View of military helicopter in the sky. 56th Special Operations Wing personnel train Royal Laotian Air Force personnel. United States Air Force instructor uses map and compass to train Laotian student and forward air control techniques on mountainside above target range. Laotian student talking on radio hand set. T-28 bomber maneuver over valley and fire rockets. Rockets explode on target range in forested valley.
Wendell Wilkie waves from the top of the boarding ramp by his Douglas DC-3-178 - American Airlines Flagship-Virginia, acknowledging people greeting him at the new Vultee aircraft plant in Nashville, Tennessee. An African American man in uniform stands by as Wilkie descends the ramp. Scene shifts to a sizeable crowd waving from behind a fence on the airfield. An aerial view shows the factory and its airfield. Closer view of factory building itself. Next, a huge crowd is seen behind a fence, where a Vultee P-66 is displayed on a stand above the fence. It bears a British Royal Air Force roundel on its fuselage. U.S. Air Army Air Forces Officers and some Boy Scouts pose in front ot the aircraft. Wendel Wilkie is seen next, at a speaker's stand arrayed with microphones. It is decorated and displays the Vultee company Logo. Special guests in front of the stand, are seated on folding chairs. Closeup of Wilkie. Company officials are seen on a platform next to a Vultee P-66. Closeup of two young girls on the platform. One wields a bottle of Champaign to Christen the plane. Spectators applaud. A P-66 takes off from the airfield and climbs away.
Berlin Airlift operations at Templehof Airfield during Berlin Blockade by the Soviet Union, as supplies are being brought from all over with roadways blocked by Russians. U.S. Air Force plane landing at Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin and a Berliner showing newspaper to two U.S. Air Force pilots. Crowd massed up outside a building. Pilot in flight talking into radio and airmen on ground responding. An aircraft with cargo crashes and firemen trying to put off fire. Aircraft operations going at ground and in air. Crowd walking at Tempelhof Airfield. Aircraft takes off.
Main control room at Fylingdales Moor Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Royal Air Force officer and Lieutenant Colonel Moore at two consoles, both conferring. Lieutenant Colonel Moore uses a red phone. Air Force and Royal Air Force enlisted men seated, and RAF squadron leader standing behind them. Tape drive operating in background.
Scenes from the Naval Battle of Midway, in World War 2. A helmeted sailor, on deck of a U.S warship, silhouetted next to a propeller blade. A Fletcher-class U.S. Navy destroyer in background. View from near top of a Curtiss SOC Seagull airplane on the USS Portland (CA-33),as she fires two of her 5 inch antiaircraft guns, amidship,during the battle of Midway. Air is filled with low-altitude black flak smoke. A Japanese G4M1 model 11 ("Betty") bomber flies close by at low altitude across the line of sight. Smoke rises from the Portland's gunfire. Another Betty bomber low over the water in far background. Aerial view of a burning Japanese cruiser, far below, maneuvering to evade American attacks. View from U.S. airplane circling closer to the smoking Japanese cruiser. Closeups of panned stills showing severely damaged Japanese warships. Scene shifts to a large formation of Navy personnel in dress whites, where U.S. Admiral Chester Nimitz is decorating navy personnel who distinguished themselves in the battle. Nimitz sits, visiting a wounded sailor, at a hospital. U.S.Army Air Forces B-17 Crews, who bombed Japanese ships, are seen being interviewed on Midway Island. Scene shifts to war production workers assembling aircraft in factories in the United States. U.S. warplanes being manufactured. B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft being rolled out of a plant. Graduation ceremony at the U.S. Naval academy, in Annapolis, Maryland. Spectators watch as the cadet corps parades. View inside the historic hall of the old academy filled with spectators, cadets graduate a year early due to the war. Graduating cadets shaking hands with Academy administrators. Cadets of the class of 1943 cheer and throw their hats in the air at end of commencement ceremonies on June 19, 1942.
RAF (Royal Air Force) Supermarine Spitfire single-seat fighter planes in flight during World War 2. Squadron of 12 Spitfires of 222 Squadron (coded "ZD") flying overhead in variety of different formations. Squadron of RAF Boulton Paul Defiant aircraft take off in flights of three aircraft each. Good air-to air close-up of single 222 Squadron Spitfire aircraft in flight.
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