Douglas B-19 aircraft taxiing for test flight and large crowd watching its first test flight. B-19 landing. Major Stanley Umstead, Commander of B-19 crew, walking with others and talking with a cigar in his mouth. (World War 2 era.)
Shows barrage balloons sent aloft, tethered with metal cables. Barrage balloons in sky and being tested at Wingfoot Lake, Ohio. (World War 2 period.)
Chief of Air Corps Ferrying Command Colonel Robert Olds talking to pilots. Shows American planes, Lockheed Hudson taking off and in flight to Canada. Royal Air Force officer examining map. American bomber plane B-24s taking off and flying to England for use by British forces as part of lend-lease program in World War 2. Point of view shot inside cockpit of B-24 aircraft flying low.
Views of U.S. Navy Cruiser 'Atlanta' sliding down an inclined slipway after being christened by author, Margaret Mitchell. Views of crowd at the ceremony. Atlanta underway at Kearney, New Jersey. Cruiser 'San Juan' launched at Quincey in Massachusetts and views of cruiser underway, shortly before World War 2.
B-17E bomber in flight. Close aerial views of aircraft flying in skies and clouds, soon after its introduction for use by British RAF and the U.S., early in World War 2
Men near gas cylinders to inflate barrage balloon. Views of men inflating balloons and raising it using winch. Narrator talking of every major U.S. city soon having such protection (early in World War 2)
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