U.S. P-38 Lightning and heavy bomber aircraft in flight approaching the Wewak airfield. Close-up aerial views of P-38s and B-25 Mitchell aircraft. Aircraft attacking Japanese Fourth Air Army targets. Several B-24 liberators, B-25 bombers and P-38 lightning aircraft flying over the airfield. Aircraft rolling, circling and flying low over airfield and dropping bombs. A B-24 Liberator on its side in a pond. Appears to have crashed off edge of Allied airfield on returning from Wewak raid. (World War II period).
Several Martin B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft attacking over Le Trait in France. B-26 bomber aircraft flying in group on approach to shipyards on the Seine River. Aerial views of the aircraft dropping bombs, views of destroyed shipyards and smoke from the target areas. U.S. 8th Army Air Force footage. (World War II period).
Two officials talk to a French dignitary (possibly French Prime Minister Leon Blum) at an airport in Europe. A crowd looks on. Policemen escort the dignitary towards an Air France plane parked on an airstrip. Photographers take pictures. The dignitary addresses the crowd in French, waves and boards the plane. The aircraft taxis and takes off.
A U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber in flight. View through windshield showing windshield wiper and out rear cockpit toward tail of aircraft. Aircraft in flight over clouds. KC-135 refueling boom seen attached and detaching. Belly of the B-47. View of the sun through the clouds.
Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. A sign for the Irving Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research in New Mexico. A path leading to the site. A barrage balloon in the sky. A Mobile Station on a hill. 'Mobile Test Station, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory' sign on one of the trailers. The Test Station emblem. The landscape around the Station. Cimarron Range around the station. Bright yellow flowers at the Station. Tree covered hill. Scientists seated at the Station.
Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. Clouds over the mountains. The Mobile Test Station, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory on Mount Baldy. Side view of laser beam fixture that is directed vertically into heavy clouds to break down atmosphere and cause lightning strikes. The landscape and mountains around the Station. An antenna with metal cables. A loud speaker on one of the Station trailers. The hatch in the hood opens. The Station sign and emblem on the trailer. A technician emerges from inside the trailer, climbs down the ladder and walks around to the other side. The rear of the trailer.
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