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Test flights in California of Douglas Skyrocket D-558-2 and Acme Aircraft Co S-1 Sierra
Airplanes during test flights at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The airplanes can fly at an enormous speed. U.S. Navy Douglas Skyrocket parked at an air base. Test pilot Scott Crossfield (Albert Scott Crossfield) inspects the needle nose of a D-558-2 Douglas Skyrocket aircraft. Aerial views of the D-558-2 Skyrocket airplane in flight. Scene changes to an airfield in Inglewood California. A new light pusher airplane with an X-shape tail, the Acme Aircraft Co S-1 Sierra, is being rolled out of a hangar. A man stands nearby and looks at the airplane. A pilot in the cockpit. The airplane takes off from the air base for a test flight.
Montage of World War 2 scenes from all theaters of Allied operations and scenes of the U.S.A.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
U.S. Navy personnel fire AA guns and USS Lexington (CV-2) underway and hit during Battle of Coral Sea
Activities of U.S. Navy personnel underway in the Pacific Ocean on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers during World War II. Officers seated at a conference table discuss plans as one officer writes on chalk board. An aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific. This is likely the USS Lexington (CV-2) or the USS Saratoga (CV-3). Sailors gather near an aircraft parked on the flight deck. Sailors working in the radio room of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. U.S. Navy and Japanese enemy aircraft flying overhead during the Battle of the Coral Sea. A smoking ship in the distance following attack. A sailor watching the enemy aircraft through binoculars. Huge splash in water behind U.S. Navy ship during attack. Sailors firing anti aircraft guns from the ship. Flak bursting in the sky. Pilots in cockpit of a U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless on flight deck. U.S. Navy F4F-3 aircraft (Grumman Wildcat) parked on the flight deck of a carrier. Explosion followed by smoke billowing upward as the USS Lexington (CV-2) is hit by torpedoes from Japanese torpedo bomber aircraft. USS Lexington is seen listing to port, smoking, and on fire. (Audio narration present only on a brief part of clip.)
United States B-50 Superfortress with Bell X-2 takes off from the runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. U.S. Air Force B-50 Superfortress parked on runway as sunrises in the background. Test pilot Lieutenant Colonel Frank Everest's wife kisses him before he leaves his home. He gets into his blue coupe (1933 model). Frank Everest dons pressurized space suit. Ground crew members help pilot to wear his helmet. Pilot and co-pilot seated in the cockpit of B-50 Superfortress. Officer speaks over a mouth piece from the control room. B-50 Superfortress taxis and takes off from the runway with U.S. Air Force Bell X -2 under its wing. U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre flies along B-50 Superfortress. Bell X -2 releases from the mother aircraft and begins a solo flight. Ground crew members look through binoculars.
Activity in the control room and Bell X-2 in flight along with chase planes at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Official marks on the telemetry recording paper with lines on it. He turns the dial on front of the telemetry recording instrument. Woman types on a typing machine. Print on paper read 'Air Force Lt Col. Frank K Pete Everest flew Bell X-2 research rocket plane 1900 miles per hour last week, nudging close to three times the speed of sound'. U.S. Air Force B-47 aircraft in flight. U.S. Air Force F-104 A Aircraft in flight. Three F-1004 aircraft in flight. U.S. Air Force F-84F aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. U.S. Air Force Bell X-1 parked on ground. Pilot gets into cockpit of Bell X-1A aircraft. Bell X-2 on static thrust as engine is fired during a test.
U.S. 2nd , 4th and 27th Infantry Division troops advance with tanks on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.
U.S. forces battle against the enemy on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Animated map shows southern territory occupied by U.S. forces. 2nd and 4th Infantry Division troops advance on a field. The map shows the positions of 2nd, 4th and 27th Infantry Division on Saipan.
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