French soldiers prepare for the attack during World War I in France. General Joseph Joffre confers with aides and orders for attack. Houses in the background. Soldiers behind barricades prepare for the attack. Air drills are used to make tunnels under German trenches. Soldiers at the compressed air station. Mines are planted and the trenches exploded.
People gather for an air show celebrating the 20th anniversary of Langley field, Virginia. B-18s parked on runway. Spectators stand in front of Administration building. Several Consolidated PB-2A airplanes of the 8th Pursuit Group are seen in the air. A flight of Y1B-17 bombers, from the 2nd Bombardment Group, flying low over the crowd. Several PB-2As are also flying low, when one of them suddenly dives towards the ground and crashes in front of the spectators. The pilot, Major Alfred J. Waller, is killed and the observer Sergeant John Johnston is injured. The Crashed aircraft aflame and smoke rising. Crash truck responds. People rush towards the plane.
German newsreel about the Invasion of Normandy region of France in World War 2. English narration overlaid on the newsreel by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. A German soldier looks through binoculars. Artillery units move forward. North American bomber flies over. German Anti Aircraft batteries in action. Bombers drop bombs. Wreckage in the city of Caen. German pursuit planes fly to break U.S. plane formation. Ruins in the city following bombing by Allied air forces. French refugee civilians leaving the bombed city. German divisions of tanks and mobile artillery underway. Allied armed divisions air troopers and paratroopers captured. U.S. Sherman tanks knocked out. Bullet holes in the tanks. German troops advance. Germans soldiers fire rifles, machine guns and rockets.
A U.S. Navy recruitment film about interest of high school female students in Air Service in the United States. A female student plays the piano. Her teacher talks to her. She talks about her parents and a career. A female ground control officer is interviewed about jobs for women in the Air Service. A woman ground crew member tells about the work she does. A crew member at a tug, tows a craft out of a hangar and talks about her work and experience. Two women crew members talk about men's views on women crew members and pilots.
Pursuit airplanes of United States Army Air Corps. Boeing 'XYIP-26', A single seater Pursuit Airplane is powered by a Pratt and Whitney 'SR1340-G' engine of 500 horse power. A taxi test of the air plane. A pilot sits in the plane and the engine starts. Planes with two engines in background.
Pursuit Airplanes of United States Army Air Corps. A Boeing P-12 Pursuit Airplane at Wright Field. Its engine runs . Insignia of the Air Corps. The plane taxis and takes off. It lands and taxis. 342 USAF 15324 DNS found by p12 in search
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