United States Air Force officers meeting. Artist’s concept of surface-to-surface cruise missiles by the United States Army Air Force such as the MX-771 (MGM-1 Matador), MX-770, and the MX-775A (MX775A Snark).
United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agents relaying reports via radio to high command in Egypt during World War II. Animated map shows radio waves from the Balkan region reaching Cairo. Radio towers at Huckstep station inside Camp Huckstep. Radio operators pick up radio signals in control room. A radio operator takes message to his colleague. High command officers deliberate plans in Europe before a large map. United States Army Air Force 15th Bombing Command bombardiers and pilots attend a briefing with officer pointing to maps. Ground control radio operator gives commands at air field. United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers taxiing and then taking off from airfield, including one dubbed, "Ready, Willing, and Able" and another named "Strawberry Bitch." Bombers in formation overhead. Close up of a hand of bombardier pushing bomb release button to drop bombs. Close up view of bombs dropping out of open bomb bay of B-24. View of bombs dropping over what narrator claims to be a Balkan city. Aerial view shows thick smoke covering the bomb sites.
Allied troops move against German counterattacks in Belgium and Western Germany during World War II. United States troops move along a muddy road in Belgium. Incendiary explosion. Tire on fire from incendiary. A soldier looks at wrecked American military jeeps and ruined buildings. Heavy smoke rises from a pile of wreckage. Fleeing civilians and refugees walk on the road on foot. Some of the civilians bring bicycles. Belgian Roman Catholic priests wearing Cappello romano hats are seen moving with the group. African American motorized infantry moving into Belgium. An African American soldier smoking cigarette on passing truck. Soldiers in the Ardennes Forest. A soldier plants M1 anti-tank mines in the Ardennes. He places a mine in a hole in the ground. The soldier covers the mine with a pile of dried leaves. Soldiers setting up roadblocks and covering tanks with foliage for camouflage. An M3 Stuart light tank is covered with hay to disguise as a haystack. United States soldiers carefully search the field for Nazi paratroopers. A soldier finds abandoned parachute equipment and white snow cape. Soldiers inspect passing trucks at an intersection between Bastogne and Martelange in Wallonia, Belgium. Belgian civilians fleeing a German advance on Highway 15. American Military Police personnel diligently searching for disguised German soldiers to prevent infiltration. A Military Police officer inspects a Belgian man’s identification paper. Military Police personnel questions a driver of a Jeep. Soldiers digging a dugout. Soldier with an M1917 Browning Machine gun. Artillery crew firing a M101 105 mm Howitzer. A pile of shells stands beside the Howitzer. An officer gives out orders to fire over telephone. Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 tanks firing in the Ardennes. A soldier inspects with binoculars. Infantry troops moving across a field and village. Soldiers firing rifles from behind a stone fence. A soldier deposits a charge into a basement window, followed by explosion. Soldier fires bazooka in haze. Soldiers looking up to the sky searching for air support. Allied bombers flying over Belgium. British Royal Air Force bombers dropping bombs over a road junction as seen from bomb bay view.
A 1947 Wolseley 14-60 Series III automobile on wooden platform is lifted via crane. The car is lowered to the dock, rotated slightly, and then lowered into a ship's cargo hold. Another saloon style car is lifted into the air. A 1947 Morris Eight Series E is lifted into the air.
A captured World War II German film describing procedures of the Junkers in-flight re-fueling. Early tests being conducted with obsolete aircraft, and later with Junkers 290 Cargo-transport planes. Junkers Ju-290 cargo-transport aircraft towing a Junkers Ju-88 bomber inflight. View of a single-engine, high-wing obsolete model monoplane parked on a field with pilot in open cockpit. View of the aircraft tail showing the in-flight refueling coupling assembly as it is attached to aircraft tail. A mechanic walks over to the aircraft’s tail assembly, picks up the square-shaped coupler and shows how it pulls away on cable from aircraft tail assembly. German mechanic holding the coupler in his hands and demonstrating the hook-on attachment. View of the interior or open cockpit of same obsolete plane showing the coupling cable pulley assembly. German mechanic placing and pulling the coupler assembly away from tail of parked aircraft. The pilot starts engine. The obsolete aircraft flies. View of an unidentified twin-engine, low-wing, light aircraft. Light aircraft showing nose upon which a special hook arresting device is attached for catching the coupler. An extreme close-up view of the tip of hook refueling setup. Extreme close-up view of a civilian demonstrating way in which coupler hook assembly attaches to the hook arresting device. View of the pilot inside pilot's cockpit as his hand pulls levers which release coupler hook from arresting device. Aerial view of same high-wing old type monoplane flying with the coupler coupling assembly attached to its tail. Pilot wearing goggles in cockpit unwinds coupler cable. Coupler trailing on cable behind aircraft. Twin-engine light aircraft flying behind first aircraft. Same aircraft as the refueling coupler hook-device gets closer to its nose. View of same coupler taken from first aircraft housing coupler cable release. Aircraft with hook arresting device flying as coupler comes closer to being engaged. Coupler and arresting device as they become coupled. Two coupled aircraft flying for refueling. Pilot in rear seat of first aircraft cranks the coupling cable or pulls the second coupled aircraft towards tail of first aircraft. View of the two aircraft as they slowly draw to each other. The same scene as seen from the rear of first towing-coupled aircraft. Extreme close-up of the coupler and air-to-air refueling device as they become disengaged when pilot pulls a releasing handle. The two aircraft as coupler disengages from the arresting device and the aircraft become uncoupled. The coupler hook assembly taken from rear of second aircraft having the arresting device attached to its nose. Coupler hook catches the arresting device midair. Twin-engine light aircraft flying from left to right with the coupler assembly gliding in front of it until it becomes engaged.
A captured World War II German film describing procedures of the Junkers in-flight refueling method. A Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-290 cargo-transport aircraft taxiing in an airfield. Animation depicts how a coupler hook and arresting device operate in the coupling of Ju-290 and Ju-88 bomber aircraft for air to air refueling. The diagram shows the flight direction (“Flugrichtung”). The coupler hook coupling assembly mounts in the tail of parked Ju-88 aircraft. Interior shots of the coupler coupling cable pulley assembly. View of the coupling arresting device mounted on nose section of Ju-290 aircraft. Junkers dual aircraft control coupler contact device mounted in center nose of Ju-290 aircraft. View of the Junkers dual aircraft control coupler contact device as it thrusts forward about 3 feet upon release by pilot from cockpit control board. A man adjusts the device. Animation showing the method by which refueling coupler device controls the movement of ailerons and flaps of second aircraft in tow. Interior scenes showing the various dual refueling coupling control devices inside both the leading and trailing aircraft moving. The camera pans to the various parts of aircraft which the above devices control in the process of coupling. Man pulls a lever. The steering wheel automatically moves inside the cockpit. Ailerons and flaps of a German aircraft moving. The Junkers dual aircraft control coupler contact device thrusts forward about 3 feet upon release by pilot from cockpit control board. Junkers Ju-290 cargo-transport aircraft taxiing on runway against the background of a hangar. The Ju-290 taking off and from airfield. View of an unidentified twin-engine, low-wing aircraft with the coupling device mounted on nose, taxiing, and taking off. The Ju-290 and low-wing aircraft both in flight. A pilot sitting in front of instrument panel of the Junkers Ju-290 transport plane. Pilot's hand pulls the lever, which in turn releases the coupler hook assembly from rear of aircraft. Rear view of the Ju-290 showing in detail how coupler hook assembly gets released and trails behind aircraft from cable. Cable-pulley assembly of the Ju-290 in operation. Refueling coupler of the Ju-290 trailing behind on cable. Rear view of the Ju-290 as seen from the unknown aircraft flying behind the transport plane. View of the nose of the second aircraft with the refueling coupling arresting device. The arresting device and coupler hook assembly become coupled in flight. Pilot in control cabin of the Ju-290 pulls lever making the coupling cable pull the trailing twin-engine aircraft toward his aircraft. The refueling cable-pulley assembly in operation. The Ju-290 transport plane a refuel process connection progresses. Pilot of the second aircraft pulls lever which thrusts forward from the nose of his aircraft the coupler contact control device. View of the refuel coupler device. View of the trailing aircraft taken from rear of Junkers Ju-290, as it is pulled closer to the rear of the Ju-290. The rigid refuel coupler control device contacts rear of Ju-290 aircraft. The coupler control device is locked into the arresting socket. The Ju-290 and the other twin-engine aircraft are coupled in flight. The pilot and co-pilot of the second aircraft waving their hands, as seen from the rear of the Junkers Ju-290. Pilot’s hands holding the steering wheel of aircraft. The pilot of the Ju-290 pulls lever and releases the second coupled aircraft. The coupled section of both aircraft separates. The second aircraft continues to fly.
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