Bombing demonstration by U.S. Army Air Service DH4 aircraft under command of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The target is Battleship USS Alabama, in September, 1921 in the Chesapeake Bay, United States. Army flier is seen checking security of a bomb under wing of aircraft. USS Alabama underway in the Chesapeake Bay. Aerial views from United States Army Air Service planes in flight over the battleship. USS Alabama is hit by a bomb. Later it is hit by a phosphorus poison gas bomb. Finally it is hit by 2000 pound bombs. The USS Alabama rolls over halfway, in shallow waters.
A Grumman F4F, Wildcat, from the U.S. Navy Squadron, VF-5, lands on the flight deck of the USS Saratoga (CV-3) and runs off the end of the flight deck, crashing into a parked airplane and falling into the sea, during operations against the Japanese in the Pacific.
Leaflets loaded into an L-4 aircraft, Italy. Pilot in the cockpit of the plane. Men arrive near the plane with bundles of leaflets. They load them in the plane. The plane takes off from the narrow, muddy airstrip.
The L-4 aircraft takes off from a narrow muddy airstrip in Italy. The plane in flight. Another airplane parked on the air strip. Mountains in the foreground. The plane drops propaganda leaflets for the U.S. Army.
The 8th Fighter Command Operations, European Theater. 07-July-1944; 1st Lieutenant JW Goodwyn of 335th squadron 4th fighter group flies the aircraft. High altitude view of the target area. FW-190 in flight. Hits on aircraft. Aircraft carries bomb under center fuselage. Plane crashes. (World War II period).
Paveway I laser guided bomb carried by fighter bomber in Vietnam. Aerial view over wooded terrain of a U.S. Air Force F-4D Phantom jet, from Ubon Air Base in Thailand, descending and, while still at fairly high altitude, releasing a 2000 lb Mk 84 laser guided bomb against Viet Cong ground target.
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