U.S. Navy PB4Y Liberator patrol bomber aircraft with an aerial camera in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Air crewmen exit quonset hut. Air crewmen walk to PB4Y Liberator aircraft parked in the background on the island. Air crewmen enter PB4Y with aerial camera.
U.S. Army Colonel Keith K. Compton, commander of the 376th Bomb Group in Libya, North Africa briefs his Army Air Force aircraft crews for the first Allied bombing mission against the Nazi German ME-109 (Messerschmitt Bf 109) aircraft manufacturing plant south of Vienna at Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, in World War 2. The map that Colonel Compton is using shows the air routes to and from the target. The mission will commence early the next day, on 13 August 1943. An unrelated scene shows U.S. Army and Army Air Force men conversing with an Australian soldier in a summer uniform.
U.S. Philippine Department Air Force personnel assembling new Seversky P-35A pursuit planes at Nichols Field in the Philippines prior to World War II in the Pacific. These have Swedish roundel markings with 3 yellow crowns on a blue circle background, identifying them as J 9 aircraft for the Swedish Air Force. They were initially sold to Sweden as Republic EP-106 aircraft and redesignated as P-35A by the U.S. Army Air Corps. Because of imbargoes in place due to World War 2, in Europe, these aircraft were diverted to the U.S. Army. Mechanics push a Seversky P-35A (J 9) fuselage on the tarmac outside a hangar. Mechanics work on P-35 engine in the hangar. A sign reads 'Headquarters 17th Pursuit Squadron' at a tent bivouac area. Airmen talk outside a tent. Views from a car driving through nearby residential neighborhood of Ramaville. Two men in white suits with a woman on porch of a house Several P-35A airplanes flying low over the area. Airmen loading a car with baggage.
The United States Air Force in Myitkyina, Burma during World War II. The U.S. Army Air Forces P-51 aircraft takes off from the airfield. Planes flying in formation. Soldiers discus a map. An air controlled radio operator studies the locations and gives the information to the pilots. The enemy units on the banks of Irrawaddy river. The pilots bombard the target as per the information. The Myitkyina airfield is captured.
British forces along with the Chindits units in India as they plan for their operations in Burma during World War 2. A ground crewman holds a flag marking the place where an arriving American C-47A airplane should park on the Hailakandi Airfield, Assam, India. British Major General Orde Charles Wingate steps from the plane. He is greeted by U.S. Army Air Forces Colonel Philip Cochran, Co-Commander of the1st Air Commando Group, and other American and British officers. General Wingate, flanked by Colonel Cochran and another officer, gives a detailed briefing to Officers, about plans for Burma operations. Later, Colonel Cochran conducts an additional briefing for enlisted personnel of the 1st Air Commando Group. General Wingate inspects Chindits units. Wingate looks over map spread on hood of a jeep and discusses it with British staff.
Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States. Japanese carriers Kaga and Zuikaku underway at sea. Officers on the deck of a Japanese ship. Japanese sailors push airplanes on the flight deck of a Japanese carrier. A pilot runs down the flight deck to an airplane. Japanese officers being briefed on the flight deck. Japanese pilots run to embark their airplanes. Air 'boas' on the bridge of the Japanese carrier give a 'launch planes' signal. Japanese planes are launched from the carrier. A Japanese torpedo bomber in flight. The airplanes fly in formation and approach Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor burns under Japanese air attack. Bombs explode on Ford Island. (World War II period).
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