A mid air recovery of a space capsule from an orbit over the Pacific Ocean. Aircraft in flight over the Pacific Ocean. They snare the descending Discoverer XIV capsule while in flight. Men watch the event.
Scenes of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army Air Corp (ML-KNIL) at Kallang Airfield in Singapore during World War 2. Group of Dutch pilots gathered together for a group photo around aircraft B-3111, the plane of Lt. Frederik Pelder. The pilots are from 2-VLG V which was ordered to Singapore when the shooting war began, arriving 9 December 1941 and returning back to Semplak on 18 January 1942. Skull and cross bones held by commanding officer of 2-VLG-V, Captain Jacob Pieter van Helsdingen. The pilots and crew laugh and smile for the group photo shoot. A Dutch Martin 139WH (export version of the B-10) being loaded with bombs. Machine gunner seated in position in the aircraft. The Dutch Martin 139WH in flight overhead. Several views of Dutch Brewster B-339D fighter aircraft taxiing and in flight. Dutch pilots "scramble" (in response to alarm )and run quickly to their "Brewsters." Dutch Brewster B-339D aircraft take off in flights of three and join up in formation. An Australian Hudson I aircraft with Twin Wasp engines seen briefly as it taxis on the airfield.
Activities in and around the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) station at Fylingdales in England. View across a valley to radomes on hilltop. Aerial view of houses and trees. A sign board reads: 'National Park'. Car passing on the street. U.S. Air Force rest hotel and village on the coast.
Activities in and around the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) station at Fylingdales in England. United States Air Force housing in a village. Houses along the sides of a street. Vehicles passing on the street. A man comes out of a house and boards a vehicle. Children playing on the street.
Japanese air attacks over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during World War II. A relief map shows Japan, China, the U.S. and the Philippine Islands. An arrow on the relief map point from Japan to the Hawaiian Islands. Two Japanese aircraft carriers underway in the Pacific Ocean. A section of the deck of a Japanese ship. Anti-aircraft guns on the side of the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Two Japanese officers conversing. Sailors in the background. Japanese pilots being orientated by a Japanese officer. A group of Japanese pilots around the officer. Japanese Navy Nakajima B5N 'Kates' aircraft engines are warming up. The pilots stand in a semi-circle around a senior officer. The sailors remove chucks from under the wheels of 'Kates'. A sailor waves a white flag. Japanese Navy Aichi D3A 'Vals' aircraft take off in formation. An aerial formation of the 'Vals'. A flag fluttering on the mast of a Japanese ship. Clouds in the sky. An aerial formation of 'Kates'. Japanese insignia on a Japanese plane. Airplanes in flight over Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii. Bombs explode on a runway of the airfield. Smoke rises from a hangar and the runway. Smoke rises from the docks at Pearl Harbor due to bombardment by the Japanese airplanes. Several Japanese destroyers underway.
Aerial view from Japanese aircraft of smoke rising from bombs dropped on Philippines, after its occupation by Japanese forces in World War 2. Several Japanese Aichi D3A (Type 99 Navy dive bombers, later called "Val") filmed from Japanese-occupied Clark Field, as they fly overhead in formation. Two of them pitch up and execute a loop, together, as Japanese military personnel on the ground watch them. Momentary view of pilot in cockpit of airplane. Those on the ground cheer and applaud the maneuver. A wrecked U.S. Army B-17 bomber is seen with all four engines removed. Camera shows cockpit interior and "Model B-17D, Air Corps, Serial No. A.C.40-3069" stenciled on the fuselage. (It is believed parts from this aircraft were used by the Japanese to repair B-17 40-3095, which was later flown to Japan as a war prize.) View of a destroyed American B-10 bomber. Interior of wrecked hangar in which Japanese maintenance is being performed on a Mitsubishi Ki.30 and a Mitsubishi Ki-21 twin engine bomber ("Type 97 Heavy Bomber" later called "Sally.") Japanese mechanics work on a bomber outdoors on the ramp. Ground crew meet a Mitsubishi Ki.30 "Ann" single-engine attack plane as it taxis in after landing. They load bombs on it. Momentary glimpse of mechanic climbing into a "Sally bomber." "Sally" bombers lined up on the tarmac.
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