Mechanics repair damaged Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers during World War II. United States Air Force bombers flying in formation. Closer view of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber with its damaged engine, wing and nose. A mobile workshop trailer truck carrying United States air corps mechanics arrives beside a damaged B-17 aircraft at an airfield in England. A cartoon with words “Which way’d he go Sheriff?” and “Air Corps- U.S.” designed on mobile workshop trailer truck. Mechanics lift the plane by inflating balloon jacks and work on the damaged aircraft. Groups of mechanics repair engines of damaged bombers. Another B-17 Flying Fortress makes a belly landing without landing gear and skids to a stop. Pilot and co-pilot crawl out of the plane.
British Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber aircraft drop bombs over German targets during World War II. Bombs impact causing a pillar of smoke to rise up. United States Army Air Force 8th and 15th Air Force using B-17 bombers attack the industrial town of Pforzeheim at night. British Lancaster bomber aircraft also assist the American forces, destroying the city completely.
German soldier looks through binoculars at American aircraft flying overhead in Germany, during World War II. German Army soldiers receive call about incoming aircraft from within their underground bunker and run, quickly mobilizing out from their bunkers to man their artillery guns. German anti-aircraft long range artillery guns firing at planes of U.S. Army Air Force. Nazi Luftwaffe fighter planes take off and attack United States B-24 and B-17 bombers. Large number off incoming U.S. aircraft in formation. Aerial gun camera views of dogfights between German aircraft and U.S. Bomber aircraft from view of German aircraft, including close-range air combat. United States B-24 is shot by Germans, suffers explosions in mid-air and crashes to the ground.
Film made in 1946 recounts use of RADAR in World War 2. Air raid sirens sounding in London, England,1940, during Battle of Britain. Air raid warden helps people to shelters during blitz bombing run by German Luftwaffe aircraft. German He 111 bombers in formation overhead. Woman scoops up child. British gunners man a 3.7 inch antiaircraft gun. Farmer rides horse-drawn plow. RAF airman rings alert bell that reads: "Don't come and tell.Ring this like hell." RAF pilots scramble to their Spitfire fighter planes and take to the air from a British airbase or aerodrome. German He 111 bombers being intercepted.Wreckage of German bombers. Evening views of London. Prime Minister Winston Churchill contributing to a war drive and receiving a pin from a woman. He doffs or tips his hat. Technician using a slide rule. Early British radar antenna tower. A U.S. P-38 aircraft in flight. Animated diagrams explaining how radar works. Radar operators at their screens receiving radar transmissions. U.S. Army soldier operating antiaircraft radar in the field. Antiaircraft gun firing and downing an airplane. Artllerymen decorate gun barrel with symbols for enemy aircraft downed. A U.S. B-29 bomber in flight with bomb bays open. Bombardier with bomb sight having radar and optic options, using radar to sight target. Bombs away view of bombs falling from aircraft through clouds. A U.S. P-61 night fighter aircraft equipped with airborne radar. Hand of pilot of P-61 pressing button to fire on enemy aircraft at night. A C-47 transport aircraft flying in poor visibility makes a ground controlled approach and landing enabled by radar. A U.S. Navy F6F landing with radar help, on an aircraft carrier. A U.S. battleship. Sailors quickly get up from sleeping bunks responding to battle stations at night. Radar antenna rotating on a U.S. warship. Naval guns firing at night. U.S. heavy cruisers bombarding a shoreline. A submarine underway submerged. Navy ship tracking enemy submarine. Destroyer firing depth charges. A PBY Catalina flying over a convoy of ships.
View of military helicopter in the sky. 56th Special Operations Wing personnel train Royal Laotian Air Force personnel. United States Air Force instructor uses map and compass to train Laotian student and forward air control techniques on mountainside above target range. Laotian student talking on radio hand set. T-28 bomber maneuver over valley and fire rockets. Rockets explode on target range in forested valley.
Wendell Wilkie waves from the top of the boarding ramp by his Douglas DC-3-178 - American Airlines Flagship-Virginia, acknowledging people greeting him at the new Vultee aircraft plant in Nashville, Tennessee. An African American man in uniform stands by as Wilkie descends the ramp. Scene shifts to a sizeable crowd waving from behind a fence on the airfield. An aerial view shows the factory and its airfield. Closer view of factory building itself. Next, a huge crowd is seen behind a fence, where a Vultee P-66 is displayed on a stand above the fence. It bears a British Royal Air Force roundel on its fuselage. U.S. Air Army Air Forces Officers and some Boy Scouts pose in front ot the aircraft. Wendel Wilkie is seen next, at a speaker's stand arrayed with microphones. It is decorated and displays the Vultee company Logo. Special guests in front of the stand, are seated on folding chairs. Closeup of Wilkie. Company officials are seen on a platform next to a Vultee P-66. Closeup of two young girls on the platform. One wields a bottle of Champaign to Christen the plane. Spectators applaud. A P-66 takes off from the airfield and climbs away.
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