10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment mission in Burma, during World War Two. U.S. Airmen talk in front of jeep bearing Letters "AJR" on its windshield.. They examine a map. Ground crew pull props through on B-25 Mitchell bomber and clean gun turret canopies. View of pilots inside cockpit of B-25 in flight over jungle. A jungle rescue team discusses mission in front of a Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter parked at field. Pilot, Lieutenant Carter Harmon, climbs into cockpit of the helicopter. Ground crew seen pulling props through on a B-25. Views from inside a B-25 flying over jungle. The object of rescue is is seen. (TSgt Ed "Murphy" Hladovcak of the 1st Air Commandos, piloting a Stinson L-1 Vigilant with three wounded British soldiers on board, had been forced down behind Japanese lines, several miles from Mawlu, Burma.) Two B-25s are seen parked on a rough field. A white tent is nearby and many Burmese people are seen. Airmen are seen around a B-25. Brief view of happy airmen inside a vehicle. (Note: This is probably the first use of a helicopter for a combat rescue. )
Trooping line Honor Guard in front of SEAC (South East Asia Command) headquarters during World War II. British Air Marshal Sir Guy Garrod walks down the steps of headquarter building followed by other officials. Sir Guy Garrod gives salute to Honor Guard. He reviews the Honor Guard. Lord Louis Mountbatten outside headquarters with Air Marshals, Sir Keith Park and Sir Guy Garrod.
Second battle of El Alamein in Egypt between Allied Forces and German Forces in October, 1942, during World War 2. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel discuss plan with two other officers. Map depicts movement of German Division from South. Royal Air Force pilots boarding planes. Planes take off from airfield. Formation of American planes over enemy. Antiaircraft guns fired. Aircraft overhead bombs German armor and troop concentrations. Infantry advances under artillery cover as tanks continue the drive. Heavy explosions in the battlefield. Explosions throw billows of smoke. Light tanks advance. Dead soldiers in battlefield. British Field Marshal General Bernard Montgomery watches advancing tanks. Marshal Erwin Rommel with his officers. Artillery fire continues with advancing tanks. British Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft bombs German armor positions.
Hot air balloons go aloft in Europe. A woman in the gondola of a hot air balloon floats upward into the sky. Several balloons go up in the sky. Occupants in the basket wave to the crowd on the ground. Men and women fly in gondolas of balloons.
British pilots in hospitals, England. A man gets out of a car and stands in front of a building. Several men stand in a room. The wounded members of Royal Air Force admitted in hospital quarters. Two pilots use crutches and sticks to walk. A doctor administers exercises to the pilots. Orphans and other youngsters wounded in blitz air raids by German Luftwaffe are also admitted. Children lay on beds. Nurses give a girl a mug of milk and she cries when it is taken away before she is done.
Clark Field, Manila, the Philippines, during World War 2. U.S. mechanics work on a Japanese Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber, painted in U.S. markings by the U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Air Intelligence Unit for the South West Pacific Area (TAIU-SWPA)
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