March and April, 1945. Near the end of World War 2, P-47s of the U.S. 9th and 8th Air Forces attacking ground targets in Germany. They strafe various ground targets virtually at will. One chases a German Me-109. Rapid succession of identifying slates and fragments of gun camera footage. The first involves P-47 of the 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 378th Fighter Squadron, operating out of Frankfurt, Rhein Main Airbase (Y-73) Germany. Others involve the 8th Air Force, P-51s of the 338th Fighter Squadron and possibly other units.
Aerial view from airplane flying low over a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California, shows cars and people below, gathered around a parked Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft that landed there on July 14, 1937, after a nonstop flight over the North Pole, from Moscow, Russia. Closeup of local people standing in roped off area, looking at the airplane. Scene changes to Soviet pilot, Mikhail Gromov; Co-pilot, Sergei Danilin, and Navigator, Andrei Yumashev, meeting the Press, 20 miles away, on veranda at March Army Air Field Officers Club. Back at the landing site, local people walk under the aircraft wings and examine it closely. Letters "25ND25" are stenciled under the left wing. Back at March Field, American Air Corps officers shake hands with the Soviet flyers.
Amelia Earhart and her crew take off from the U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, to begin their flight around the world. Views from another aircraft as their Lockheed Electra flies low over Western Span of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco, heading West toward the Pacific Ocean. Scene on the ground, several days earlier, Paul Mantz and Amelia Earhart Putnam converse, as he secures a dzuz fastener on the aircraft fuselage. Mechanic Bo McKneely helps Earhart step from the wing of the airplane. She talks with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz, talks with Earhart and George Putnam while Bo McKneely refuels the Lockheed Electra. In final scenes, ground crew pushes the Lockheed Electra into a Hangar at the Naval Air Station.
Preparations for Amelia Earhart's trip around the world in her Lockheed Electra airplane. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in flight, checking navigation equipment and procedures in the air. Aerial views from another aircraft of the Lockheed Electra over the Oakland Bridge and other landmarks. The aircraft is seen landing and taking off at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California
United States Marine Corps in Iwo Jima Island during Iwo Jima operation of World War II. The Marines repair Japanese air strip on the island. A truck tows a Japanese steam roller on the air strip. The Marines walk along. Smoke in the background.
General Billy Mitchell wearing fur coat and western style hat. Animated illustration of U.S. Army Martin bomber operating at 15 thousand feet during the famous demonstrations of air power against battleships, in 1921. This was possible because the aircraft engines were supercharged, an outgrowth of Dr. Sanford Moss's developments at General Electric Company.World War 2 scenes of U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft that use supercharged engines: P-51s; P-47s; P-38s; B-24s; B-17s and B-29s. View of atomic bomb explosion.
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