U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Provisional Wing at an annual training in San Francisco, California. U.S. Army Air Corps P-12s, LB-6s, B-2s and A-3s in flight as they pass in review during the training. Aircraft in formation flight over the Mather field in California. Aircraft come in for landing at the field. P-12 aircraft land on the field and taxi along.
Damage caused by Allied bombings in Italy during World War II. Aerial views of a rail road track. Rail road train at the track. Damaged buildings after the Allied bombings. A train on a rail road track. A damaged rail road bridge. Bomb crater on a rail road track.
A U.S. Navy training film titled ‘Major Caliber Guns & Turrets’ giving details about the 16 inch 50 caliber Mark 7 gun, United States. Drawings of various guns depict the gun turret of warship Monitor, two 15 inch guns in a ship, and 16 inch 50 caliber gun. Three 16 inch guns on BB-61 class battleship. Structure of gun being explained by an animation showing armored gun house, rotating structure below resting on a roller path. Circular turret foundation supporting the structure. Circular armored cylinder. Powder hoist and gun cradles of a gun house. Shelf plate, pan plate, power equipment for rotating gun located in a pan plate, electric deck used for training of gun, and projectile handling platforms. Projectile platforms which includes two concentric sections, shows projectile ring and fixed stowage. Pointers point to power handling room below projectile platforms. Structure of gun from top to bottom.
Training and motivational film for U.S. Army Air Force crews preparing for the bombing of the Ploesti (or Ploiesti) oil fields in Romania, (Operation Tidal Wave) of August 1943. Final part of a training film to brief U.S. Army Air Forces aircrews in preparation for their bombing raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in Romania during World War 2. Formation of bombers is seen flying toward oil derricks in the oil fields. Aerial views of the oil fields and refineries. Oil storage facilities. Closeup of oil workers at a drilling rig. German officers walking in snow, ostensibly seeking places to obtain oil to fuel their wartime operations. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and other Nazi officers examine a chart in Africa. German prisoners taken in North Africa. Large numbers of German prisoners walking across the desert. A flight of several German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes in formation. Italian Dictator, Benito Mussolini, walking with an entourage in an Italian colonial region of Africa. He climbs aboard an open rail car on a small gauge railway. Accompanied by others, the rail car is pushed along the track by Colonials in white garb. German Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, who commanded German forces attacking the Soviet Union in Operation Typhoon, is seen visiting a German base. Next, Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle has his hands on the fins of a bomb while posing with his flyers when underway in the Pacific, aboard the USS Hornet (CV-8) for their daring raid B-25 bombing raid on Tokyo, Japan. View of a B-25 taking off from the Hornet. An American B-17 flying fortress, bomber taking off for a daylight raid in Europe. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking on radio, saying "We believe the Nazis and fascists have asked for it. And they're going to get it." Oil storage tanks ablaze with heavy black smoke rising.
A film based on problems of getting U.S. supplies to China from Calcutta, India during World War II. U.S. trucks and jeeps parked at U.S. 28th Air Depot in Calcutta. Indian laborers unload supply crates from the trucks. The supply crates are transported to a dock. A barge at a dock in the Hooghly River. The laborers unload crates from a truck onto a rail road car. A train heads for Santahar. Native laborers unload supplies from the train in Santahar. Heavy trailers on flat rail road cars. The laborers carry gasoline drums on poles. They work around railroad tank cars. The laborers load boxcars with supplies.
A film based on getting U.S. supplies to China from Calcutta, India during World War II. An animated map highlights Calcutta in India, Santahar and Parbatipur in Bangladesh. A train loaded with U.S. jeeps and trucks. The trucks and a jeep driven onto flat railroad cars. A train moves on a track. U.S. troops board boats on the banks of the Brahamputra River and are ferried to Pandu. A barge loaded with railroad cars moves towards the ferry point of Pandu. An animated map connects Parbatipur with Dhubri, Pandu and Chabua. Chabua is ultimately connected to Kunming in China. U.S. troops sort and unload supplies at Chabua satellite field.
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