Chiefs of Staff at a conference in Quebec, Canada. U.S. Army General George Catlett Marshall Jr. ; U.S. Air Force General Henry Harley Arnold; U.S. Navy Admiral William Daniel Leahy ; Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King, Commander in Chief of the United States fleet and others sitting around a conference table.
U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses in daylight bombing missions over enemy terrain in Europe during World War II. Interiors of a B-17 in flight. Crewmen at their stations. Views of industrial sites and ships in water below. Airmen with helmets and oxygen masks on. Heavy Flak bursts at the same altitude. Attacks by German Me-109 fighters. Waist gunner of B-17 firing at the German aircraft. A bombardier in the nose of the aircraft, at a bomb sight. Bombs drop from B-17s and hit the ground. The bombardier signals "OK". Heavy smoke from target area. B-17 gunners firing at German fighters. A B-17 hit in number 2 engine. Me-109s attacking. B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft that has been hit is seen falling, out of control toward the ground. A B-17 with smoke coming from number 3 engine and descending.
Remains of USAAF B-29 number 42-65283 from the 9th Bomb Group, 99th Bomb Squadron, that crashed, 30 March 1945, in World War 2, on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. All crew members were immediately killed in the crash, except tail gunner, Sgt. Joseph C. Trullo, Jr., who initially survived but died of his injuries, five days later, and the sole survivor, Radio Operator, Sgt. James Langraf who was injured but eventually recovered. Air Force personnel inspect debris that is scattered across the crash site in sand dunes close to the ocean in the background.
Wreckage after an Allied air raid in Hamburg, Germany. Soldiers and people watch a building in flames. Searchers probe into debris. Dead and wounded are removed. Corpses are laid out in a huge hall. Interior of a wrecked building. Wrecked statues. (World War II period).
Men work on printing machines in Italy. A man operates lino type machine. 'PWD only' written on the machine. Another man positions stereo type plate and makes one multiple plate for creation of propaganda leaflets to be air dropped in World War 2.
Ambulances in front of a military hospital. A nurse working with wounded soldiers in a hospital ward. View of wounded but now recovered U.S. Army Air Force soldiers punching a time clock to work at a bomb factory in Denver, Colorado. View of the qquipment yard outside the Colorado Building Supply Company or "COBUSCO". The soldiers and airmen serve as war production workers for 6 hours a day while their recovery continues. Workers work on bomb shell assembly in the arms factory. Some use welding equipment. View of completed bombs on assembly lines. Stacks of completed bombs being inspected before shipment.
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