U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War II. A U.S. aircraft. A U.S. Army Air Force officer comes out of the fighter aircraft. Another officer salutes the Air Force officer. The officers in a discussion. The Maneuver Director's headquarters. The officers communicate. Tents in the background. An officer demonstrates a map to other officers. The communication zone of the headquarters. The officers proceed towards the communication zone. The officers communicate. The 4th machine record unit. The base general depot.
The use of the AZON (AZimuth ONly) smart bomb by United States during World War II. The Tenth Air Force Base in Burma. A soldier unpacks components of the AZON bomb. He unpacks a flare. Soldiers test the radio receiver. An airman conducts a final check on the tail assembly and inserts the radio receiver and battery. A 1 million candle power flare is fixed to the tail. The assembled bombs are brought to the waiting U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators of the 9th and 493rd Squadrons of the 7th Heavy Bomber Group. The bombs are loaded onto the aircraft for mission targets in lower Burma. The B-24s in flight. The bombs are released. The flare is ignited by a delay fuse. Explosions on the ground as the bombs hit targets. The bombers in flight drop numerous more AZONs. They target roads, canals, and bridges. Six different bombs are dropped simultaneously.
View of a man, stepping over railroad tracks as he carries a shovel of rocky earth. A 1940 Ford sedan drives along a road and past the camera. View of several men with shovels on a rail line in a ditch down below the road level. View from the rail line, to ledge above. Men wielding picks and shovels to clear walls of earth and stone and provide greater space along the rail line. Some workers wear bandanas over their faces to protect from the powdery earth. A supervisor standing with them wears a first aid kit on his hip. It is labeled "USNYA." U.S. Army troops in trucks drive along a main street, followed by a large caterpillar tractor, as local citizens watch from the sides of the road. Sign on chain link fence displays Army Air Forces logo and identifies Losey Field. Trucks roll past behind the fence. Men continuing work loading sandy soil into wheel barrows and dumping it to side of the work area. Local young boys, watching the activity, laugh when they realize they are being photographed. License plate on truck, with National Defense sign affixed above it. The truck is filled with young men workers, who climb down and walk along a road, carrying tools over their shoulders. Two of them are seen chopping at the base of an obstacle with picks. Workers walking in and out of airfield gate and trucks driving through, as a flight of three Army Air Forces P-36 aircraft fly overhead
The United Nation forces in Korean War. United States troops and tanks withdraw through Seoul, Korea. Korean orphans being evacuated from Kimpo air base by United states U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft
United States Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers in action in Thailand during World War II. Men work in a plant in the United States as they manufacture B-29 bombers. Men work on the body of the aircraft. In China, fuel barrels being loaded onto an aircraft for transporting. Chinese troops roll the barrels and pile them up at an air base for refueling B-29 aircraft. Fuel being unloaded from the barrels into a huge storage tank. Piled up barrels. A B-29 aircraft takes off and in flight. The Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok, Thailand being bombarded by the B-29s. Bombs impact and billows of smoke rise up.
Activities of the Allies in the European Theater during World War II. Officers and prisoners walk up a gangway aboard an Allied ship. Wounded German prisoners being brought aboard the ship heading for France. Bombs being loaded aboard a Royal Air Force (RAF) Short Stirling bomber at an airbase in the UK. A flight crew boards the aircraft and is in the cockpit. A gunner at a mounted machine gun aboard the airplane. A captured German Ju-88 aircraft being performance tested at an air base in England. Near head-on view of the JU-88 taking off. View of tail rising as it gains speed and is about to break ground. Views of the JU-88 in flight over the airdrome. A RAF Hawker Hurricane takes off. The aircraft in flight. The aircraft attacks a Nazi ship in the North Sea. Explosions occur at the sea. A Nazi U boat being captured by a RAF Coastal Command airplane. The British flag flies aboard the German submarine. The German captain of the U-boat seen up close with grim expression on his face. British civilians on dock in harbor wave their hats and cheer as the captured U-boat approaches the dock.
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