Film illustrating proper technique for recovering jet aircraft as they return to land on U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. A U.S. Navy F2H Banshee airplane lands on carrier flight deck. View of green shirt arresting gear deck crewman greasing an arresting cable to reduce friction for higher speed engagement in jet landings. More views of F2Hs landing. One fails to engage any of seven restraining cables and crashes into the barrier. An F6F airplane engaging cables as it lands on a carrier. View of jet nose passing under top cable of conventional barrier. "Davis"-type barrier used for jet airplanes. View of jet that passed all barriers and crashed into other aircraft. The deck covered in foam from firefighters. View of a Banshee jet crashing, bursting into flames, and falling in pieces off the flight deck. Deck crewmen surround a jet after engaging a Davis barrier. They disengage cables and push the aircraft clear of the deck. Arresting gear deck crewmen seen stowing a damaged Davis barrier. Adapting conventional barriers for use with jets by lowering them. More F2H landings. Landing signal officer with paddles. View from carrier deck of jet on final approach. View from an aircraft on final approach. F2H landing on the USS Coral Sea (CV-43). Taxiing after landing. An F9F that passed the barriers, being stopped and signalled to fold wings. Animated sketches of jet aircraft rocking and tilting. Deck crewmen chocking wheels and latching nosewheels. Firefighters foaming a jet when its engines would not shut down, and fuel continued to flow. View of damaged jet engine turbine wheel. An F6F landing on the carrier. F4U Corsairs, with folded wings, being moved by tug on deck. Views of poisonous lead compound powder on inside of jet engine tailpipe. Maintenance crewmen waxing wings of jet aircraft. Red shirt armament crewmen rearming a jet. Purple shirt aviation fuel crewmen refueling jets, mixing jet engine fuel with oil and spreading wings to refuel tip tanks. Use of a special wing-side ladder to refuel tip tanks on jets where permissable. Diagram of carrier illustraing proper method of spotting jets and conventional aircraft on deck. A Marine F2H being brought up on elevator. Deck crewmen pushing a jet backwards. Summary of jet handling techniques, with brief glimpses of actions being described. Formation of jet planes flying overhead.
U.S. Army helicopters in flight over Iraq during Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf War. Camera views at night of targets being destroyed by "smart bombs" and rockets. Targets include buildings and tanks. U.S. tanks move on the desert. Destroyed Iraqi tanks in desert. Smoke from the destroyed tanks. U.S. Army infantry soldiers running near a U.S. tank. Battery of rockets rotating atop a U.S. Army launcher. Images of tanks and artillery firing on targets.
Dramatization: Calcium arsenates spray to combat Boll Weevils in United States. A Government expert addresses the people about the use of different dusting machines at the Deer Park. He says that only the government approved machines should be used for the purpose. Men on engine power machine, the machine not suitable for the purpose of dusting. A cart duster can be used for the purpose. The cart duster is a two mule, two wheel and three nozzle machine. Man on a cart duster. Another man stands nearby. He sprays poison with the cart duster in a large field. Men stand near a one mule machine. Trees in the background. Small fields dusted by the one mule machine. Hand guns can be used where the horse-drawn machines cannot be used. Men dust pesticide on a small field with hand held dusting guns.
Formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17s on a bombing raid into Germany during World War 2. A formation of U.S. P-38 fighter aircraft escorting the bombers. German Me-109s engage the U.S. Army Air Force P-38 fighter aircraft in dogfights. German gun camera view of B-17 being fired upon. Several German FW-190s in the air. Gun camera view of B-17 having its wing shot off and another being raked with gunfire by a German fighter plane passing from behind and over it. View of a German Me-109 and gun camera showing B-17 being shot to pieces from behind. A U.S. Douglas Dauntless aircraft in flight, and one being shot at by a German FW-190. Formation of USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers viewed from behind. More gun camera footage of FW-190 shooting a B-17 from behind, putting one engine out of commission and severly damaging it. More Me-109s in flight. More B-17s being shot from behind. One dramatic shot of a U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber being attacked by a German plane, from the front and top. A B-17 being shot and burning. Footage includes occasional views of German pilots in cockpits pressing gun firing buttons on the control stick.
A U.S. Army jeep drives past a road sign reading "Nordhausen, Harz." American GIs are seen mingling with German town folk in front of the Hasselee Hof. Two American soldiers talk with German girls. One soldier points to a tag with letter "P" on one girl's coat. A U.S. soldier drinks a small glass of spirits poured by a German workman, from a large wicker-covered container. U.S. soldiers wash and shave by a tank in front of a destroyed building. U.S. soldiers with army vehicles parked in the town. U.S. troops walk along sidewalk in Nordhausen. Views of many destroyed buildings. (World War II period).
Troops of the U.S. Army 7th Armored Division pass by Westenfeld Germany. Townspeople at road side work to put out a fire using a manual pump on wheels. View of a German civilian holding the firehose and spraying water at a burning building. U.S. troops pass through on various military vehicles. U.S. troops march along a road. View of a large fire burning in the foothills above the road. Troops atop tanks and other vehicles pass. U.S. troops take cover in ditches along roadside. Smoke arises from the wreckage of a house in Westenfeld. An injured, burned pig hobbles out of a burning building. Civilians including men, women, children race to a water pump and work to extinguish the fire. (World War II period).
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