Role of Air Service Command in repairing and salvaging damaged airplanes and equipment in the European Theater during World War II. Air Service Command personnel, a jeep and damaged aircraft in an open field. The personnel inspect the damaged aircraft. They dig mud and make a ditch. A truck with a flat trailer pulls the aircraft out of the ditch. A DUKW drives down a water stream. It delivers tools and damaged section of the aircraft to an air service center. The service center personnel checks harnesses of parachutes in a parachute shop. Experts replace the damaged bearings of the propellers. A personnel hands over a generator to a sergeant. An ordnance personnel checks guns. The sergeant tests the points on the generator. Engine experts repair the gear of an engine. A welder welds heavy parts. A personnel gets off from a vehicle and enters into an air conditioned trailer shop. In this shop defective instruments of aircraft are put in a vacuum chamber. A repaired aircraft takes off. A ship burns and smoke rises. The damaged ship. A personnel types on a typing machine. Aircraft in the background. The Air Service Command personnel get into a boat. The boat underway along a ship. The personnel climb onto a ship. They see an island. They move towards the island as they get into a barge. They find damaged parts of aircraft on the island. They inspect fuselage, wings, guns and shells of the aircraft. Damaged aircraft and its parts are taken to the air service center.
Role of Air Service Command in repairing and salvaging damaged airplanes and equipment in the European Theater during World War II. An aircraft taxis on a grassy field. Natives in the foreground. Crates are carried by the natives. Chinese people construct an airfield. They carry buckets hanging on both sides of a pole. They use hand tools to break rocks. An aircraft taxis. The aircraft is hoisted by a crane. The aircraft takes off. Air service center personnel repair damaged aircraft. Ruins of damaged aircraft. Two men work at an equipment. Aircraft take off.
United States OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War II. In support of Italian anti-fascists and anti-Nazi Germany, U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop parachute supplies for Italian partisans on snow-covered fields.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate anti-fascist, partisan activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War 2. Operations Officer Albert Materazzi briefs the men of Operational Group (Cayuga Team) at OG (Operational Group) headquarters in Ciano, Italy. Cayuga Team members study the terrain in which they have to operate. Pilots who will fly in the Cayuga Team members are briefed. Cayuga Team members with their paratrooper packs board U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft. The C-47s taxi on an airfield. Aerial view of Italian terrain. Parachutists of Cayuga Team jump from C-47s in flight.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan, anti-fascist activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War 2. A U.S. radio operator receives a radio message at Operational Group headquarters after Cayuga Team (OSS Operational Group members) are parachuted in a drop zone. An officer takes a look at the message detailing requirement of equipment needed for the mission. The material is loaded in waiting U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain transport airplanes. The C-47s warm up before taking off. They taxi and take off from an airstrip. Formations of C-47s. Parachute supplies are dropped in drop zones in mountainous terrain.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. An SI agent washes a paper with 'Eagle atop Swastika' Nazi symbol of Hitler's Third Reich in Germany. The officer pours a solution and places the paper in a surgical tray. He fixes the paper on a cardboard and further examines it.
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