Testing aircraft for Strategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission. Drogue chutes fail in landing tests of a U.S. Air Force C-47F at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. In the first scene, a C-47F, trailing a drogue chute, lands on a hard surface runway At the moment of impact as the parachute billows, the shroud line breaks. Parachute collapses and trails behind the aircraft going down the runway. In the second sequence, the C-47F lands on rough terrain, but the drogue chute fails and the aircraft stops using propeller reverse and brakes.
Air base of the U.S. Air Force at Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, South Pacific during World War II. Fighter airplanes taking off from the runway. P-40 of the U.S. Air Force with jaws painted on its nose takes off. Following it, the P-38 and P-39 airplanes also take off from a runway among palms of the island.
United States Army Air Force at their base on the island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. B-29 bombers of the U.S. Air Force land on landing strip one after the other. Airmen at the runway. Airman marshaling a B-29. A pilot looks out form cockpit window of one of the B-29. The aircraft with painted nose art of an attractive, semi-nude woman and slogan 'A-Broad With Eleven Yanks.' (B-29 number 42-24698. Assigned to 499th BG, 877th BS. Shot down over Kyushu, Japan July 11, 1945. 1 crewman killed, 10 survived and rescued. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 14344.)
Major General Charles D Chandler, Jr and Colonel Daniel 'Chappie' James, Jr, enter TOC. General John D Ryan, CinC U.S. Pacific Air Force, with Colonel Robin Olds going to 497th TFS. Both of them with other U.S. Air Force officers leaving TOC area by car. General Ryans car passes through flight line and F-4 revetments of Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base.
'Air Age' and 'Old West' meet as Abilene, Texas celebrates its 75th Anniversary. Old Timer's Day is coupled with opening of a new Strategic Air Command base. Donkeys are seen. A Jet Air Show is seen. Four Jet Planes seen in flight. Several people watch the show. A man raises a boy on his shoulder to watch the event.
Red Cross volunteers provide refreshments to French troops stopping at Hickam Air Force Base,Territory of Hawaii, on their way home to France, from Indochina. Women volunteers smiling and offering sweets to the French soldiers. Group of women volunteers in traditional Hawaiian costumes of grass skirts and flower Leis. stand in front of Red Cross buses at hangar entrance, and wave. Women volunteers in Red Cross uniforms are seen in front of the Air Evac canteen in the hangar. A U.S. Military Air Transport Service C-97 aircraft, tail number 48-420, taxiis in on wet pavement. As French troops deplane, some volunteers place flower leis on the necks of the arriving French soldiers. The volunteers in grass skirts dance the hula for them. The dancers entice a French officer to dance with them. The French soldiers board a waiting bus. One French officer limps an uses a cane to walk. The bus drives away, and scene shifts to wounded French soldiers on litters being carried from the aircraft. They also receive leis from women greeters. Americans gather around the open rear doors of the aircraft as troops exit. A group are getting refreshments from volunteers at the hangar canteen.
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