shows pieces of a German bomber being blown off the plane by RAF gunfire. Next, British gun camera shows firing at a German Dornier 17 bomber (Do 17), which gets hit in the left wing and rolls over with its left wing on fire. Another German plane (possibly a Junkers 88 (Ju 88), with its landing gear extended) being shot to pieces. Scene shifts to ground where burning wreckage of destroyed German planes is seen, as RAF fighters land in the background. RAF fighter pilot climbs out of his aircraft cockpit. Next, a group of returning British pilots walks toward the camera. Their parked aircraft are in the background.
Grumman TBF Avenger Torpedo bombers are seen taxiing at Henderson Field in Guadalcanal Island during World War II. TBF Avenger bombers take off. Several F4U Corsair fighter aircraft in line at the air base. Planes in formation over field.
American comedian Bob Hope for performances in United Service Organization (USO) shows in Vietnam. CH-47 Chinook helicopter land as directed. Members of Les Brown's Band Jack Jones and other troupe entertainers debark. Colonel Robert A. Ackerly Commander 3rd TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing) greets English comedian Bob Hope and Joey Heatherton getting into a car. Bob Hope talks to Captain Leonard Wilson 450 3rd TFS (Tactical Fighter squadron) beside F-5A fighter aircraft.
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Prime Minister Hussein Ala at Sa’adabad Palace (Tehran Province, Tehran, District 1, Taheri St, RC8F+FJ7, Iran), in northern Tehran, Iran. Large garden by Palace and Alborz mountains in background. The Shah of Iran seats himself in a chair, at a desk. The Prime Minister sits and converses with him. Shah of Iran reads several official documents and annotates one. A paper on the desk is labeled: "US News Report."
Piloted by the tug boat 'Thomas F. Timmins' the first German cargo submarine 'Deutschland', a blockade buster of the Entente Powers naval blockade, arrives in Baltimore Harbor. An animated map shows the movement of the submarine from Germany. Captain of the German submarine 'Deutschland', Paul König, with other men (Konig's name is listed in the slate as Koenig). German sailors on the submarine as it is escorted in port by the tug Timmins. Last part of clip switches to the Atlantic waters off of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the latest United States Navy submarine, the USS M-1 (SS-47) is seen during its test trials. It was the world's first doubled-hulled submarine.
United States Air Force Falcon missile guided by a radar to its target in a test. The supersonic air-to-air missile fired from F-102 Delta Dagger interceptor aircraft. The missile fired in a demonstration of automatic electronic destruction.
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