The U.S. Army Air Force Troop Carrier Command in Wau, Papua New Guinea during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force Troop Carrier Command personnel look through an equipment and make weather forecast. An observer plots on a sheet. Enemy airplanes in groups of three in a formation flight. The airplanes drop bombs over Wau. U.S. Army Air Force ( USAAF ) P-39 Airacobras in flight. Transport airplanes peel off and land at Wau.
Role of Air Service Command in keeping remote air force landing strips supplied in the European Theater during World War II. Air Service Command personnel uncover camouflaged bombs. A truck drives and stops. Personnel load bombs on the trailer of the truck. The truck loaded with bombs drives away. Drums are loaded on a truck. Medical supplies, ammunition, parachutes, food, sugar, potatoes and various crates of supplies to be loaded. A personnel stands guard. A convoy of trucks drives through an open field. A dust cloud rises. A personnel standing beside artillery. The trucks cross a water stream. The personnel moves the position of artillery. The trucks deliver tons of supplies at an airfield. Aircraft parked at the airfield. An aircraft takes off. The aircraft in a formation flight. The convoy of trucks is driven away after delivering the supplies.
World War II scenes of German Stuka dive bombers in operation. U.S. B-25 bomber in flight, and views of firestorms from Allied incendiary bombing of Axis targets. Scenes of the "Operation Firestop" project in 1954-55, in California. U.S. Forest Service and other agencies cooperate in a one-year project headquartered at Camp Pendleton, California. Aerial views of Camp Pendleton area, in Southern California. A modified Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber in flight discharges water from its torpedo bays. Men installing fabric water container into the bomb bay of the TBM. The aircraft seen in low level pass, dropping water contents onto field. Cropduster pilot Floyd Nolta, seen flying his Stearman biplane over California landscape, and then taxiing in to park, after landing. On the ground, we see how he modified his airplane to release water from a hopper in its bottom. On August 13, Vance Nolta flies the Stearman on multiple sorties, dropping water on a fire in the Mendecino Forest. Nolta filling his water tank from a hose at Willow Airport, and dropping water from the air, above the fire. View at Willow Airport, of 7 Stearman and N3N airplanes modified for aerial firefighting. Views of these aircraft dropping chemically treated water from the air. TBM aircraft equipped with 400 gallon tanks drop water from the air. PBY flying boat seen in flight. A B-26 bomber passing low and dropping chemically treated water. A U.S. Navy Martin Mars flying boat passing overhead. The aircraft drops water from a 7000 gallon tank.
U.S. aircraft attack Nazi submarines in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force airplane in flight over a United States convoy while it is underway in the Atlantic Ocean. A man aboard an airborne airplane sends a message after sighting a German submarine. A U.S. Army Air Force dive bomber takes off from aboard an aircraft carrier. A gun being fired at the submarine. Bombs being dropped. A bomb in mid air. Explosions occur at sea as two submarines are destroyed.
The ratification of unconditional surrender by Germany being signed in Berlin, Germany after World War II. Allied officers on the streets of Berlin after the end of World War II. Damaged buildings. A damaged hotel in the city. The Brandenburg Gate. Aircraft lined up at an airfield. Officers including United States Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder discuss with Soviet officers. German Marshall Wilhelm Keitel arrives for signing the ratification of unconditional surrender. German Army school building where the ratification would be signed. Allied flags outside the building. Officers arrive at the building. Soviet Marshall Georgy Zhukov inside the building. Marshall Zhukov at a table. German representatives Marshall Keitel arrives and takes his place with Commanding Admiral of the Kriegsmarine Hans Georg Von Friedeburg and other officers. Keitel signs the ratification of surrender. Marshal Zhukov also signs for the Allies and shakes hands.
Area being bombed in Germany after the Allied victory in Europe during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force Major and an Electrician's Mate. The Electrician's Mate looks through binoculars. A U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft drops bombs and an explosion occurs. P-47 aircraft drop bombs outside a German village as smoke and fire rise. The target area on fire due to the bombings. U.S. Army Air Force Major and the Electrician's Mate as the Major directing the bombing by handheld radio. The Electrician's Mate looks through binoculars. The P-47s drop napalm incendiary bombs over positions near farm land outside a German town. Smoke and fire rise.
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