Aircraft manufacture in United States during World War I. Men work on a metal part of an air plane at an aircraft manufacturing plant. Men assemble a biplane at the plant. They assemble the wings and remove them.
Aircraft manufacture in United States during World War I. Propellers of an aircraft being shaved with hand and men give them final finishing. They inspect and measure the propellers. Process of balancing as propellers are turned by men. A man breathes out air which make the propellers turn.
Project Storm fury at Roosevelt Roads Naval air station in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. Chief Petty Officer set as a desk with a weather map spread out in front of him. Photographers mate come and hand over a message to the Chief. Chief looks at the plotting sheet and make markings on the weather map to plot the course of hurricane Faith.
During NATO Operation Cirrus, an airman stands by the side of runway at Volkel Airfield in the Netherlands, taking motion pictures of Gloster Meteor Jet aircraft landing. (The aircraft of from Netherlands Royal Air Force Squadrons 327 and 328.)
Preparations for allied D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. United States Air Borne Aviation Engineers load equipment in a C-47 aircraft. An engineer backs a tractor in a glider. Men and equipment moved across a field and loaded into CG-4A glider. Men raise rear section of equipment up for loading into a ramp. Nose section of a glider raise for loading vehicles into front end. Men and equipment in preparation for fast loading. Jeep backed into front end of loading ramp of a glider. A trailer, small canon and a carriage loaded into a glider. A pilot walks into the plane and takes over controls.
Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. General Dwight D Eisenhower and other officers at SHEAF (Supreme Headquarters of Allied Expeditionary Force) as they confer about the invasion. Inside the headquarters, Commanders of Navy, Army and Air Force at a meeting. British ground crewmen work on English Horsa gliders. 9th Troop Carrier Command paints U.S. insignia on side of Horsa. United States C-47 plane takes off and a wind wane indicates wind direction. C-47 planes fly across at low altitude, two poles with pick up rope attached between them. C-47 makes aerial pick ups of gliders. Interior of C-47 plane crew members shove off large cargo packs out. Cargo packs and parachutes descend.
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