Scenes at the U.S. Army Air Corps 365th Fighter Group and 368th Fighter Group base at Chievres Airfield (A-84) in Chièvres Belgium, during World War II. Mechanics changing wheel and tire on a P-47 thunderbolt airplane. P-47 named "Mortician's Delight" is seen (Lt. Neal Worley of 387th Squadron). Olive drab razor back P-47 and an shiny aluminum P-47 with bubble canopy, parked on a hard stand with maintenance equipment around them. Maintenance truck with "Hard Luck (T.S.)" painted on its back. Mechanics performing maintenance on several P-47s. Runway controller with signal light at side of runway, with P-47 landing and one waiting to take off, in the background.
World War II P-47 aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) take off and land at Chievres Airfield (A-84) in Chièvres Belgium. Airplanes take off from the muddy air base. Trees in the background. Second plane landing has nose art that is difficult to read, but the aircraft serial number 42-76114 (which was piloted by George Swink of the 396th Squadron. Swink's aircraft was downed by flak on 25 December, 1944 and his status after was POW). Various scenes of P-47 Thunderbolts taking off and landing.
French soldiers collect German abandoned equipment in Verdun, France during World War I. Soldiers in a trench. The wrecked equipment of Germans scattered in the battlefield. Ruins of a German base. German prisoners of war walk. French soldiers walk along with them.
People gather to watch air show commemorating 20th anniversary of Langley field, Virginia. Long line of P-12s parked with engines running on the air base ready for flight. Crew members rush towards the planes. Y1B-17 bombers, from 2nd Bombardment Group, move slowly along taxi strip toward the runway. One of the B-17B takes off. Nine B-17Bs in flight in echelon formation. PT-6 lays a smoke screen. P3-2As and PB-2As, of the 8th Pursuit Group, fly low over the field. Suddenly, one PB-2A dives and crashes into the ground, and burns. Smoke arises from the crashed plane. (Major Alfred J. Waller is killed in the crash and his observer, Sergeant John Johnston is injured.)
The NVA (North Vietnamese Army) invasion of South Vietnam. Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops on the streets of Hue, Vietnam. People walk on the street. Houses and trees in the background. ARVN tank moves on the road. Soldiers in the ARVN compound. Children playing. The ARVN truck convoy lined up on a street. The truck convoy on a highway. Mountains and trees in the background. The troops dig in at the base headquarters. Barbed wire entanglements on the ground. (Vietnam War period).
People dig in the sand and take out chunks of a bad-smelling substance, they believe is ambergris (a valuable perfume base, worth about $100 an ounce). They hold chunks of the material in their hands and happily pose for pictures on the beach and in their homes. (Note: although initially identified by a laboratory, as ambergris, the substance was soon determined not to be. Rather, it was found to be some sort of waste material, and was identified as waste from offshore shipping, by the Marin County Department of Public Works. New York experts described it as a vegetable substance, and other suggestions were made. But all authorities agreed it was not ambergris. Thus, the excitement quickly waned and life in Bolinas Beach returned to normal within a month.)
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