Two flight deck crew racing down flight deck of USS Mindoro with handling lines. Flight deck personnel handling lines and nose of blimp as it lands on flight deck. Crew disembarking from nose of blimp cabin. Lines are cast off from blimp as blimp ascends into air. Crew coming out of the stern of the cabin as new crew boards it. Blimp ascends from flight deck.
Bomb loading activities on USS Makin Island. Men move bombs on truck. Men bombing up aircraft TBMs. TBMs taxi on flight deck for take off. (World War II period).
Men bring rockets up on elevator to flight deck and transport rockets on flight deck. Pilots emerge on flight deck to man their planes. FM aircrafts catapulted from flight deck.
Ships at anchor in island area. LCI underway. Tugs approach and ship is moored using hawsers.
American paratrooper training circa 1940. Paratroopers seen jumping from door of a C-47 (DC-3) transport aircraft in flight. Scene shifts to below, where parachutes of jumping troopers open instantly as they leave door of a C-47 overhead. View inside the cabin of a C-47, as jumpmaster looks out the open door. Paratroopers are seated inside the cabin. View from the doorway, of other C-47s and their paratroopers descending as they jump. View from ground of C-47 overhead with two "sticks" of paratroopers descending from it, and a chute carrying military equipment descending too. Parachutes approaching the ground.
American military aircraft training circa 1940. A Link Trainer in operation at an aviation training facility. Used for teaching pilots instrument flying, it is seen moving physically in response to the actuation of artificial flight control actions as the trainee responds to instrument indications inside the mockup cockpit. It bears the number 654, on its mock tail. The wings and tail are for decoration only. Scene shifts to formations of various aircraft in flight over a body of water. The aircraft appear to be U.S. Navy types, including: Grumman F4F Wildcat; Douglas TBD Devastator; and Grumman TBF Avenger. Another formation shows many North American training aircraft in flight over the water.
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