Allied bombers bomb ground targets during Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II. Formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bombers over France. B-17s emitting vapor condensation trails (contrails). Gunners inside a B-17. Bombs fall over targets from B-17. Aerial view of exploding targets. Smoke billows up from exploding targets. B-17s in flight over coastal area. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber in flight over clouds. Allied invasion fleet heads for Normandy beaches.
Bomb being unloaded from cargo ship at Algiers harbor, Algeria during World War II. U.S. bomb dump shows stack of 500 lb. bombs in the foreground and bushes in the background. Bomb stacks nestled in bushes. Arab laborers and U.S. Army Air Force personnel load truck with bombs. Truck loaded with bombs moves down road leading to Rivet (large munitions dump). Laborers roll bombs onto a truck parked on the dock. Cargo ship in the background on dock. Bomb-loaded cargo net lowers onto quay of Algiers harbor. Arab dockworkers roll bombs. Bombs hoisted onto dock from cargo ship.
Training film based on recognition features of U.S. Navy F8U Crusader fighter aircraft, United States. F8U takes off from a U.S. carrier. F8U in flight. F8U lands on flight deck of carrier. Animation details fuselage section of F8U. Nose of F8U housing fire control equipment. Jet scoop under fuselage. Animation details wings, horizontal tail fins, and tall vertical tail fin of F8U. Side view of F8U shows fuselage, cockpit canopy, sloping windscreen, jet-intake below nose, tail pipe extending to aft fin. View of F8U from below detailing various sections. F8U in flight.
African American soldiers of the U.S. Army undergo a training in Astoria, New York during World War II. African American pilots, possibly Tuskegee Airmen, walk toward airplanes parked on an airfield. The airplanes take off. An African American pilot in a cockpit. A formation of airplanes. U.S. Army half tracks advance across a field and fire as they go. African American soldiers crawl and run during the combat training.
A Swiss Border guard walks toward camera, on the French side of the Franco-Swiss border crossing near Annecy, France, during World War 2. He confers with an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force. A tram arrives on the Swiss side and stops at the border. A large group of American pilots and crew step from the tram with their baggage. They are barred from moving further, by Swiss guards. But one man in a raincoat, walks past the guards and greets U.S. officers and an official, outside a customs office at the border. A Swiss border guard supervisor directs guards to move the flyers to a walkway. Another American Army officer arrives and greets those already there. The flyers being repatriated from Switzerland, walk en masse across the border and climb aboard a bus waiting on the French side.
Ruins of Sicily after Allied bombings done by U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. U.S. flags fly from ships in harbor. Bulldozer clears the bombed area. Rubble on street. Damaged buildings. Damaged ships in the harbor. Wrecked plane. Blast in a building.
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