Footage of raids over Germany during World War II. United States Army Air Force Douglas A-26 Invader light bombers in formation as shot by camera aimed through canopy of airplane.
The German Swastika flag. Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and Commander of the Luftwaffe Hermann Goring inspect air raid damage in Berlin. Soldiers prepare to fire an antiaircraft gun. A gathering in Berlin. Hitler takes the stage. Military officers, dignitaries and soldiers at the gathering. Soldiers with flags. Hitler and other officers stand at attention. (World War II period).
UN air and ground forces advance in Korea. Black smoke from explosion on hills. UN planes in flight over Korean hills. Planes drop combs over enemy North Korean installations. Machine gun fire from an aircraft. An enemy MiG fighter aircraft is hit and downed by a UN plane. The hit plane goes out of control and descends to the ground.
Wounded U.S. soldiers evacuated in Tokyo. Wounded on stretchers being removed from a United States Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster aircraft. They are placed in military ambulances. Patients in the vehicle. Several medics get into the ambulances, doors are closed. Military bus ambulance pulling out with patients. Two soldiers lift a stretcher with a wounded man. He is carried to the ramp. Two soldiers carry a wounded man on stretcher along the ramp
Pre-flight inspection and pre taxi check of a U.S. Navy T2J-1 Buckeye trainer aircraft. The plane captain near the plane. Pilot in cockpit. The pilot gives the thumbs up plug in signal for air impingement. The captain takes the hose and attaches it to the plane. He checks the starting unit and returns the thumbs up signal when ready. The pilot checks and adjusts the fuel shut off valve, engine master switch, engine start switch, tachometers, advance power control lever, and the oil pressure gauge. He gives the captain the unplug signal. The captain removes the hose. The pilot now performs the pre-taxi check: radio equipment, captain removes the 3 landing gear safety pins, flaps extended, speed brakes opened, take off trim, circuit breakers and the altometer. He then conducts the inverter check, operates controls to check freedom of movement, retracts flaps and speed brakes, and closes the canopy. He calls for taxi clearance, gives the captain the signal, adjusts friction on power and control lever. The captain gives clearance, the pilot releases brakes and taxis maintaining steady speed. He completes the take off checklist before getting onto the duty runway. Receives clearance, aligns the plane and taxis. He checks the exhaust gas temperature, rpm, fuel flow and oil pressure. Raises nose of the plane off ground, raises landing gear when airborne, raises flaps, levels off and accelerates.
Views of the U.S. Army Air Forces fair hosted at Wright Field, near Dayton, Ohio, in October, 1945.The highlights of the event were exhibits of captured German and Japanese aircraft, rockets, and equipment. A German V-2 Rocket Motor on display. Soldiers observe the rocket. A German Junkers Ju 388 Störtebeker multi-role aircraft on display. A German Messerschmitt ME-262 Schwalbe fighter on display. A German pilot's victories recorded on the side of a plane. Two soldiers take a look at a Japanese Kamikaze bomb. One of them gets into the bomb seat. American officers and soldiers view the exhibits. 'Alles Kaputt' written on the side of a German Junkers Ju-290 bomber (one of the candidate aircraft, with further development, in Germany's Amerika Bomber project for a long-range bomber capable of striking the United States). Soldiers walk under the plane. 'Transient Aircraft' written on the control tower building in the background. (World War II period).
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