Remote Controlled Television Glide Bombs. TV monitoring and control equipment mounted below the core of bomb. Airmen drag the cart with the bomb towards a B-17 bomber of the U.S. Army Air Force. Airmen attach glide bomb to the racks beneath the wings of the B-17. The long glide of the bomb faces its target. Massive explosion at target. The house is destroyed by the bomb. (World War II period).
A review of remote controlled weapons of the U.S. Army Air Force. A pointer marks deviations from the ideal of a bomb, gliding towards its target. Workers take out tail section of a glide bomb from a case and place it on a test bench. Assembling components such as Gyro-Stabilizers, which maintain vertical position of the Rudders of the tail. Release of bomb with rudders at a 45 degree angle. Radio Controllers attached with tail section . Worker operates control lever to control the movement of tail. (World War II period).
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. United States Army Air Force personnel unpacks the smoke flares from wooden boxes. Tests of flares and checks their continuity using some meter. In a laboratory a man removes gyroscope which controls the ailerons and rudder from a box to test them. He tests a radio receiver for frequency matching and then installs it in Azon Bomb assembly. Testing of the complete assembly and marking it as correct.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force technicians perform continuity and other tests on various components of Azon Bombs in their laboratory. The indicators and meter readings display the results of the tests. Technicians with badges on their uniform check and assemble a tail section of an Azon Bomb. Another technician fills the check sheet.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force technician in uniform works with multiple tail sections of Azon Bombs kept in a series on a wooden board. He attaches smoke flares and fastens the screws with the tail sections using a screw driver. He makes entries in his record book.
Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during the World War II. Azon Bombs attached to a B-24 bomber of the United States Army Air Force. An airman puts Azon Adapter Ring to a 1000 lb Azon Bomb. Two airmen unload Azon fins from a truck and keep them aside.
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