United States Ninth Airforce bombard European towns under German occupation during World War 2. Aerial view of clouds seen from a bomber’s open bomb bay. A man holding a lever inside a bomber. A United States Ninth Airforce officer on an airfield. Aerial view of a countryside in Europe. Smoke emanates over bomb sites.
Allied forces bomb French rail lines in Dreux, France during World War II. Animated map shows the location of Dreux, southwest of Paris. The 9th Airforce Marauders on Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers flying over the English Channel. Surface craft are ferrying men and material on the English Channel. Aerial view of the Normandy countryside with abandoned gliders. German aerodrome in Dreux. Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers dropping bombs over railroad tracks, highways, and communication lines in Dreux. Clouds of smoke form from aerial bombing of Dreux. 9th Airforce Marauders drop bombs over a highway junction southwest of Caen, Normandy. Clouds obscuring the target after bombs are dropped. Pillars of smoke rise from the target area.
Cars move on a highway in United States. A red 1967 Ford Country Squire station wagon car drifting. Automobile accident scene where a car hits a breakaway pole along Interstate Highway. Various safety features of modern highway illustrated including grooved pavement; breakaway light poles; Jersey bounce and bridge designs to keep car on the road; wide shoulders; emergency call boxes. An animation shows a car getting on the base of the side wall along the highway and back on the road. A man drives his car on the paved area along the highway and stops by a pole with a sign that reads ' Call Box' he makes a phone call. Image of cars on the highway in the side mirror of a car.
A semi tractor truck drives into an open air munitions storage area at the U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Numerous bombs are seen stacked behind bumker walls, and a flatbed truck trailer loaded with bombs is parked nearby. The airman driving the truck backs it up to the loaded trailer and hooks it up to his truck. Closeup of him making the necessry connections and then moving the trailer onto his truck and driving away. Next, a truckload of bombs is seen unloaded from a tractor trailer truck.
U.S. airborne troops training in hand-to-hand combat; scaling obstacles; crawling under barbed wire; and parachuting from C-130 aircraft. Paratoopers jump from aircraft and view of sky filled with parachutes and aircraft. Paratroopers landing on the frozen tundra in Alaska, and jumping from U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster aircraft, over the ice cap in Greenland. In February, 1956, U.S. Army paratroopers jump from Air Force C-119 aircraft during SEATO Operation "Firm Link," in Thailand. Civilians in Thailand watch the demonstrations, in which one of the paratroopers is forced to use his auxiliary chute when his main chute fails. Military General officers of Southeast Treaty Organization nations watch the demonstrations. U.S. Army airborne units practicing assault resupply techniques with NATO forces in Germany, supported by helicopters and light utility airplanes. Supplies being airdropped with parachutes to the resupply location. At Fort Bliss, Texas, a radio controlled drone plane equipped with a parachute (possibly a Radioplane OQ-14 or similar from slightly later generation), acts as a target for tank crews. When hit, the drone parachutes to earth. A different U.S. Army reconnaissance drone is launched from a catapult as a U.S. Army soldier stands nearby controlling its ascent with remote control joystick. Aerial footage shot by the drone is shown, revealing scenes on the ground useful to field commanders. The drone, with it's camera, returns to base and gently parachutes to be recovered.
K-loader behind C-5A, and moving to rear of aircraft at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand. Some officers stand at Air Base. Thais and U.S. Airmen, of 6th Aerial Port Squadron, pushing cargo pallets and jet engines on dollies from C-5A across K-loader and onto trailer. Men pulling cargo.
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