A training mission of the United States Air Force 305th Bombardment Wing on aircraft B-47 Stratojet at Brize Norton Air Force Base in Oxfordshire, England. The nose section of a B-47 Stratojet and the tail section of a KC-97 Stratotanker during an air to air refueling attempt with a telescopic boom method. The boom extends and injects into the nose section of the B-47 Stratojet. The B-47 Stratojet in flight. The B-47 Stratojet is refueled from the KC-97 Stratotanker. The tail section of the KC-97 refueling the B-47 Stratojet. The bottom portion and the rear section of the B-47 Stratojet in flight. The top of the head of a crew member in the aircraft.
A training mission of the United States Air Force 305th Bombardment Wing on aircraft B-47 Stratojet at Brize Norton Air Force Base in Oxfordshire, England. The crew members of a B-47 Stratojet stand in the shade of the fuselage of the plane. An airfield hangar building and a control tower in the background. Men wear Turkish type hats. Three men climb inside the plane. The ground crew chief replaces a ladder inside the plane and closes the hatch.
A training mission of the United States Air Force 305th Bombardment Wing on aircraft B-47 Stratojet at Brize Norton Air Force Base in Oxfordshire, England. A B-47 Stratojet takes off. Smoke trails come out of the plane. Trees in the background.
A training mission of the United States Air Force 305th Bombardment Wing on aircraft B-47 Stratojet at Brize Norton Air Force Base in Oxfordshire, England. A ground crewman removes a wheel chock from the front of the landing gear. A B-47 Stratojet takes off. Trees and mountains in the immediate background. The B-47 Stratojet taxis down in front of three stationary B-47 Stratojets. The B-47 Stratojet is poised at the end of the runway for the take off. A sign on a hut type building reads '305th Bomb Wing Headquarters'. It is attached to a telephone line pole. A sergeant enters a quonset hut type building after puttting a sign on a wall.
Film begins showing steel framework for a new war plant under construction during World War 2. Next, workers are seen painting aircraft parts at the Vultee aircraft plant in Downey California. A crane at the plant moves an aircraft tail section to mate with the forward fuselage of an airplane. Cranes move wing segments through the plant. Workers, including a woman, lower a radial engine into place at the front of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. A line of such aircraft is seen behind the one the camera is focused on. Scene shifts to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California, where bodies of Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra passenger planes are seen covering the factory floor. A glimpse of Lockheed B-24 Liberator bombers in an assembly line next to men working engines of a partially assembled Electra 14 aircraft. Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter planes being assembled at another part of the plant. A P-38 taxis past a line of parked Lockheed Hudson light bombers and takes off on a test flight. View from below of gleaming aluminum P-38 climbing out. Aerial view from above of P-38 flying over land near some mountains.
Film 'Homes For Defense' on the construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States during World War 2. Houses constructed for soldiers and war production workers through the Federal Defense Housing Program. Houses for the people who construct planes, ships and guns for the protection of America. View of run down tenements and slum housing in a city or town. A car parked outside a house. Children stand near a fence outside the house. A map shows industrial centers. Men move to various industrial centers. Newport News: workers work on machinery for the Battle of Atlantic. Hartford: workers work on machine guns. Detroit: workers in an auto industry. Rock Island: workers in industry make coastal field artillery. Rolla Waynesville: army men at a training center. Corpus Christi: Army men at a new airfield to accommodate the expanding air force. Aircraft in flight. San Diego: workers construct planes in a factory. Signs of the various housing agencies that are doing a special job under the coordinated program.
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