Final segment of "Army Air Forces special film project 151" known as "Wings for This Man". Third anniversary of United States Army Tuskegee Army Air Field being celebrated in August, 1944 during World War 2. Tuskegee Airmen U.S. African American cadets march. Commanding General U.S. Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command addresses the cadet soldiers, families and spectators assembled. Cadets march at the ceremony. P-40 airplanes seen parked at the airfield. Several P-40s taxiing. (note: narrated by Ronald Reagan)
U.S. ships under Japanese air attack in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Inside hangar bay of USS Hornet (CV-12). Nose of U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat fighter in the foreground. Two men on stage planting Japanese flags on scoreboard. South Dakota class battleship under Japanese air attack. Japanese planes explode in air. Plane takes off from Hornet.
U.S. President-Elect Jimmy Carter at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. An official speaks at a desk. A board displays Room Status. Chief of Staff of U.S. Air Force General George Brown leaves a room followed by U.S. President-Elect Jimmy Carter and others. Jimmy Carter, U.S. Vice President Elect Walter Mondale, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Chief of Staff of U.S. Air Force George Brown, Chief of Staff of U.S. Army Bernard W. Rogers, U.S. Navy Admiral James Holloway, U.S. Air Force General David Jones and United States Marine Corps General Louis Wilson seated at a conference table.
A Control tower and beach at U.S. Naval Air Station Bermuda. Two U.S. sailors are seen on the beach. (A Military Air Transport Service-MATS- C-97 Stratofreighter is parked on a ramp in background.) One sailor is launching a large inflated balloon. Closeup of manual "Radiosonde, Type AN AMQ 10." The balloon in the air tethered to radiosonde equipment held by sailor. He releases it and the sailors pay out line as balloon ascends.
A film on the workings of Air Force Service Group. Their role in keeping remote air force landing strips supplied and in repairing and salvaging damaged airplanes and equipment during World War II is demonstrated. A small airplane in flight low overhead and it drops a parachute with important aerial reconnaissance photographs to an Air Service Center. Soldiers process the photographs. Other soldiers look at the photographs. Soldiers repairing a break in a field wire. A soldier keeps a watch for the enemy. Messages are send in the field with the help of the field wire and an encoding machine. Other soldiers after receiving messages typing them and decoding them. An officer looking at a document. Resources of the center are mobilized. A soldier talking over a phone. U.S. Army Ordnance Company soldiers loading and packing 50 caliber ammunition belts and loading them into boxes. The boxes are loaded in trucks.
An interview of United States Air Force Lieutenant General Ira Eaker conducted by Dr. Maurer in the United States. General Eaker is asked about his contribution to the Air Force. He speaks about the earlier period of World War I when he was a pilot. He speaks about his working as the Commander of the 20th Pursuit Group. He also talks about the working and the activities of the Air Force units during World War II.
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