WB-29A of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters) returning from a mission. The aircraft seen flying between smooth cloud layers. It banks to the left and descends. View of the WB-29 flying over part of Bermuda. Inside the aircraft, crew member fastens down equipment in preparation for landing. View from the ground as the WB-29 passes overhead. Another from the ground, of the aircraft touching down, bouncing up gently, and then staying down on the Kindley Air Force Base runway. (Note: During World War II, this B-29, tail number 42-94047, named the City of Jamestown, belonged to the 330th Bombardment Group, 459th Bomb Squadron stationed on Guam. On April 24, 1945,it was ditched near the shore of Japan, while returning from a bombing mission against the Hitachi aircraft factory in Tachikawa, Japan. Obviously, it was recovered and placed back in service after the war ended.)
U.S. Navy's pogo-stick airplane in California, United States. United States Navy Convair XFY Pogo airplane parked at an air base. A pilot and a co-pilot in the cockpit. The boarding staircase is removed. The airplane takes off vertically. The airplane in flight. Landing of the Pogo aircraft.
Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. Corsican women and soldiers outside a dispensary at Alto Air Base in Corsica, France. A young girl wearing a hat outside the dispensary. U.S. Army trucks and jeeps on a road towards Bologne, Italy.
View of military air base tarmac and ground crew. One crew member reads a newspaper while others repair a bicycle. Crew member seen through bicycle wheel while its is fixed while upside down.
Ambulance crew medics on air base field watch the sky from their ambulance truck during World War II. Medics have red cross arm bands on their uniforms. One soldier points at the sky. View of ambulance crew soldier with sky in the background. Ambulance crew members in the back of their ambulance. They scan the sky looking for planes and point.
Missile launch malfunction at Vandenberg Air Force Base California USA. A large amount of hot gases ignites from nozzle of missile during launch in silo. Missile ascends in-flight at night. Missile explodes in the sky shortly after launch, the rocket’s remains fall from the sky.
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