The Army Air Forces demonstrate a new method of towing gliders in Dayton Ohio. A tow-bar is used in place of the longer cable. A man attaching tow-bar to glider. Plane takes off towing the glider.
B-17 drone aircraft of the 509th Bombardment Group (bearing mushroom cloud Logo) is parked on pierced steel plank ramp, at Eniwetok (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok), Marshall Islands, during Operation Crossroads atomic tests. Airmen remove air sampling instruments from the aircraft that was exposed to the cloud during the Able Atomic Test explosion. They place them on a truck for analysis. One airman carries a cage full of birds, from the aircraft.
View from inside a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft in flight over Tunisia, during World War 2. Several Martin B-26 bombers in formation are seen climbing out below and then flying alongside the camera plane.. Views of the hilly terrain below. Setting sun, hills, and river seen toward tail and then over wing of the C-47 camera aircraft.
Lieutenant W R Hoffman, 63 Squadron, 56 Fighter Group, United States 8th Air Force, shoots at German FW-190 Aircraft in World War 2.
Major H E Comstock, 63 Squadron, 56 Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, engages German FW-190, at high altitude. Contrails seen. German aircraft is struck by gunfire and then, smoking, dives toward ground. (World War II period).
Lieutenant Abernathy, 350 Squadron, 353 Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, engages German FW-190 in aerial dogfight. His gunfire hits German aircraft in fuel tank which explodes. (World War II period).
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