British 8th Army takes Tripoli as Nazis flee Libya during World War II. A land mark. British Royal Air Force aircraft bomb Tripoli. The aircraft drop bombs and smoke rises due to explosions on a field. Commander of British 8th Army General Bernard Montgomery hoists the British flag over a captured German airfield. British ground crew near a captured German aircraft. A crew member paints the tail of the aircraft and covers German insignia with Royal Air Force insignia. A pilot exits a jeep and climbs into the cockpit of the re-purposed German plane, and takes off. British Army sappers locate, disarm, and collect German mines in Libya. Metal detectors are used by soldiers to locate a German Teller mine. Soldiers take out the Teller mine. View of hundreds of captured German land mines. A sign reads 'Safe Lane'. Trucks drive past on a road. The Medjerda River in Tunisian. British 1st Army soldiers near artillery. Aircraft in flight. A soldier signals and fires artillery. Smoke rises in the foreground. Dive bombers in flight. The bomber aircraft drop bomb. Hills in Tunisian. German soldiers fire guns. Soldiers on U.S. made tanks and trucks drive on a dirt road. A road side marker reads "Mateur" The aircraft in flight. British Douglas Boston bombers flying overhead.
The National Air Races at Curtis-Reynolds Airport in Chicago, Illinois. People crowd at the airport for the inaugural ceremony. U.S. aviator Colonel Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh arrive at the airport. An aircraft parked in the background. Commander of Air Corps activities Major Willis H. Hale looks into a paper and instructs ground crew. Chief Engineering Officer Lieutenant Walter E. Richard smokes a cigar. Army pilots are introduced to the crowd. Bombing airplanes parked at a field are warmed up. A close up of Commander of Pursuit Group Captain Victor H. Strahm. Aircraft parked in the background. Pursuit airplanes parked at the field. A close up of Commander of Bombing Squadron Captain Henry Pascale. Army Pursuit airplanes fly in formation and perform tactical maneuvers. The airplanes perform Fleur-de-Lis.
U.S. aviation pioneer General James Harold 'Jimmy' Doolittle sets a new air record for flying a passenger airplane from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in twelve hours. Doolittle and his wife seen looking at a map. They both board the waiting aircraft, American Airlines’ Vultee V-1A Special NC13770. 'Shell' oil company symbol written on the airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off from Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California. Aerial view of the airplane in flight over mountains. The airplane in flight over the clouds. The airplane lands at Newark Airport and taxis on a runway. Hangars and a building in the background. Doolittle exits the airplane with his wife at and greets people waiting. They pose for pictures beside the airplane.
Damage caused due to air raid by German Luftwaffe airplanes in Belgium during World War 2. Buildings on a street burn. A Belgian civilian woman with her children on the street. A building burns and smoke and flames pour from the building. The civilians on the street racing for safety. A building burns. Civilians and soldiers take refuge in an air raid shelter. The ruins of the bombed buildings. A dead civilian in the ruins. A dead horse lying on the street. The civilians walk in between the ruins. A wrecked car. British troops inspect the car. A truck carrying troops drive on a road. A truck tows an artillery piece. Old people seated on the side of the road. Civilian Belgian refugees on a trailer. Traffic on streets. A man and a woman refugee with their children ride a bicycle. The people evacuating the city. Vehicles move on a road. British troops advance in single file line toward the front as civilian refugees flee going the opposite direction on roads out of the city. People seated on grasses talk. The British soldiers carrying rifles advance.
Designer of U.S. fighter aircraft Igor Sikorsky sets a new record for hovering in air for 1:32 in Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter in Stratford, Connecticut. People stand around the VS-300. A three-blade rotor rotates. VS-300 raises up from the group. The VS-300 hovering in the air. The VS-300 lowers down on the ground. People cheer and wave to Sikorsky for setting a record. People stand around Igor Sikorsky. A man approaches Sikorsky to congratulate him.
Royal Air Force recruits in England. British civilians in London looking at a poster which reads 'Join the RAF and See the World'. A long line of RAF (Royal Air Force) recruits in civilian clothes march on a street. RAF recruits being issued uniforms. A British aircraft factory. Men at work at the factory. British aircraft parked on front line.
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