Mission over secret enemy dispersal base: bombing in Beauvis, France. U.S. Army Air Force bomb group in flight to hit bombs over target. Aerial views of targets in city. Smoke rises over targets. (World War II period).
Recon Marines from 1st Force Reconnaissance Company Test Unit 1 demonstrate free fall parachuting. A sign identifies the Auxiliary Landing Field at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California. (Narrator refers to the marines as para-scouts of the 1st Marine Division.) The marines, wearing back and chest parachute packs, board a U.S. Navy Grumman S2F aircraft with tail code "RZ" and number 136777. It taxis on the ramp and is next seen taking off from the runway. Two helicopters are parked on the airfield ramp. Next, viewed from the aircraft, a marine is seen in free fall. Soon he appears as only a speck , approaching the ground. Next, he is seen, from the ground, as his chute finally opens, and he lands, and begins to spill air from his billowing chute on the ground.
P-38 planes over German targets. U.S. Pilots destroy enemy targets by firing aircraft machine guns. A P-38 plane pilot contacts U.S. Air Force Base for crash landing. P-38 plane hits the surface and burns. Other P-38 plane contacts for emergency landing. Ground officers observe the burned P-38 plane. (World War II period).
The return of the Barbarigo submarine to an Italian Atlantic Naval base. Barbarigo inscribed on a submarine. Measurements of Maryland and Mississippi submarines and dates written on hull of submarine. A band playing on ship. Formation in air by planes. The barbarigo submarine comes. German and Italian sailors greet officers and crew of Barbarigo. Italian ambassadors, Alfieri and Buti, together with Admiral Donetz are the first to congratulate.
United States Army Air Force at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. Mechanics on hoist work to repair engines of a B-29 bomber while other plane takes off. Man rotates the fan of engine to check its condition. Airmen talk near the planes. Hoist kept in a jeep and then mechanics stands on it to reach the engine.
United States Army Air Force at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. Wrecker truck and other vehicles on the runway. Mechanics on hoist, work to remove engines of a B-29 bomber which crashed while take off. One mechanic sets the hoist at right position beneath a wing of the bomber. Another mechanic on hoist tries to get the belts of hoists.
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