Honor Guard in formation in front of SEAC (South East Asia Command) headquarters in Kandy, Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) during World War II. Car stops in front of SEAC headquarters. Guard takes picture of officer under tree. British Air Marshal Sir Keith Park exits out of car. Sir Keith trooping line of Honor Guard. Sir Keith walks into building.
National Air Race in Cleveland, Ohio. Open Stadium is packed with spectators. Al Wilson dons his flying helmet and flies a Curtiss Pusher replica, performing aerobatics, including an inside loop. Glider pilot Jack O'Meara performs for the crowd, landing in the grass and smiling for the camera. (Note: Flier Al Wilson was killed later during these same Cleveland aviation events, when his 1910 Curtiss plane collided with an autogyro during landing.)
Military Airlift Command Air Weather Service recon aircraft are shown. A B-57 taxiing; a C-135 in flight; a C-130 in flight. View inside C-130 showing crew stations and equipment. View of B-57 used for high altitude radiation sampling.
U.S. Army Air Corps Third Aviation Instruction Center in Issoudun, France during World War I. U.S. Army pilots aim machine guns at moving target consisting of an aircraft model traveling horizontally along a wire or string. The soldiers track the moving target with their machine guns. A student or officer shows one of the machine guns up close and demonstrates techniques to load and adjust the the machine gun on a tripod stand. Another student seated in an airplane cockpit behind the same type of machine gun. A target board used for target practice, with images of enemy aircraft in various positions, to simulate dogfight battle.
General activities at Eglin Field show preparation for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. U.S. General Doolittle stands with the pilots and talk. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell parked in the background. Crewmen work on the wheel of a B-25 and General Doolittle looks at them. A pilot looks out from the window of the plane. General Doolittle stands with a pilot and talks to him. Crewmen and pilot stand around a B-25. A B-25 inside a hangar. Crewmen seated on a trolley. B-25s parked in a line. A crewman on a ladder works on a jet engine.
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Almond B Doud Jr. and crew being briefed by Major Ralph W Walker, Airlift Command Post duty officer, at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand.
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