A group of Canadian designers come up with rotary-wing aircraft that combines a conventional engine with free-spinning rotors. Technicians examine the plane while pilot boards for take off. Aircraft taxies, hangar in the background. Aircraft takes off from runway. Aircraft flies on airfield.
Woman feeding rolled tobacco into a machine in a factory in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A packaged tobacco product emerges from the machine and is transported to another work station, where a woman packs it into boxes.Man looks through loupe and examines a manufactured piece of jewelry.
Ground-crew woman carries cockpit ladder to aircraft TA-4J at Naval Air Station Chase Field. TA-4Js parked in flight line at airfield. Pilot gets down TA-4J and converses with ground-crew woman. Pilot goes under TA-4J. View inside cockpit of TA-4J. Instrument panel in cockpit. Man works with equipment in lower section of TA-4J. Pilot and other men examine aircraft. Men check wings of TA-4J.
Japanese Imperial Navy submarine I-369 docked at Yokosuka Japanese Naval Base, at end of World War 2. Another submarine nearby has white tents on its deck. American Navy sailor walking along deck of a docked Japanese submarine. Several Japanese I-400 class submarines tied side by side. Armed sailor walks along deck of another Japanese submarine that displays painted images of tigers on its conning tower along side ID numbers that include Japanese characters and "101". Two U.S. Navy sailors aboard the submarine. One examines its deck gun. Japanese soldiers unloading, what appear to be, military duffel bags, from a barge at the dock, as a Japanese officer and several U.S. sailors watch.
10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment mission in Burma, during World War Two. U.S. Airmen talk in front of jeep bearing Letters "AJR" on its windshield.. They examine a map. Ground crew pull props through on B-25 Mitchell bomber and clean gun turret canopies. View of pilots inside cockpit of B-25 in flight over jungle. A jungle rescue team discusses mission in front of a Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter parked at field. Pilot, Lieutenant Carter Harmon, climbs into cockpit of the helicopter. Ground crew seen pulling props through on a B-25. Views from inside a B-25 flying over jungle. The object of rescue is is seen. (TSgt Ed "Murphy" Hladovcak of the 1st Air Commandos, piloting a Stinson L-1 Vigilant with three wounded British soldiers on board, had been forced down behind Japanese lines, several miles from Mawlu, Burma.) Two B-25s are seen parked on a rough field. A white tent is nearby and many Burmese people are seen. Airmen are seen around a B-25. Brief view of happy airmen inside a vehicle. (Note: This is probably the first use of a helicopter for a combat rescue. )
Jungle Rescue mission in Burma. U.S. soldiers examine the wreckage of U.S. C-47 in jungle. Soldiers wade through water. Smoke is emitted from flare on ground. Aircraft overhead. Smoke spreads through area. Soldier talks into radio. Stinson L-5 Sentinel drops supplies by parachute. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel serial number 44-16876 carrying a crash survivor, taxis after landing, followed by an Army ambulance and a C-47 aircraft. Injured soldier on stretcher is carried to ambulance from plane. Words written on side of plane read "Spirit of Lafayette School." "Lincoln Park, Michigan. Donated by Pupils to the Army, Mar 17th 1944."
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