A film based on getting U.S. supplies to China from Chabua, India during World War II. A dummy antiaircraft emplacement at Chabua airfield. Gun crew around artillery gun at the field. Drums are rolled out from railroad cars. Fuel is poured into containers from the drums. Indian laborers at work. Bombs at a munitions dump. Native laborers unload crates from a truck and load them into U.S. Army Air Force C-46 Commando transport aircraft parked at Chabua airfield. A trainer plane and an ambulance are loaded aboard a C-46. The laborers roll bombs into the aircraft. C-46 taxi on the airfield for take off. Fuel barrels at Chabua airfield. A USAAF C-87 Liberator Express transport plane lands at Chabua airfield. Supply crates loaded aboard the C-87.
A film based on supplying observation posts of the Allies in jungles of Assam-Burma frontier during World War II. U.S. soldiers on a lookout post in trees. U.S. troops wait for the supplies to be dropped by a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane. Native people look through binoculars. Signal crew lays a strip of white cloth. A man gives smoke signals. The C-47 lowers the altitude and drops parachute supplies. The airplane circles the area and more containers are released. Crates are gathered by men and supplies are taken to camps. The C-47 repeats the same procedure at the second and the third camp site.
A dramatization detailing the rescue by ASR (Air Sea Rescue) aircraft of a damaged B-24 Liberator bomber in European Theater during World War II. A B-24 bomber with number 2 engine shut down, in flight over water. Pilot of B-24 contacts ASR control room based in England. ASR controller contacts U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighters patrolling over sea. P-47s escort the B-24 to airbase in England. ASR methods showing PBY taxiing on water, high speed motor boat underway, and dinghies dropped by means of parachute from P-47s.
Activities of 8th Fighter Air Force Command in Germany during World War II. United States aircraft in flight. They target transportation system in Germany and destroy rail tracks and roads. An explosion on a German train on a railroad. Burning freight trains. U.S. airplanes drop bombs on German vessels in a canal. A German flag tower, radio and radar bases, trucks carrying ammunition and supplies are destroyed by United States aircraft.
A film titled 'You in Great Britain' on the history of Great Britain. A U.S. Airman enters the British Museum and views the Magna Carta. Magna Carta Island. Paintings of signing of Magna carta and of British monarchs, including Queen Victoria. Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, and the Thames River. U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Cartoons of Soviet System vs. Democracy. British soldiers in combat. Animated map showing U.S. Air Bases in Britain. U.S. Airmen in a theater watching the movie. Faces of various soldiers including African American and white soldiers as they watch the film in the theater.
U.S. aircraft at Anacostia Naval Air Station in Anacostia, Washington DC. United States Navy F4H Phantom aircraft parked at the base. A pilot walks from an Operations building towards the aircraft. The pilot climbs up a ladder to the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis on a runway and takes off.
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