Various United States fighter and bomber aircraft at an airfield in Belgium. [Slate states airfield # 78, which would be Florennes/Juzaine Airfield, Belgium. But it may actually be Le Culot Airfield (A-89) where P-47s of the 36th and 373rd Fighter Groups were based.] A large number of P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes parked on a flight line. A B-17G Flying Fortress bomber parked in background. P-47s with bubble canopies taxi in single file from the flight line along a curved taxi strip.
A convoy of transport and battle ships underway in Pacific Theater to bombard Tarawa Island. A SOC seagull plane on catapult in the foreground. United States Navy Tennessee underway with American flag and signal flags hoisted onto it. A man on board the ship looks seawards through the binoculars. United States Navy ship Colorado underway in the sea. (World War II period).
Equipment on deck of APA (transport ship) United States marine walk between small craft on the deck of a ship while on their way to invade Tarawa in Pacific Theater. APA ship sends blinker message as the sky is overcast. Several transport ships underway in the sea. United States Navy Arthur Middleton, a transport ship. Marines clean mortar on board a transport ship using ramrods.
Albrook Air Force base of United States in Panama. A United States airman with tattoos on his arms and chest comes, doctor inoculates him and he leaves. Another airman walks over to the doctor. Needle jabbed into airman's arm after wiped with alcohol. Airman winces as doctor inoculates him.
United States Army engineers construct Camp Century in Greenland. Diesel tankers pulled by tractor trailers cross ice covered fields to Camp Century in Greenland. Tractors enter maintenance shop at the camp. At the maintenance shop men work on vehicles. The United States Marine Fiddler ship arrives at a port with supplies. A vapor container for the nuclear reactor placed on a tractor to be transported to the camp. Other supplies transported to the camp area. A flat bottomed sled carries vapor container, Colonel checks the loadings. At the camp men work on steel arches, unload supplies and reassemble them. Shipment boxes opened, a tractor moves into a tunnel. Vapor container moves in a steel beamed building as a tractor tows it from the front and the back.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Allied Naval vessels fire at coast of France on D-Day. United States B-25 flies low over water, B-26 aircraft in flight. Bombs dropped descend towards target area and strikes. United States 101st Air Borne Division troops land from LST (Landing Ship Tanks) Troops wade through water as they advance towards beach. B-26 aircraft in formations drop bombs, bombs impact. Bombs dropped over rail road yards, bridges, highways, towns and villages.
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