The Royal Air Force ( RAF ) battling German Luftwaffe forces during the Battle of Britain in World War II. Aircraft in formation flight. Aircraft take off. Royal Air Force personnel prepare for a take off. A pilot in the cockpit of an aircraft. RAF Supermarine Spitfire aircraft taxi and take off. The Supermarine Spitfire aircraft attack the enemy airplanes during the Battle of Britain. Gun camera footage shows strafing of German ships from pilot POV. Damaged wings of an aircraft. A RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft drops bomb on a German convoy at sea. The convoy is destroyed. The Royal Air Force flag on a mast.
U.S. Air Force U-2 aircraft takes off from runway, and climbs rapidly.Next scene shows interior of a U.S. Air Force photo reconnaissance laboratory where films from U-2 aircraft are developed and are being examined by Air Force photo interpreters. Images of Soviet missile installations in Cuba are seen on the close-up images.
U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group, 36th Fighter Squadron on Morotai Island in Indonesia during World War II. A damaged gasoline trailer at a camp area. A bomb hole at the side the trailer. An ocean in the background. A United States Army Air Force B-24 Liberator aircraft comes in for landing. A jeep and a truck drive past over a rough road. Enlisted men take showers in open air shower area. A sign on a tree reads '36th Fighter Squadron'. The camp area under the trees. Men unload gas drums from a truck. A dispensary tent. A medic bandages the wrist of an enlisted man. A Red Cross sign and 'Dispensary, 36th Ftr Sq.' written on the tent. Operations and Intelligence building. A man enters the building. Another man at work in the building. A foxhole in the tent area. The helmets of the enlisted men on the top of the foxhole. The men put on the helmets.
U.S. soldiers at a camp in France during World War II. Wrecked Horsa gliders on a field and invasion markings on the gliders. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft parked on the edge of the field in the background. A gun emplacement in the foreground. A U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain taxis in the background while towing a U.S. Army Air Force CG-4 Haing glider. Personnel on the field in the foreground. An improvised operations tower and a personnel in the nose of the Horsa glider in the foreground. Wrecked gliders and parked P-47s. A small water tank on a trailer in front of an improvised shower in the nose of the Horsa glider. A soldier takes a shower. The chest of the soldier under shower. He dries himself under a heater. A soldier comes out of the improvised operations room which is in the nose of a glider. A soldier gets a haircut. He wears a camouflage cloth for cover. He is seated between the noses of two wrecked gliders. An operator in the front of the improvised operations tower speaks into a phone. Another soldier gets a haircut in the nose of the Horsa glider. The soldier cutting hair is wearing a medic armband. A wrecked glider. Invasion markings in the foreground. A C-47 taxis in the background towing a CG-4 glider. A P-47 parked on a runway.
United States Army Air Force aircraft taxi on a runway in France during World War II. A USAAF C-47 Skytrain taxis on a runway. The C-47 while taxiing raises dust. A parked C-47 taxis and insignia of the United States on it. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts parked on an air filed. A P-47 taxis forward for a take off. The aircraft taxis and raises dust. Dust in the background.
Forward air operations in France during World War II. Two Spitfire Mk IX aircraft, of 222 Squadron, RAF, with white stripe invasion markings on them, take off from dirt field, raising dust as they depart. Trucks drive over the field raising dust clouds. U.S. Army Air Force C -47 Skytrain takes off towing a United States Army Air Force Waco CG-4 glider. Wreckage of two Spitfires and a Tempest or Typhoon aircraft, in D-day paint, are seen on the field. An operator is shown, working in the mobile control vehicle.
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