Activities of the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) stationed at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, as part of Project Discoverer. An airman stands fire guard, for an engine start (airplane not seen) on a ramp at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Airman seen pulling a chock from the wheels of a C-119J aircraft. Camera lense obscured by a human hand. View of a hangar door, partially open. Several airmen, carrying photographic equipment walk from the hangar. Pickup truck parked next to a C-119J of the 6593rd Squadron. A C-54 parked in background. Two Airmen with photographic equipment walk across a ramp toward parked C-119J aircraft of the 6593rd Test Squadron. A KC-135 tanker aircraft parked in background. One of the Airmen enters the first parked C-119J.
Allied forces battle German forces during World War II. Allied soldiers firing artillery under camouflage canopies at Anzio. General Dwight D. Eisenhower inspects a fighter and the bomber aircraft base of 9th Air Force in England. Eisenhower shakes hands with Major Sherman Beaty, commander of the 555th Squadron, and with the crew of B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft with nose art "Son of Satan" (which was downed by flak over Germany on November 18, 1944). Eisenhower sits in a parked fighter aircraft and fires its guns, with instruction from the pilot standing by. Aerial views of American bomber aircraft conducting daylight bombing runs. Point of view (POV) shot through the partially cracked windscreen of an aircraft after it took enemy fire but kept flying. Bombs-away views as American bombers drop bombs over German targets and as U.S. fighter aircraft shoot down German aircraft. Aerial dogfight battles seen. U.S. Army Air Force fighter strafing German aircraft parked on an airfield. A German fighter plane gets hit, setting it on fire. British Royal Air Force (RAF) Avro Lancaster bombers conduct night raids on German targets. A Waco CG-4A glider arrives in England from the United States during World War 2. United States Army soldiers build a Shanty town from glider crates at the base in the United Kingdom. Soldiers enjoy relaxing and recreation inside Shanty houses. A soldier with headset listens to homemade radio and reads a magazine. Soldiers share a meal on a table. Soldiers receive letters from home at mail call time. A barber shop made from scrap where soldiers can get haircuts.
United States Lockheed U-2 aircraft Number 66715, from the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, flying out of Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico, in operation Crowflight, during the U.S. Air Force Project HASP (High Altitude Sampling Project). The U-2 is seen in flight over water and clouds. Ramey Air Force Base's huge 11,701 foot runway is visible on the last few frames right before the U-2 changes heading from west to south.
A new sonic airplane tested in Muroc, California at (Muroc Air Base, then being renamed to Edwards Air Force Base). Northrop pilot Charles Tucker, wearing an oxygen gear, in United States Air Force's new research craft X-4 Bantam. The X-4 taxis and takes off for its first flight test. The X-4, the swept-wing, semi-tailless plane powered by gas turbine engines, in flight.
Sequence starts at Tontouta Air Base in New Caledonia, on the near left side of runway 2 in the area of the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron ( a.k.a. the Thirsty 13th) with their plane "Lady Eve" on the right. (The 801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron was assigned to the 13th TCS on January 9, 1943, and remained with it until the end of the war. But they also flew on planes of the 63rd and 64th TCSs, and with the Marines.) Takeoff is on runway 11 at Tontouta Air Base. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls in the cockpit of a C-47. A navigator at work. C-47s in flight west over New Georgia, 10 miles southeast of Munda, near Eghelo. The plane landing at Munda has no tail number and is probably a U.S. Marine Corps plane. They evacuate wounded soldiers from Munda airstrip on New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands during World War 2. Doors of the aircraft are opened. An ambulance backs to the door of the aircraft. Litter patients are removed from the ambulance and loaded aboard the C-47.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Local Vietnamese in coolie hats near bicycles on a road. Soldiers on a tank as it moves along on a road. Billowing smoke on ridge from USAF Boeing B-52 Stratofortress air strikes. South Vietnamese soldiers, U.S. M-60 tanks and a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter nearby. South Vietnamese positions around a helipad. Aerial view of the area. Smoke on ridge. Bomb craters and terrain damage in jungle foliage on the ridge. Officers observing bomb damage through open door of the helicopter. An American officer speaking into the radio headset. The pilot at controls in the cockpit.
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