Italian Air Minister Italo Balbo in Orbetello, Italy. Air Minister Italo Balbo with officers during a meeting. He looks at documents. Savoia Marchetti S.55 flying boats lined up on a field. Italo Balbo reviews airmen lined up on the field. A priest with Balbo. Balbo in flight gear as he prepares to take off for the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.
The Malta Conference in Malta, United Kingdom during World War II. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral George Emery arrives at Allied Air Terminal in Luqa. Views of officers arriving at the airport. U.S. Army General Walter Bedell Smith speaking to other officers. A sign board on a building in the background reads 'Allied Air Terminal, Luqa'. Several army personnel in front of the building. An army general salutes and disembarks from an aircraft. He walks with another officer. A photographer taking pictures. The officers talking on the airfield. Several officers in the background.
The Malta Conference in Malta, United Kingdom during World War II. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William Averell Harriman disembarking from an aircraft at Allied Air Terminal in Luqa. Ambassador Harriman talking to an official standing beside the aircraft. U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Ernest King disembarks from an aircraft. He is greeted by British Army Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson and another officer. The officers talking beside an aircraft. Ambassador Harriman with Major General F. M. Anderson Deputy Commander USSTAF (United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe) and other officers. Several officers beside an aircraft in the background.
The Malta "Argonaut" Conference in Malta, United Kingdom during World War II. The Military Chiefs of Britain and the United States,preparing for the Malta Conference, seated at a table in Montgomery House. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall seated at the table looking at documents. U.S. Army Service Forces Commanding General Brehon Burke Somervell standing beside General Marshall and talking to the General. U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Ernest King seated beside General Marshall. United States Air Force General Laurence Sherman Kuter seated with other U.S. and British officers during the conference. British Army Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson and Royal Air Force Marshal Charles Portal seated among the officers. Field Marshal Wilson and an officer coming out of the Auberge de Castille, Valletta , the official headquarters for British delegation for the conference. Officers saluting the Field Marshal. The Field Marshal waiting outside the building with other officers. Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Alan Brooke leaving the building with British General Hastings Lionel Ismay. A large crowd of officers and civilians watch the officers climbing down the steps of the building and stepping into a car.
U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft bombard Japanese positions in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A map of the area. U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight over islands in the Pacific. The aircraft fly in formation. A Japanese cruiser underway at sea. The cruiser being bombed. A gun sight aiming point view of the cruiser being strafed. Explosions occur at sea. Enemy barges being attacked by the aircraft. Smoke rises at sea. U.S. aircraft bomb Munda Airfield. Smoke rises from the shoreline of the Munda island. Bombs being released over Bismarck Islands and the Solomon Islands. Bombs impact and columns of smoke rise.
Japanese aircraft during an air raid on positions in China during the Second Sino-Japanese conflict. Japanese bombers parked at an airfield. Pre-dawn view of several Japanese A5M aircraft warming up. Bomber aircraft pilots and crews lined up as they salute a commanding officer. Propellers rotate as engines warm up on a group of Mitsubishi Ki-2 Light Bombers. The ground crews wave their hats as the bombers leave for an air raid. Point of view shot of a Japanese flight crew in the cockpit of an airborne Mitsubishi Ki-2 aircraft. Bombs away view of bombs release over enemy target in China. The bombs impact and smoke rises up from targets. Aerial view of the bombers in flight, returning after the mission.
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