View from cockpit of WB-29 aircraft, from 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight, on final approach to runway 30 at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. The sun has almost set and the runway lights are lit. The camera stops filming at touchdown. A dropsonde operator seated inside the aircraft. He records telemetered information in a form. The hand of the dropsonde operator as he releases the dropsonde from an airlock. Officer in makeshift office sitting in front of a wrinkled map. Arrows on map highlight Eastern U.S. Interior of B-29 aircraft. A flight engineer making notes in a log. Navigator checking a Loran set and marking information on charts.
Vertical panning view of radio tower at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. Mockup of a civilian broadcasting studio. A U.S. airman in mufti acts the part of a weather broadcaster delivering news of a storm. View of large wall clock.
Weather chart shows a hurricane North of Cuba and East of Florida. A pointer outlines a flight pattern planned for USAF Hurricane Hunters of the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight to penetrate the storm, from their base in Bermuda. A navigators pocket watch placed on a map. A captain of the 59th Flight briefs crew members about the mission. Diagram of the storm track is sketched in chalk on a blackboard behind him. He uses a pointer to highlight information on a weather chart. An officer seated in the front row steps forward to further explain some aspects of the weather chart. The group rises and leaves following the briefing. Another sequence shows the briefing from behind the speaker's podium. Closeups of the crew members.
A film on the Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) during World War 2 in the United States. Oveta Culp Hobby takes the oath as the Director of the WAAC. U.S. Army General George Marshall standing nearby. The members of the WAAC march. Officers review the parade. Women in various jobs in the United States. Women enter a WAAC recruiting office. The women lined up at the office. They talk to a receptionist. They fill out applications, take physical examinations and then take an oath of service.
A film on the Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in the United States during World War II. WAACs parade at the end of their training period. Officers review them. Recruits stand at attention and are ready to serve the army. An officer seated at his desk in an office. A woman stands nearby. A woman driving a jeep. Another woman repairs a jeep. The WAACs prepare food for soldiers. Animated map locates work areas of the women. A train passing on a railway track. Newly assigned WAACs arrive at their quarters. Ships in a harbor. The first WAAC detachment in North Africa. Clerical, technical and other types of work done by the WAACs. They work with soldiers. They draw military maps and charts. Group of African American women soldiers relieve African American male soldiers working as switchboard operators. Women are shown serving as dispatchers, as typists, developing film in photographic laboratories, serving as pigeoneers who handle carrier pigeons used in war communications, serving as radio operators, issuing clothing in quartermaster houses, working in post offices, fingerprinting, and collecting rations at a commissary. Female African American soldiers and and female white soldiers work at a motor pool. The WAACs marching.
U.S. Navy's pogo-stick airplane in California, United States. United States Navy Convair XFY Pogo airplane parked at an air base. A pilot and a co-pilot in the cockpit. The boarding staircase is removed. The airplane takes off vertically. The airplane in flight. Landing of the Pogo aircraft.
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