A dramatization detailing ASR (Air Sea Rescue) of U.S. 8th Air Forces crew members in European Theater during World War II. Rescue aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt fighters take off from English airfield. Airborne time is imposed on status board in control room by an officer. Same procedure is followed for PBY Catalina flying boat as it taxis and takes off from runway. Officer over phone notifies ASR. Planes head for their prearranged patrol points. High speed launchers and motorboats of British Royal Navy underway. Shows U.S. 8th Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress going down on water after being hit. Pilot contacts ASR in England and speaks about ditching of B-17. Fixer station located on the English coast. Electronic Position Indicator (EPI) antenna mast used in Bering Sea operations and antenna receiving bearings on B-17. Door sign reads Triangulation Room. Officers in room plot the bearings on B-17 on a circular map. Last position of B-17 is determined by the triangulation process. ASR controller giving out ditching position on radio to crew member of PBY Catalina. PBY Catalina flies low over water. Crew members of B-17 on raft underway. PBY Catalina overhead. PBY lands on water for rescue of B-17 crews. PBY takes off after the crew boards the plane. Rescue operation for another 8th Air Force plane shows a plane descending over water. Parachute descends over water.
Mock air raid in Japan. Japanese civilians leaving the streets of Tokyo during a mock air raid. Aircraft in flight. Japanese antiaircraft gun firing into the air during the mock air raid.
U.S. Air Force jets completes Atlantic Round Trip. U.S. Air Force aircraft lands after completion of a round trip circuit of two U.S. Air Force jet tankers Bravo and Alpha from New York to London. A man signals for landing. The pilot in the cockpit. Air Force personnel disembark the jet. Personnel are greeted by an officer.
1st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Delaware. Smoke rising from the ground. UH-1Ds helicopters flying in the air. 19 April 1968.
View of two small hangars of MCB-10 with Douglas A-4E Skyhawk tail section sticking out of hangar at Camp Shields in Chu Lai. HMS-12 maintenance shop built by MCB-10. Gear is stacked outside the building. Douglas A-4D Skyhawk in hangar.
Hospital built by MCB-10. Dirty ambulance jeep drives outside the hospital building, stops, backs down at doorway. Jeep is parked directly outside of the hospital doorway. Man on roof of the hospital building. Row of reefers near dry stores Butler building. Dry stores warehouse built by MCB-10. Supplies are sent to a parked truck by a conveyor belt. Supplies are stacked in mud near two buildings joined together.
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