U-2 reconnaissance aircraft lands at McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida. U.S. Air Force technicians place tape in recorder and check the recorder.
A newsreel showing merchant ship building and role of merchant ships and liberty ships in World War 2. Launch of U.S. ship "SS Joseph N Teal" on September 23, 1942, just 10 days after its keel was laid at Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, owned by Henry Kaiser. A motorcade of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist and father of modern American shipbuilding industry. A huge gathering at the Kaiser shipyard in Portland for the launch of the merchant ship. Views of U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Cadets in officer training program practice emergency ship evacuation drills and diving drills. Civilian recruits in line at recruiting station to join the Merchant Marines. War production workers in factories and manufacturing scenes in war time industries, making bomber aircraft, artillery, patrol boats and tanks. War materiel loaded on railroad cars and cargo vessels. View in ship engineering area below including view of ship engine fires burning for propulsion. Sign on wall "Alert! Your skill and devotion will win the war." Views of the ship galley kitchen, wheel house and sailors eating food prepared by ship cooks. A world map is shown. Scenes of victory fleet ships unloading cargo at ports worldwide.
Student life in Frankfurt, West Germany after World War 2. Young men and women listen to a uniformed American soldier conducting class inside a classroom. A young woman asks the soldier a question. Various drawings are displayed on a wall behind students. Inside an elementary school classroom, a young German girl wearing braids stands up from her seat. Young girl reciting with her book in class. Young girl raises her hands inside classroom. A hand flipping through pages of a German book. College students follow a professor in a university corridor. German college students, some talking, waiting for class to start inside a lecture room.
View from U.S. Army Air Forces airplane flying low over a plateau overlooking Japanese town where fires are burning from prior strafing attacks, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, near end of World War 2. Pilot banks sharply flying over a burning building. Gun camera view of strafing attack on crossroads town already burning from earlier attacks. Strafing attacks on coastal town, with fires burning. Hazy view of area from higher altitude. View from the aircraft as pilot rolls it over the terrain.
Gun camera views from U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft strafing Japanese targets in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, during last days of World War 2. Pilot dives toward a settlement in a rural area, with guns firing. He then attacks a coastal town, from the sea. Fires seen burning in the town. He proceeds a short distance inland, where dense smoke billows from numerous fires already burning. He climbs up steeply to avoid the smoke. Next, he attacks a coastal town, from the land side. Fire is burning as passes over it. Final seconds show strafing rounds striking a tall structure in a built-up town.
A formation of four U.S. aircraft flies over a building at the Korean base of the U.S. 18th Fighter Bomber Wing, during Korean War. Two pilots check orders as they walk towards an aircraft. Close view of insignia on the side of the plane shows two concentric circles with the outer being dark and the inner white. The inner circle has a leaping Springbok painted in it. This is one of the P-51s of 2 Squadron, South African Air Force, flying with the U.S. 18th Wing, in Korea. A pilot shows bullet hole in the insignia and the tail section of the plane. Several men near an aircraft. A demolished P-51. A number of P-51s refueled on the ramp. People on the ramp. Several aircraft take off in the background.
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