Flying Tiger's Fighter Plane Curtiss P-40 seen. General Claire Chennault receiving the distinguished Service Medal from Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell in front of (AAF) American Air Force Headquarters at Kunming in China. A group of AAF soldiers standing behind General Claire Chennault. A map of China with Chinese symbols on the side. (World War II period).
British European Airways flight 609 airplane crash near Munich kills champions of Manchester United Soccer team. Wrecked aircraft of the Munich Air Disaster is seen off the runway at Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany. Men standing near the wrecked plane. View of a news stand in England, United Kingdom, where British people are buying newspapers with news of the aircraft crash. Photograph of the players of the football team. Twisted wreckage of the plane seen covered in snow. A nearby home partially wrecked in he crash. Two officials walking around the crash site.
In Los Angeles the first electronically controlled all-automatic factory with a production line of machine tools doing precision air craft work under control of an electronic computer. View of computer controlled production automation system developed by Hughes Aircraft Company. A label reads "Hughes Production'. A woman is seen working on a keyboard. A man is seen encoding instructions to the computer and threading a punch tape onto a tape reader of the early computer system.
Newsreel ' Pin point Para-jump in Paris'. World's championship parachute competition in Paris. Several parachutes in air. Jumpers from nine nations vie for a cloth target on ground. A double leap by a husband and wife team.
A British police officer (or "Bobby") directs traffic through thick fog pollution (sometimes called "London fog" or "Pea soup fog") in England, caused by burning of soft coal. Next seen shows a British man trying to walk against a heavy wind on an icy sidewalk with difficulty. Rain and ice are shown streaming off a roof top, and a man in a raincoat runs for cover on the streets of Britain. View of exterior of an Air Ministry building, and then of technicans inside using modern computers and tape reading devices to monitor and forecast weather for Britain. A man unloads a reel of data tape from a machine and loads it into a tape reader. View of hands on switch board of early computer device. Automated printer prints reports. Weather forecasters sit at a table together viewing weather pattern maps and hand drawing other weather maps. Seen returns to outdoors during a storm. View of a woman dropping some items that slide away from her on an icy sidewalk. She slips and slides on the ice behind them. Two other women are showing trying to walk on the ice. One woman falls down on the ice and high winds blow the other woman forward as she runs across the ice and then falls.
A view of damaged homes, churches, hospitals and schools in Germany during World War II. buildings Wrecked due to air raids from Britain are seen. German soldiers making preparation for a counter attack. Nazi German war planes taking off. German planes bombing Britain. Smoke is seen. Pilots at the controls in the cockpit.
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