U.S. Army Air Force Officers setting up a portable film laboratory besides aircraft C-45A. Aircraft B-26 dropping prints by parachute. Prints are developed in the mobile laboratory and then taken to Commanding Officer by jeep.
Shows aircraft Curtiss CW-20B ready to take off. Crowd watching. Curtiss BW-20B taxiing out and taking off. Aircraft in flight.
Views of aircraft B-17Ds on flight line after arrival from U.S. for inspection. Airmen inspecting B-17Ds. Many views of B-17Ds parked on airfield.
Views of conveyor system in use at Bell Aircraft Plant, Niagara Falls. War production workers inspecting and working with aircraft moving on belt. Bell P-39 Airacobra taking off. Views of Bell P-39 Airacobra in flight. (World War 2 era war production effort.)
Men near gas cylinders to inflate barrage balloon. Views of men inflating balloons and raising it using winch. Narrator talking of every major U.S. city soon having such protection (early in World War 2)
Early in World War II period, United States 1st Army anti-tank and anti-aircraft batteries advancing in fields on practice training drills. Motorcycles, combat cars, and cavalry advancing. Armored cars and motorcycles riding fast through streets of a small town. Assault boats crossing river. Pontoon bridge across river and simulated dive bombing can be seen.
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