Mishaps during the shakedown cruise of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) in World War 2. A U.S. Navy F4U Corsair of VF-17, noses over but settles upright, while landing on the carrier. View from port stern of the Bunker Hill as she passes an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber from VB-17, in the water. The pilot and gunner climb over the sinking airplane to board their emergency life raft, already inflated next to the airplane. As the crew of the Bunker Hill watches, the air crewmen board their life raft, as the dive bomber sinks.
Curtiss P-40 airplane of the "Flying Tigers" with tiger teeth painted on its nose, early in World War 2. American volunteer airmen of the squadron loading belt of 50 caliber ammunition into the plane. A red warning flag raised above the plane as guns are tested on the ground. Flying Tigers pilots in their operations office. Closeup of American General Claire Chennault,adviser to the Chinese Air Force and Commander of the Flying Tigers. Pilots scramble to their aircraft and take off to engage Japanese planes. Eight P-40s flying overhead in a V formation. Aerial view of Flying Tiger P-40s in flight. Closeup view of Japanese Tachikawa Ki-36/55 airplane, in flight, with canopy open showing pilot in front cockpit and second crew member in rear cockpit. (Wheel pants are not installed on this aircraft, indicating it is a Ki 55 version.) View of a P-40 diving. General Chennault conversing with a Chinese officer. A group of pilots in flight suits and helmets walking away from the flight line after a mission.
British tanks being loaded at a UK port, bound for the Soviet Union, during World War 2. A Cruiser V Covenanter tank in the foreground and several Valentine tanks lined up behind it. A trainload of tanks moving on a British railway. Convoy of Allied ships headed toward the Soviet Union. Map shows route from the UK to Murmansk. View from aboard a ship in the convoy as gunners man antiaircraft gun to defend against German bombers attacking from Norway. Black flak clouds in the air. View of the convoy proceeding through waters containing drifting pieces of ice.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt reviews a military parade in Washington D.C during World War II. United States Army soldiers and paratroopers marching in Washington DC. The U.S. Capitol is seen in the background. Tank corps in parade. A United States Army Air Force fighter displayed in moving float. Civilians watch the military parade.
A film titled 'In 1909 Wilbur Wright demonstrated his invention before the King of Italy and Italian Government officials'. Wilbur Wright and his assistant in plane. Plane moves down a rail. Plane takes off. The plane flies past the group. Italian Officers watch as Wilbur Wright demonstrates his plane. Plane leaves rail and is airborne over flat field. View of air to ground, as first motion pictures are taken from an airplane.
A biplane in flight. Plane seen flying close to the ground. A biplane stunting over large crowd in Panama Pacific Exposition. Lincoln Beachey the first stunt man adjusts his helmet. A stunt man stands on right wing of a biplane grabs curved rod under wing. He leaves the first plane, throws leg through metal loop and hangs in mid-air during actual transfer from one plane to other.
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