The U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forbce, Brigadier General Benjamin D. Foulois and other officers look over De Havilland DH-4 biplane bombers parked at the air base. Their tails are painted in the French scheme, with blue-white-red vertical stripes. Brigadier General Foulois gets into the cockpit of one of the aircraft. He poses for the camera, beside an airplane, smoking his pipe. He and his staff stroll across the grassy field past parked airplanes.
A film depicts safety measures of the United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) on the Bermuda Islands. A USAAF C-54E Skymaster aircraft in flight with one propeller feathered. A radio operator on board the C-54E sends a distress call. A radio operator in the flight control tower at Kindley Air Force Base receives the message and uses a telephone. Printing by a printing machine. The C-54E with its engine on fire. A captain uses a telephone to alert the Search and Rescue Flight Section. Personnel of the Search and Rescue Flight Section move fast after being alerted by an alarm. They rush towards a deck. USAAF personnel take their military gear. Motor rescue launch P-359 is unanchored and is underway. The army air force personnel start the engine of a USAAF SB-17G Flying Fortress aircraft. It taxis and takes off. The flight control tower at Kindley AFB.
Technicians and members in the laboratories and offices of WADC, Dayton, Ohio, United States. Aerial view of approach to Wright Air Development Center (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), includuing view of Wright Memorial on Wright Brothers Hill. Low altituide aerial view of Aero Medical Laboratory, wind tunnel area, static structural tent building and the main flight line area. Hand holding book entitled, "Wright Air Development Center" (WADC). Hands open book-on first page is: "Mission of WADC". Interior, laboratory research building at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), airmen push rack down test area and into vault. Exterior view in Cambridge Massachusetts of the MIT Great Dome and Building 10 seen from Killian Court, with text engraving seen on building frieze: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two members of the Institute walk down steps of Building 10. Two technicians working in office building. Supersonic propeller undergoing test on large test stand. Superimposed over this picture are the words: Research And Development. Supersonic propeller undergoing tests. Two technicians at control panel of the test stand. USAF B-50 Superfortress aircraft in flight. Engine starting on B-50 in flight-plane equipped with special deicing equipment. B-50 in flight showing special test and research instruments and operator.
Hurricane Hunters track storm in the United States. Scenes of city during hurricane. People wade through water. In Texas:Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Cadets evacuate the victims. Members of the 9th Weather Reconnaissance Group board U.S. Air Force WB-50 Superfortress aircraft at the Kindley Air Force Base (ABF) ,Bermuda on a storm tracking mission. Aircraft takes off and in flight. Aircraft crew at controls as they fly into storm. View of the storm eye. Weather watchers record data and transmit information by wireless key to the Hurricane Weather Center in Miami. A teletype being operated. Woman goes through the damaged house.
Tests of GB-4 bombs (precision guided munition) in the United States during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell bomber taxis and takes off from an air strip. A pilot and a copilot in the cockpit of the B-25. An antenna mounted on a side of the aircraft. Technicians put a cover on the front of camera equipment mounted under a GB-4 bomb. The B-25 Mitchell in flight with the GB-4 mounted on its fuselage. Aerial view of Auxiliary One airstrip at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Allied officers in Korea during the Korean War. British Air Vice Marshal Cecil Arthur Bouchier who is the personal representative of British Chiefs of Staff, and William Atkin who is the General Manager of the London Daily Express News Service talking to officers at a base camp. United States Air Force Colonel Don Darrow is standing along with officers. The two visitors get into a truck to tour the camp. The visitors arriving with Colonel Darrow at a press train at Munsan. They get aboard. Mr Atkin, followed by others, coming off the train. Mr Atkin and the Air Vice Marshal walking in front of the train. They get into a vehicle and leave the area.
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