An air power show in the United States. Aircraft flying in formation. The U.S. flag flying from a flag pole.
Damaged Nazi remains in Germany after World War II. Damaged building of the Ministry of Propaganda. Bullet scarred front of Deutches Reichbank. An eagle with a shattered wing on the top of the entrance to Reich Air Ministry building.
German invasion of Poland during World War II. Civilians run to save themselves as an air raid siren is sounded in Warsaw. An empty street car on a road. People in a corridor. After effects of bombing depicts damage caused to buildings. Debris and wreckage spread across an area. Wrecked German aircraft. A damaged building of a children's sanatorium. Blood stains on the floor. Dead Polish children.
After effects of German attack in Leningrad, Soviet Union during World War II. An air raid alarm being sounded in Leningrad. People on the streets. A man looks through binoculars. Aircraft in flight. Anti aircraft guns being fired at the Nazi aircraft in flight. Bombs being dropped and explosions occur. Antiaircraft guns fire and flakes burst. Nazi aircraft bombard the city at night. Search lights being flashed. Buildings on fire. Civilians remove debris and rubble. A dead Soviet child. Women cry as they mourn the death of their loved ones. Damaged buildings in the city. A dead elephant at a zoo. Animated map depicts how the Nazis surrounded the city.
A variety of airplanes parked at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan,at the start of the 1930 Ford Commercial Airplane reliability tour, AKA The National Air Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Red, White, and blue bunting decorates the airport building. In the distance, the Clock Tower, at Greenfield Village can be seen. Some pilots start their engines. At TC: 00:40 Nancy Hopkins, the only woman pilot in the event (and her own mechanic), is seen walking toward the camera, smiling and folding a paper. At TC:00:45, Aviator Jimmy Doolittle is seen standing by the leading edge of an airplane wing, with his hand on the pitot tube. Edsel Ford and an assistant control the start of airplanes, each at a specific time. They signal each pilot to start, using a white flag. The last plane seen taking off is number 22, a Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, piloted by Nancy Hopkins.
Aviatrix (Woman pilot) Nancy Hopkins, who was invited to fly in the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour, is seen in the cockpit of her Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, manufactured by the Viking Flying Boat Company. ("Kitty Hawk" is written on her plane's vertical stabilizer.) She has been assigned the number 22 for this event, which starts at the Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan. Scene shifts to A Waco CSO J6-7 airplane, serial number NC634N, taking off. A large formation of U.S. Army Boeing P-12 biplanes flies overhead. Crowd of spectators is gathered on ramp behind the airport terminal. The Army airplanes fly back overhead again. In foreground, a Ford Trimotor passenger airplane sits with its 3 engines running. Bill Stout of Ford's Stout Metal Aircraft Company shakes hands with Texaco Company's pilot, Captain Frank M. Hawks, in the cockpit of his Travel Air Model R "Mystery Ship," named Texaco 13. Photographer takes their picture. (Hawks is a tour referee, and about to depart for Grand Forks to make advance preparations there.) Mrs. Henry Ford steps up and also shakes Hawks' hand. He waves goodbye and taxis out for takeoff.
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