View from aircraft-mounted camera. Aircraft approaches airfield where multiple enemy German aircraft lie. The aircraft strafes one of the planes on the ground. Scene changes to second pass over the field, where the previous target aircraft is seen destroyed and smoking. Aircraft fires on a second and third aircraft. Third pass over an industrial building, a second USAAF aircraft flies ahead, also firing at the building. Damaged buildings in the background. Additional passes are made to strafe enemy German bomber aircraft parked on the ground. Taken from aircraft of First Lieutenant H. F. Grenning, 434th Squadron, 479th Fighter Group, VIII Fighter Command, during WW2 in Europe.
Artistic rendition: Diagram shows United States Destroyer Division 46 firing torpedoes at the Japanese enemy ships. Explosions as the enemy positions are hit. Task Force Division 46 and Division 45 ships advance towards the enemy target. The radar show friendly planes in range. Note shows results of the battle. (World War II period).
Helicopter lands on ground at Quonset Point in United States. President Eisenhower and his wife disembark the helicopter along with naval aide and other officers. Eisenhower removes his hat and is greeted by a naval officer. Eisenhower and party walk towards the Presidential plane Columbine. They walk up the ramp of the plane. The doorway is closed and the ramp is pushed away. Columbine in the parking area prepares for the take off. Crew pulls cable from the aircraft. Three naval Officers stand by. Navy plane director guides the plane. Columbine taxies for take off.
Bombing of Rekata bay (near Munda and Guadalcanal in the South Pacific) during August 24th 1943. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers of the 13th Army Air Forces in flight at a high altitude over the bay. Bombers drop bombs on Japanese targets at Rekata bay. (World War II period).
Shows United States Army Air Force cadets in formation and getting commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the USAAF at Mitchel Field, shortly before entry of the United States into World War 2.
Royal Canadian Air Force cadets arriving and in formation at Mitchel Field. Cadets examining P-40C aircrafts.
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