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Remote Controlled Television Glide Bomb with monitoring and control equipment attached with it destroys house after long glide.

Remote Controlled Television Glide Bombs. TV monitoring and control equipment mounted below the core of bomb. Airmen drag the cart with the bomb towards a B-17 bomber of the U.S. Army Air Force. Airmen attach glide bomb to the racks beneath the wings of the B-17. The long glide of the bomb faces its target. Massive explosion at target. The house is destroyed by the bomb. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036031
Glow Stabilizers and Radio Controllers attached to the tail section of a bomb to control the bomb during its glide.

A review of remote controlled weapons of the U.S. Army Air Force. A pointer marks deviations from the ideal of a bomb, gliding towards its target. Workers take out tail section of a glide bomb from a case and place it on a test bench. Assembling components such as Gyro-Stabilizers, which maintain vertical position of the Rudders of the tail. Release of bomb with rudders at a 45 degree angle. Radio Controllers attached with tail section . Worker operates control lever to control the movement of tail. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036033
Azon Bombs checked for military operations in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II.

Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. United States Army Air Force personnel unpacks the smoke flares from wooden boxes. Tests of flares and checks their continuity using some meter. In a laboratory a man removes gyroscope which controls the ailerons and rudder from a box to test them. He tests a radio receiver for frequency matching and then installs it in Azon Bomb assembly. Testing of the complete assembly and marking it as correct.

Date: 1945, January 11
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036036
Azon Bomb assembly checked and approved for military operations by technicians, China-Burma-India Theater of World War II.

Azon Bombs in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force technicians perform continuity and other tests on various components of Azon Bombs in their laboratory. The indicators and meter readings display the results of the tests. Technicians with badges on their uniform check and assemble a tail section of an Azon Bomb. Another technician fills the check sheet.

Date: 1945, January 11
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036037
Key enemy positions and supply lines targeted and bombed by United States Army Air Force, China-Burma-India Theater

U.S. Army Air Force attacks enemy positions in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. The target of the attacks are the railway tracks, roads and bridges built over a river which are the supply lines of the enemy forces. Bombs drop towards the target leaving a smoke trail behind them.

Date: 1945, January 22
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036046
High ranking German Generals taken prisoners by Allied forces, get into a C-47 transport plane at close of World War 2

Allied military in Germany after World War II. High ranking German prisoners move into a C-47 aircraft. Among the prisoners are German ace General Adolf Galland, ace German Luftwaffe pilot Hans-Ulrich Von Rudel and other officials. Officials smiling and talking with each other. General Von Rudel with one leg (peg on the other) walks using calipers.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036093