Major General James B Doolittle, commander, Northwest African Strategic Air Forces, presenting award citations to U.S. Army Air Forces fliers. He presents Distinguished Flying Cross to a Colonel, who wears Command Pilot wings. General Doolittle surrounded by fliers, points to Bizerte, on a map of Tunisia. Doolittle donning a flight jacket, as he stands beside an airplane.
Men holding Service flag in honor of members of the USA Air Service at De Mille Field in Hollywood, California on Air Memorial Day. Soldiers marching. Planes on field. Mary Pickford gives Service flag to Colonel H. A. Arnold. Hoisting flag. Ovation from the audience. Shakes hand with officers. Navy sailors marching.
Sailors along catwalk of USS Midway (CV-41) during Operation Sandy in the Atlantic Ocean. V-2 rocket in firing position, on both port and starboard sides of ship. Superstructure of USS Midway. The rocket had been captured in Germany and re-manufactured at White Sands Missile Range. Rocket in firing position on the flight deck. Rocket ignition and it takes off into the air, tilted almost immediately upon launch. Rocket progress is tracked in the air and is seen as it falls into the ocean at a distance.
Buildings devastated during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. A crane operates. Views of devastated buildings on Island. Wrecked Japanese planes at airfield. Entrance of Japanese air raid shelter. Wrecked air strip.
A U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 transport follows a jeep to park at airport in Nanking, china, capital of the Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) Government of Chiang Kai-shek. Chinese Air Force P-51 aircraft are seen parked on the ramp in background. General George C. Marshall, on Presidential mission to facilitate peace between KMT and Communists, steps from the airplane and is greeted by Chinese Generals Shang Chen; Ho Yin Chin; and U.S. Lieutenant General Wedemeyer and American Ambassador to China, Patrick Hurley. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek personally escorts General Marshall to a waiting staff car.
A review of remote controlled weapons of the U.S. Army Air Force. A worker replaces cap of a bomb by a tail section. Smoke flares attached with this tail section. Bomb is placed on a cart and dragged towards a B-25 bomber aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Force. Operators work on instruments to observe the glide of the bomb through a lower gun turret well. Bomb dropped traverses towards its target on ground (World War II period).
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