A flight of U.S. Army Air Corps P-47s peels off and executes 360-overhead landings at Asch Airfield (Y-29), Belgium, during World War 2. They include aircraft from several American units, all part of the U.S. 9th Air Force. They include: tail number 44-20227 of the 390th Fighter Squadron, 366th Fighter Group and tail number 42-26860 of the 512th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group.
P-47 Thunderbolts in Belgium, during World War 2. Several P-47 Thunderbolts circling and peeling off for landings. P-47s landing on airstrip. Runway controller fires flare at one point and a P-47 goes around as another lands. P-47s taxiing and parking. Aircraft seen include P-47 tail number 42-26860 and two other P-47s from 512th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group. Also seen are aircraft from 513th and 514th Squadrons of the 406th Fighter Group and 389th Fighter Squadron of the 366th Fighter Group. Location is most likely Asch airbase (Y-29) in Belgium.
P-47 Thunderbolts in Belgium during World War 2. Sunrise on a partly cloudy day in Belgium. P-51 Mustang parked on flight line in the foreground. P-47 Thunderbolts taking off in background. One P-47 making emergency landing with right tire missing. Pilot touches down on left wheel and sparks fly from the right wheel as it scrapes the runway during rollout. The P-47 is number: 42-26460, O7-A , of 514th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group. P-47s taxiing to end of runway then taking off.
Red Cross hospital tent area in Munich. Hospital area and company street. Red Cross flag on top of pole. Sign reads 'Ambulance Stop Here'. View of hospital tents. Jeeps and trucks drive past in the foreground. Man on cot in a tent. Sign reads 'Ward A-5'. Row of five parked ambulances. Red Cross tent entrance showing a RC girl walking out.
Two U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain air evac transport aircraft land on an airstrip. Scene shifts to ambulance stopping at hospital tent and medics removing patients on stretchers. Patients are carried into hospital tents. Patients lying on stretcher inside tent.
American Red Cross hospital area in Munich during World War II. Patients are carried out from tents and placed in ambulances on stretchers. Ambulance drives off. Patients are loaded into C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Ambulance pulls off. Aircraft door closes. C-47s taxiing on runway for take off.
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