U.S. 8th Air Force air attacks against France during World War II. Aerial view of U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator aircraft in formation flight. A gunner mans a gun. On June 5, 1944 a B-24 airccraft releases bombs over Calais. The bombs fall in the English Channel. B-24 aircraft drop bombs to strafe enemy beach defenses on the coast of Calais. Billows of smoke rises after the bombs detonate. A convoy of Allied ships underway in the English Channel.
Japanese planes fly over a Japanese destroyer before WW2. A mock air raid in a Japanese city. Smoke-filled city during simulated air raids. Japanese biplanes in flight over smoke cloud. Japanese anti-aircraft machine-gun crew firing at bi-winged aircraft in low flight during air raid practice.
United States Air Force officers meeting. Chart at meeting depicts a United States Army Air Force’s MX-776 supersonic air-to-surface missile in flight.
Aircraft from the Imperial Iranian Air Force fleet includes United States McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Northrop F-5 fighter jets. A row of Northrop F-5 fighter jets at an airfield in Iran. Sign in English and Persian reads “31st T.F. (Tactical Fighter) Squadron”. Imperial Iranian Air Force pilots attend class. A map of the Middle East showing flight paths, radii, flags of the various Air Forces in the region. Flags and roundels of the Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon. A bomb is installed into a jet fighter-bomber. A fuze is fitted into the bomb nose. A man wearing a jacket with an “F-5 Iran” patch. Iranian military pilots run out of a building and board trucks.
General Henry H. Arnold (Hap Arnold) describes the role of the United States Army Air Force in the Pacific theater of World War II. Flags of the United States and the Army Air Force are seen behind General Arnold. General Arnold seated behind a desk with a nameplate bearing his name. A model aircraft is seen on General Arnold’s right side. “The Army Air Forces play an important part in winning the war. It is equally important to ensure our winning the peace and America remaining what it is today a leading the airpower in the world. You and every American play your part in maintaining the freedom and security which we have all fought by buying and holding bonds,” says General Arnold.
View of the training center at the Tsuchiura Navy Air Corps, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Buildings in the Imperial Japanese Navy Flying Department Practice Club. Exterior of Japanese cadet barracks at early morning. Japanese Naval Air cadets sleeping in long lines of arranged hammocks. Loudspeaker sounding to wake cadets. A man makes an announcement through the siren. Navy cadets rise from their hammocks at reveille. Cadets rolling and tying their hammocks. They put their rolled hammocks back into place. Japanese naval cadets jogging on the grounds of the Tsuchiura Navy Air Corps. Japanese cadets in formation at morning quarters. Japanese officer on platform giving commands thru microphone. Japanese cadets in formation singing the national anthem, Kimigayo. Japanese calligraphy inscription. Cadets in formation; open formation for exercises. Hundreds or thousands of cadets doing early morning exercises (taisou). Japanese sailor ringing bell near barracks.
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