Donald Douglas, Edsel Ford and Charles E. Sorensan examining aircraft A-20A in Santa Monica plant. They inspect the nose section of the aircraft and look at a plane taxiing out
United States Army Air Corps mechanics working on B-14 aircraft and changing engine. Aircraft is towed out of hangar. Pilot climbing in cockpit and aircraft taxiing. B-14 flying in sky.
Shows U.S. Army parachutists training on scaffold at Fort Benning in Georgia. Parachutists practice hanging and landing techniques while the high rank officers watch them. Parachutists boarding aircraft C-47. Aircraft taking off and practice jumps. Parachutists jumping, one after the other.
Workers entering Douglas Aircraft factory in Santa Monica, California, early during World War II. Workers assembling aircraft in the factory and women workers working on wings of aircraft. Men and women war production workers building bomber aircraft for Britain and the United States war effort.
Barrage balloons are inflated by men. Men near gas cylinders. Balloons are sent aloft at Fort Lewis.
Shows 501st Parachute Battalion, boarding C-47 aircraft and jumping at Fort Benning in Georgia during World War II. Views of German parachutists descending on Norway from Junkers 52 aircraft. Aircraft C-47s taking off and dropping heavy equipment parachutists as Curtiss A-12S lay smoke trails below. Troops advancing through smoke in fields.
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