U.S. Navy film about aviation, entitled "Wings for the Fleet." Movie opens with view of an F-4 Phantom aircraft in flight. It displays Carrier Air Wing 15 tail code "NL,"and the number "2316" on its fuselage. Closeup of pilot in front seat of the F-4. "LT. J.G. D.H. Rogers is painted below the canopy. Change of scene to Navy warships on maneuvers. The USS King (DL-10/DLG-10/DDG-41) a Farragut Class (also known as Coontz Class) guided missile destroyer and and the Aircraft Carrier, USS Coral Sea (CVA 43) with deck full of F-4 Phantom aircraft. An F-4 aircraft is seen on combat air patrol overhead. A closeup shows it is the same aircraft shown earlier, piloted by Lt JG D.H. Rogers. The F-4 rolls over and dives. Scene shifts to combat control center aboard the aircraft carrier, where controllers convey target information to the F-4. View of pilot in cockpit and his missile targeting display. He is cleared to arm missile and fire. Interior of his cockpit as he engages the arm toggle switch. The F-4 fires a missile that is seen striking and destroying a drone target, which falls flaming into the sea. Back in the control room, a sailor wipes clean the plexiglass display he was using to track the action. View of F-4s landing on the USS Coral Sea, and view from cockpit of Lt JG D.H. Rogers' plane being guided into parking position on her flight deck. His plane Captain climbs aboard the wing and helps him remove items from the cockpit. Rogers stops to discuss something with the plane Captain and they walk together towards the Carrier Island.
Operations of the Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) Company. Aerial view of New York City's Manhattan Island, below. Camera focuses on Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station) seen from above, and then at street level. Travelers purchasing tickets for combined transcontinental rail and air travel at a window in the station. Families seeing travelers off at one of the railroad gates. Temporary sign at gate reads "The Airway Limited, second section." View of passengers on rear car of train as it pulls out. The car displays Pennsylvania Railroad logo sign reading "The Airway Limited, Pennsylvania Railroad." Views of Pennsylvania RR passenger train and closeup of locomotive wheels in motion. Animated relief map shows train proceeding from New York, past Columbus, Ohio, to Port Columbus station in Ohio. Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. billboard sign at the station shows picture of passengers connecting between a train and an airplane. Billboard reads: "Port Columbus, Eastern Transfer Point, Air-rail Service, Coast-to-Coast." Passengers leaving the train and entering the station waiting rooms. Their baggage being weighed (Narrator says 30 pounds is the allowance.) View from terminal roof, of a Ford 5-AT-B, trimotor passenger airplane ready to accept passengers for the next phase of their travel. A logo on fuselage has "TAT" with small ribbon through it reading, "Transcontinental Air Transport." View of passengers seated inside the aircraft. The plane taxis and takes off from the Port Columbus airport. Ground is snow-covered, but the runway is plowed. Closeup aerial view of the airplane flying over the city of Columbus, Ohio. Distant view of it flying close to the LeVeque Tower skyscraper (a 47-story Art Deco-style building at 50 West Broad Street). Aerial view of the airplane passing the train, continuing westward, from Port Columbus. Views inside passenger cabin of the plane. Animated map show plane heading to Indianapolis. Officer hands out TAT illustrated map and points out features to passengers. Closeup of map. Aerial view of the airplane on final approach to land at Indianapolis airport. Clerk at airport typing arrival message on teletype, and company executives reading it at their headquarters. Animated map show plane moving to St. Louis, Missouri. View from air of Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Passengers in cabin. aerial view of the plane on final approach, over snow, to St. Louis. The aircraft taxiing on ramp and parking at terminal building, where passengers enter, under cover of awning-covered walk. Closeup of the aircraft engines. Inserted view of TAT engine overhaul facility, with Charles Lindbergh, the airline's technical adviser, and TAT officials inspecting the operation.
Film titled 'We The Japanese People', about Japan and Japanese prisoners of war returning home. Sun rises. Water dashes against rocks at the Japanese coast. View of Mount Fuji. Japanese POW (Prisoners of War) aboard ship. They sit and stand on ships at the Pacific shore. They shout and wave to people on the shore. POW disembark and walk with their luggage. They sit on the train and wave from the windows. Crowd on a road in Ginza, Tokyo. People at crossroads. Scene from rural Japan. Snow on mountains and land. People cross a bridge over stream. Hut besides stream. Flowers bloom over Cherry trees. Small islands in the sea. Ship underway at sea. Light house beside the sea. Boats at shoreline. City in the background.
Japanese diplomats in the United States. Car and bus traffic of 1950s cars on street in Washington Dc with the United States Capitol building in the background. Elected Japanese representatives climb up stairs of the U.S. assembly. The U.S. Vice President Allen W Barkley and Secretary David Rice Atchison receives Japanese representatives and shake hands with them. They pose. Building of the United Nations (The temporary United Nations Headquarters building in Lake Success, Long Island, New York, in the Sperry Gyroscope Corp building.) Japanese representatives go in the building. Warren Austin, a U.S. delegate stands and shakes hands with the representatives. They sit in hall, wear headphones and listen to the translated discussions. Scene changes to Paris, with car traffic on street and Arc de Triomphe in background. Building of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization). Japanese representatives get in the building. Meeting in session. Representatives of Japan, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Japanese representative addresses and shakes hands with the UNESCO president and other members.
Italian Expeditionary Forces at Northern Africa Front. Soldiers of Italian Expedition Force comes out of fox holes. They run out from dugouts. Machine gun emplacement at battle field. Soldiers fire guns. They look through binocular. Trucks and bikes in field. Soldiers run in trenches. Soldiers run in field with machine guns and fire in prone position. Airborne troops land on isolated emergency airfield built by Britishers on the desert. Paratroopers destroy gasoline and munition dumps in field. Soldiers stand with covered artillery. Troops get in aircraft with guns. Italian Expeditionary Forces in Malta: Air raid over Malta. Pilots get on planes. Plane taxis and takes off. Airplane in flight. Pilots in cockpit. Air plane in flight over sea. Aerial view of Malta Island. (World War II period).
German bomber Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor bombs an Allied ship off island of Valletta, Malta. Ground crew ready the FW 200 German bomber. The pilot climbs up stairs to cockpit. Airmen fuel the bomber. Engines of bomber start. It taxis and takes off. German FW-200 Bomber in flight. View from inside cockpit of pilots in cockpit. Clouds visible from pilot cabin's screen. Pilot drinks hot beverage from insulated flask. Bomber in flight over sea. Pilot looks through binoculars. FW-200 Bomber releases bombs on an Allied ship. Smoke rises from burning ship. (World War II period).
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