United States Air Force VIPs and officers listen to a speech during the roll-out and christening of F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter aircraft in Saint Louis, Missouri. VIPs include Assistant Air Force Secretary (R&D) Grant L. Hansen and his wife, General William Momyer (TAC), General George Brown (AFSC), General Jack Catton (MAC), General Jack Merrell (AFLC), Lieutenant General George Simler (ATC), Lieutenant General James Stewart (ASD); Lieutenant General Otto F. Glasser (DC8) - R&D), Major General Benjamin Bellis (F-15 SPO), and Brigadier General Donald Nunn (USAF Contract Management Div). Cameramen record the event with cameras. Banner above cameramen and crowd reads “United States Air Force 25th Anniversary”. A United States Air Force official makes a speech. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter taxiing to display position on ramp. The pilot on the F-15 aircraft debarking. He shakes hands with Mrs. Iris Rose Hansen, wife of Grant L. Hansen.
Strafing of German targets by the U.S. 8th Air Force on Western front, especially northern Holland, Netherlands. Air Force plane in tactical operations. Gun camera footage of U.S. Army Air Force fighter planes out of Strasbourg strafing German held targets in northern Holland including railroad lines and trains. Explosion rises from a hit target. Another large explosion erupts from a target, possibly ammunition depot. Wing is shot and breaks off of incoming German airplane. More scenes of dramatic explosions as targets on ground are hit by American aircraft. Another German plane is hit and is seen falling from the sky. A parachute is seen ejecting one of the crew from the German aircraft. Enemy German held warehouses and other targets are hit by American aircraft strafing. Compelling and dramatic views of explosions including some where debris flies up in air toward attacking U.S. aircraft. (World War II period).
Blitz air attack on London by Germany during World War II, focusing on night attacks in October of 1940 during Battle of Britain. Goering and Adolf Hitler sit and discuss. A German aircraft takes off for a blitz night air attack on London. British soldiers observe through binoculars. British soldiers play chess and pool. A soldier looks at a map. German planes bombs on the British soil. People gathered at air raid shelter. Homes and business offices on fire. British people sleep on a platform of an underground railway station (Leicester Square tube station underground) for protection during bombing. Man emerges from Anderson Shelter (family air raid shelter) after bombing. People move through ruins of their damaged houses after the attack. British citizens eat at lunch counters and homes and talk. A couple walks towards a house. A man holds a broken mirror in his hand and talks to a woman. Views of cleanup underway in streets after attack, and numerous damaged buildings in England from Luftwaffe Blitz. British civilians traveling to work through debris in streets. British men and women workers at work in a factory.
Air drops during military operations in Burma in World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF) Douglas C-47 Skytrain in flight. The aircraft flies over an air strip below. Shadow of the C-47 on the barren strip. Green plains and hills. USAAF roundel on the aircraft wing. Air views of the topography. Tree covered hills and plains. The aircraft in flight over clouds.
Balloon and Airship schools ran by the U.S. Air Service at various places in United States. Several hot air balloons inflated at ground at a school in Port Omaha, Nebraska. Eight balloons launched in air, one of them rises high. Students at the Ross Field, Arcadia, California. A big observation balloon moved out of the interior storage by the students. They attach a basket to the inflated balloon. Gasoline driven winch releases wire and balloon rises high in air. The Airship ship School. Langley Field, Hampton Virginia. A dirigible ZDUS.-1at the school. Students haul the dirigible out of its hanger.
U.S. Airmen uncrate an AIM-4 Falcon heat-seeking guided air-to-air missile. Closeup as they remove it from its box. Next, an animated segment shows a fighter interceptor firing such a missile at a high flying bomber. it strikes and destroys the bomber. A Falcon missile on a test stand. It is launched for a short distance and then hits the ground. A brief animated segment illustrates an airborne missile being fired at another airplane, from a fighter aircraft. Glimpse of an Air Force aircraft dropping a parachute delayed bomb. A Convair F-102 Delta Dagger interceptor aircraft parked on a ramp. A MGM-1 Matador Cruise Missile being launched from a test stand. An F-102 interceptor aircraft taking off and in flight. It fires a missile straight ahead. Another F-102 firing a missile in flight, and a target drone tumbling to the ground and exploding. Airmen drive a forklift truck up to a parked F-102 aircraft, and remove a crate containing a Hughes AIM-4 Falcon missile. They remove it and place it in a firing test stand. A suspended net target in the desert is destroyed by a missile passing through it. Air Force mechanics work on an F-102 aircraft. A MGM-1 Matador Cruise Missile being fired. It travels some distance before breaking up. View of Matador Cruise Missile in flight. A drone target aircraft being struck by a missile in flight, and falling to earth.
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