United States Army Air Force fighter planes and B-17 bomber aircraft seen in flight, including close-up aerial views looking down on B-17 in flight. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Hustlin Hussy” of the 385th Bomb Group in flight. Views of American bombing on the German supply lines outside of Rome Italy during World War II. U.S. planes bomb railroad marshaling yards near Rome. Allied forces cover the Mediterranean Sea. Explosions seen on ground as filmed from Allied aircraft over head. Fifth United States Army advance from the Anzio beachheads toward Rome. General Mark Clark in aircraft as he inspects the operation via aerial view. Close up views of General Mark Clark after he exits airplane to inspect operations. U.S. 5th Army troops on the ground bombard German positions with mortars and artillery. Explosions seen along German lines. American soldiers seen passing through small bombed-out villages in Italy. The town of Anzio heavily damaged after bombing. Group of Italian refugees greet American troops. German prisoners of war who have surrendered are marched in Italy, including many being marched double time. German prisoners marching, passing by a sign with arrow that reads “Military Police H.Q.”. They are seen being loaded into the same invasion ships that brought the Allied forces to Italy.
Aircraft of Carrier Air Group 9 (CVG-9), embarked aboard the USS ESSEX (CV-9), operating with Task Force 58, are seen returning from a strike over Tokyo, Japan, in February, 1945, during World War 2. They display the white double-diamond tail design of aircraft assigned to the USS Essex. F4U Corsair makes an arrested landing. Unusual point of view shot from rear seat, left side, of a Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft as it approaches aircraft carrier, turns, and comes in for landing on the carrier deck. F4U Corsair taxiing to deck edge elevator and lowered to hangar below. F6F Hellcat touchdown for an arrested landing. Pilots seen in the cockpit.
Air field being strafed. Plane dives onto runaway area. Large fire and explosion. Buildings seen. Smoke arising from Atoll. (World War II period).
SPAD fighter planes of French Air unit fly over German lines at Chaux in France during World War I. A plane flying low near the ground. Formation of Spad biplanes in flight. Several men seen standing as a man in the basket of an observation balloon rises up. A French pilot getting into the cockpit of a SPAD fighter plane. Change to a different pilot seated in the cockpit posing for the camera.
Mishaps during the shakedown cruise of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) in World War 2. A U.S. Navy F4U Corsair of VF-17, noses over but settles upright, while landing on the carrier. View from port stern of the Bunker Hill as she passes an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber from VB-17, in the water. The pilot and gunner climb over the sinking airplane to board their emergency life raft, already inflated next to the airplane. As the crew of the Bunker Hill watches, the air crewmen board their life raft, as the dive bomber sinks.
Curtiss P-40 airplane of the "Flying Tigers" with tiger teeth painted on its nose, early in World War 2. American volunteer airmen of the squadron loading belt of 50 caliber ammunition into the plane. A red warning flag raised above the plane as guns are tested on the ground. Flying Tigers pilots in their operations office. Closeup of American General Claire Chennault,adviser to the Chinese Air Force and Commander of the Flying Tigers. Pilots scramble to their aircraft and take off to engage Japanese planes. Eight P-40s flying overhead in a V formation. Aerial view of Flying Tiger P-40s in flight. Closeup view of Japanese Tachikawa Ki-36/55 airplane, in flight, with canopy open showing pilot in front cockpit and second crew member in rear cockpit. (Wheel pants are not installed on this aircraft, indicating it is a Ki 55 version.) View of a P-40 diving. General Chennault conversing with a Chinese officer. A group of pilots in flight suits and helmets walking away from the flight line after a mission.
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