Naval air cadets (parachute students) pass their exams in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Naval air cadets board the Blimp K-1 as part of graduation maneuvers. The K-1 takes off. The K-1 in flight. Cadets are sitting in the K-1. Cadets jump from the K-1. They open their parachute and descend. Cadets land on earth. No student fails.
55 persons killed in a Korean airplane crash near Seoul, South Korea. A South Korean Air Force C-46 transport plane crashed in a slum area. Smoldering rubble at the crash site. A girl cries. Smoking rubble. Firemen, police and air force personnel search for people.
The first mid-air refueling at Rockwell Field in San Diego, California. 1st Lieutenant Virgil Hine and 1st Lt. Frank W. Seifert pose next to the cockpit of a modified United States Army Air Service Airco DH-4B. Workmen repair a hose under the fuselage of the modified DH-4B tanker aircraft. A workman pulls the hose out from under the aircraft. A second DH-4B aircraft in the background. The modified DH-4B transfers fuel to another modified DH-4B via a hose between the aircraft. Wings of DH-4B camera airplane. The modified DH-4B tanker with the fueling hose trailing behind it. Two modified DH-4Bs. The tanker aircraft with the hose trailing below it moves away from the fueled airplane and flies away.
An air raid by the United States Army Air Force on Kyushu, Japan during "Operation Downfall"of World War II. A Japanese aircraft in flight with a burning starboard engine. Mountains in the background. The Japanese two engine aircraft on fire. The starboard engine blows up.
An air raid by the United States Army Air Force on Kyushu, Japan during "Operation Downfall" of World War II. Rockets fired at Japanese installations as seen from aircraft cockpit view. Mountains in the background.
United States 9th Air Force reactivated at England during World War II. Sign on door reads "Commanding Generals War Room". United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), Lieutenant General Lewis Hyde Brereton delivers a speech to the high ranking officers around a conference table. Maps placed on the wall in the background.
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