Tokyo bombings during World War II. Flames rise from a target area in Tokyo, Japan after bombings by U.S. aircraft. A truck on fire. A burning aircraft. A field with a few trees. Thick smoke rises into the air in the background. Smoke rising from bombed areas. A road in view. Smoke rising from areas on one side of the road. A burning aircraft on an airstrip and thick black smoke rising into the air. Parts of the aflame aircraft strewn on the airstrip.
United States Army Air Force medium bombers in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War 3. Aerial view of an Italian city along a coastline. The control panel of a USAAF B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. A few USAAF B-26 Marauder medium bombers in a formation flight. Bombs dropped from the aircraft hit target areas in the city. Smoke rises after explosions in the bombed areas. Smoke mushrooming into the air from several target areas. Several B-26 aircraft in a formation flight.
Wounded American airman, accompanied by uniformed nurses on the grounds of a rehabilitation center in England during World War 2. One airman picks a tulip for U.S. Army lieutenant (Nurse) accompanying him at the infirmary. Several recovering wounded are seen fishing from the bank of a stream on the grounds. One catches an eel. U.S. Air Force Captain Clark Gable, a Hollywood movie star, visits one of the recovering wounded 8th Air Force B-17 pilots to see how he is.They discuss the events surrounding his wounding. Captain Gable asks his opinion of the B-17 aircraft. The pilot responds that it is the "best in the world."
French civilian spectators fill a grandstand and ground in front of it to watch a French military track meet (with some American participation) during World War 1. Longer distance runners are cheered by some spectators as they cross the finish line, one by one, in front of the grandstand. contestants run a shorter race with a close finish. The winner is congratulated by a French military officer. Scene shifts to closeup of Lieutenant Paul Rene Fonk, French Air Ace credited with over 59 enemy planes. He stands in center of stadium, being recognized by the crowd. An American officer is seen standing behind him. Next, a large group of youths perform calisthentics in unison for the crowd. Lieutenant Leonard, of the U.S. Air Service (in athletic garb) converses with Lieutenant Fonk. Other athletes, another U.S. flyer, and a French civilian official stand with them. As they move away, Lieutenant Fonk and other French officers remain to confer with the French civilian official. Another race is seen, next, as runners come past in single file around the track.
A public television program by the U.S. Army entitled 'The Big Picture.' U.S. troops are seen hunkered down and looking through binoculars in a defensive position in Korea, during the Korean War. American soldiers riding atop a Sherman tank on a city street in Germany, during World War II. Ski troops moving across snowy hill in Alaska. U.S. Army amphibious assault training on a beach in Puerto Rico. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, narrator, speaks about America's defense against threat of atomic attack in these times of lukewarm peace. View of mountainous region in Alaska. A cluster of Cup'it Eskimo dwellings is seen on Nunivak Island, in the Bering Sea. Several of the local inhabitants are fishing through holes cut in the ice. Vapor trails are seen from Soviet aircraft flying at high altitude. A sign on a tarpaulin displaying logo of the Army Signal Corps, reads,"Alaska Communication System, Long Distance Commercial Telephone-Telegraph." A tracked vehicle carries a soldier to a facility posting a sign reading, "Alaska Communications System Receiver Station." Several tall antennas loom above the site. The soldier, dressed in arctic gear, steps from the tracked vehicle and walks past several snow shoes, standing upright in the snow, to enter a white wooden building. Inside, a man in civilian clothes works at a battery of telecomunications equipment. He transmits a message about the aircraft sighting, to the Alaska Communication System facility in Fairbanks Alaska (briefly shown) by means of a telegraph key. From there it is relayed to a Signal Corps facility, shown, in Washington, DC. A soldier is seen Inside that facility, in a room filled with computers and telecommunications equipment. A Sergeant handles paper tape messages being sent and received by teletype. Another soldier plugs connections into a communications switchboard. Next, the camera pans over the entrance to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. More views of soldiers attending banks of teletype machines. Animated map displays paths of orders being transmitted to U.S. Air Defense Centers in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta. View from control room, of several U.S. Air Force F-94 Fighter Interceptor aircraft on an airfield ramp. A controller activates a Klaxon horn and pilots on alert, in the Fighter Interceptor Squadron ready room, jump up and scramble to their aircraft. A pair of F-94s taking off. One is number 51-5385. Next, a U.S. Navy F-9 fighter plane is seen taking off from an airfield. It displays tail code AE. It is followed by another F-9 aircraft.
Henry Ford attends the National Air Tours at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford with another man in front of a Ford hangar and a Ford Trimotor. In the background is the tail of a single engine Ford 2-AT, #4 from the Ford Air Transport Service "Maiden Dearborn IV". Side view of a Ford tractor in the foreground.
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