Mechanics servicing P-40 fighter aircraft on what is most likely 4-mile Strip on New Guinea. Date is probably late 1942. "Scatterbrain" was the name painted a P-40 flown by Captain George Manning of the 7th Fighter Squadron, which was based at Rogers Airfield, Port Moresby, New Guinea, during 1942-43, during World War Two.
A film titled 'High Altitude dive and glide bombing' about means of attaining accuracy and pilot safety by carrier-based light aircraft dive bombers dropping special devices. A U.S. Navy dive bomber in flight in the United States. The aircraft rolls and dives down. A bomb impacts after being released. A massive explosion occurs (small atomic / nuclear). A mushroom cloud of smoke and dust rises up. A dive bomber in flight. The aircraft dives down and drops a bomb. An explosion occurs and billows of smoke rise up.
A film about means of attaining accuracy by dive bombers in the United States. A U.S. Navy carrier based light aircraft in flight. The aircraft rolls and dives. Aerial views of the ground below as seen from the airborne aircraft. The aircraft dives at an angle of 70 degrees. A pipper moves on the target area. An explosion occurs on the target. The aircraft in flight as seen from the aircraft. The aircraft dives at an angle of 60 degrees. An explosion occurs and smoke rises. The aircraft rolls and continues flight.
Japanese kamikaze suicide aircraft attacks in Okinawa, Japan. Japanese suicide aircraft stationed. A Japanese aircraft in flight. A bomb kept on the ground. A Japanese Bucker aircraft stationed. Technical details and various parts of the aircraft. An animation: a rocket unit at the base of the aircraft. The rocket being released from the aircraft. An approach to attack a ship. Different ways to escape from radar detection. Different methods to escape identification. Multiple attacks on the ship. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows a Boeing B-24 Liberator bomber arriving at an airfield in the Caribbean during World War 2 . U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt steps from the aircraft, stopping here on one of her many trips. She strolls among U.S. servicemen and others. She is escorted by a General and reviews American Troops on parade at an army base. Scene shifts abruptly to the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney in New South Wales Sydney Australia, where the Australian Destroyer, Bataan, is being Christened on 15 January 1944 by Jean MacArthur, the wife of General Douglas MacArthur. Dockyard workers drive wedges from beneath the destroyer's hull, to free her for launching. Mrs. MacArthur announces the name, Bataan, and swings a bottle of champaign to christen her. The ship proceeds down the ways. View from below of sailors on deck as she launches.
The medical aid being provide to the U.S. soldiers in Anzio, Italy. The U.S. officers walk through a passage down the stairs. The U.S. soldiers work at the underground headquarters on telephones,typewriters and many more to keep in touch with the soldiers. A soldier works at the typewriter. The posters of a girl on the wall. The injured U.S. soldiers in the medical train. The nurses move in the train. The soldiers eat. Nurses treat the soldiers. The rest at the base hospital. A soldier being carried on a stretcher into the hospital ship. (World War II period).
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