Film opens with camera panning across Kindley Field, Bermuda, where WB-50 and WB-29 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) are parked. Cluster of buildings and checkered tanks are seen behind them. Scene shifts to crew of a WB-29, in flight gear, including back pack parachutes, posing in front of their aircraft. The Aircraft Commander checks their chutes and they board the aircraft.
WB-29 aircraft of the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) flying in and out of cumulus storm clouds. Radio operator at his position keying an outbound message. A dropsonde operator working. He opens an airlock cover and then places the dropsonde into it and secures it. The airlock cover is then closed. The operator looks down through a window in the airlock.
Weather airplanes in Bermuda. Kindley Air Force Base. United States Air Force officers looking at a weather map. Pilots briefing crew. United States Air Force WB-50D Superfortress aircraft taking off. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls of the aircraft. They locate the eye of a hurricane. Flight crew works at weather recording and communication equipment inside the aircraft. A USAF officer recording wind velocity readings on a weather map. The WB-50D in flight.
United States Army 7th Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber flies over Arakabesan, Palau in Pacific theater during World War II. Aerial view of Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft in flight as seen from another aircraft. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers flying in formation. Aerial view of Japanese held Arakabesan, Palau during bombing mission.
Close up aerial views of United States Army 7th Air Force Consolidated B-24J Liberator bomber aircraft with nose art showing a standing woman and painted name “Hay Maker” (Serial Number 44-40729) as it flies over Arakabesan, Palau in World War II. A squadron of bombers in flight. Aircraft flying over an airfield and roads in Palau. Shadows of bombers as seen on the ground.
C-47 Skytrain aircraft in flight over water en route from Angaur to Leyte, Philippines. Aerial view of airstrips, ships offshore. Number of C-47 Skytrain fly in formation. (World War II period)
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