F-80s and F-86s on test stand in the United States. Pamphlet on jet propelled aircraft, stamped 'Secret', held by Air Force officer. Interior of office building, Air Force officer talks to civilian contractor. Drawings of F-80 and F-86. Interior of laboratory testing of hydraulic equipment. Equipment is mounted on test stands, meter registers 3000 lbs. per square inch. Cold weather test is being conducted on hydraulic equipment in laboratory. Technician, wearing heavy protective clothing, removes section of landing gear hydraulic system from hydraulic section of landing gear in the cold weather test chamber. USAF jet fighter F-80 Shooting Star lands at Wright Field. Technician checks landing gear wheel of an F-80. Unsatisfactory report on the wheel of the F-80 is turned in. F-80 landing. Two Air Force project officers discuss aircraft performance. One officer pointing to the wheel location, end of wing and fuselage of the F-80. Testing of wheel for the USAF F-86 Sabre in test stand. Interior of laboratory building showing wheel test instrument panel. Views of test and recording charts in operation. Stationary F-86. F-86 in initial flight, wheels down. F-86 landing at Muroc AFB.
U.S. soldiers carry wounded patients (prisoners of war rescued by U.S. Rangers on Luzon) from air evacuation C-46 airplane, on stretchers, and transfer them to ambulances, at Tacloban Field, Leyte, Philippines during World War II. The ambulances are driven away. Ambulatory former prisoners disembark from a United States Army Air Force Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft. Interior of the C-46 air evacuation airplane shows wounded on bunk beds. The wounded are carried from the C-46 aircraft. The ambulances drive on the airstrip. Aircraft in the background.
United States 5th Air Force transport services in the South West Pacific theater during World War II. A mobile hoist loads a large aircraft engine in a United States Army Air Force CG-4A Haig glider named 'General George'. Australian troops unload field artillery and jeeps from a United States Army Air Force C47 Skytrain transport aircraft. The CG-4A Haig glider towed by the C47Skytrain aircraft.
Recovery of the USAAC Keystone LB-7 bomber aircraft in Bluefields, Nicaragua. A crew member checks the remains of the United States Army Air Corps Keystone LB-7 bomber aircraft. Other members of the crew stand near the helicopter. Major Blackburn in the cockpit of the United States Air Force CH-3C Sikorsky helicopter Air Force C-47 parked in background. The Major gets out of the helicopter with an aircraft part and walks towards the damaged aircraft. The Major and the recovery team inspect the LB-7 aircraft remains.
International Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Cadets Exchange Program in Maryland,United States. Sign board reads Department of State,320 21st Street North West. Foreign cadets attend reception. They shake hands with United States Air Force Lieutenant General Joseph Smith. General's wives shake hands with the group. United States Air Force General Lucas Victor Beau and General Smith shake hands with foreign cadets. Flags in the background.
From a 1952 U.S. Army television program titled The Big Picture. U.S. troops in a fox hole in Korea. A U.S. tank carrying many GIs in Germany.US ski troops in Alaska. Amphibious training on beach in Puerto Rico. United States Army Sergeant James Mansfield introduces the story of United States Seventh Army in the Allied Invasion of Southern France, "Operation Dragoon." Army Colonel William Wilson Quinn seated in office, with army rifle on his desk. He refers to the "Blue Badge" which is the Army infantryman's badge. Then he introduces the story of the Seventh United States Army: On 14 August 1944 Bay of Naples is seen as an open air Marshalling area. Barrage balloons float above the area. Large landing ships sit at dock with their front loading doors open. 3rd,45th and 36th division combined into 7th United States Army. Mechanized war equipment being loaded and checked off the loading chart. 7th army soldiers march through streets. Red Cross workers distribute donuts. Soldiers board ships. Ships leave harbor to join convoy. Ships docked at the West Coast of Corsica. Officers meet for conference aboard ship. Men attend last minute details. Some pray. Animated map depicts the route of the advancement by the troops. Port Cros and Levant : French commandos landed on these islands. U.S. B-25 bombers in flight drop bombs. Fighting ships take their positions. Navigators, gunners and signal men alert. Soldiers prepare for fight. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft fly in formation. A B-24 bomber over mountains. B-25s in flight.509th Parachute Infantry Battalion being inspected at airport. Paratroopers get into aircraft. Aircraft taxis and takes off. United States Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain and C-54 Skymaster military transport aircraft in flight toward Southern France. Paratroopers descend to ground and advance. Gliders land. Soldiers unload and ready artillery. Aerial view of rugged terrain. Ships underway at sea. Officers look through binoculars aboard ship.
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