Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, United States. A man drives his Ford Mustang convertible car across a bridge over a river and reaches the entrance gate of the air station which is headquarters for the Naval Air Training Command. Guard at entrance gate shows the way. Four aircraft of the Navy Blue Angels precision flying team are shown performing aerial maneuvers.. Man views the USS Lexington (CV-16) naval aircraft carrier at dock. Several recent college graduates, all participants in the Navy Aviation Officer Candidate program (AOC) check-in to start the program and greet each other. Officer teaches Principles of leadership in class using an overhead projector. Naval aviation students march and exercise under supervision. They play football. They perform physical exercise drills. A participant struggles with situps. Close-up of the face of a commanding officer drill instructor pushing him along. Naval band plays music. Personnel march in uniform in graduation ceremony after the 11 week program. Officer presents graduation degree one by one to them. Four U.S. Navy North American T-28 Trojan aircraft fly over the field in formation. African American commissioned officer and his wife walk up to their apartment door, off-base, carrying grocery bags. Other graduates carry luggage to Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ) and arrange photographs of women on a table and talk. Low aerial view approaching flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43). Commissioned officers on board the carrier sit at dinner table and talk.
Film opens showing a large formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers flying high overhead as they return to bases in the United Kingdom, during World War 2. Closeup of one plane shows Triangle tail code of the 97th Bombardment Group, and tail number 42-23383. View looking past tail tunner turret towards numerous aircraft in a formation. Scene shifts to view from a B-17 of black flak clouds from German anti-aircraft guns. A B-17 in flight with flak damage to a wing, and another with a destroyed left tail stabilizer and elevator. Closeup of feathered right inboard engine on a B-17 in flight. More views from behind the formation, and looking straight up at passing B -17s overhead. View looking down at a B-17 approaching for landing. Closeup of both right engines feathered on a B-17 in flight. (Narrator states an aircraft named "Stella" had three engines inoperative and was unable to reach the field to land.) Army Air Forces controllers communicating by radio with crews of aircraft. View from ground of the B-17 ("Stella") coming in for a crash landing in an oat field, with landing gear not extended. Closeup from cockpit, of number 3 engine running and number4 feathered. View from inside the aircraft as it crash lands. View of it in the field. It displays tail number 42-5910 and a "G" tail code in a white triangle, identifying it as belonging to the 40th Bombardment Wing, 305th Bomb Group at RAF Grafton Underwood Trucks are seen carrying mechanics and technicians to the crash landing site. Next, the B-17 is seen surrounded by repair crews. It is sitting in a cleared area and its landing gear is intact. Closeup of the aircraft's flak torn fuselage. A severely damaged gun turret on the ground next to the aircraft. Section of cockpit sitting on the ground. Views of mechanics working in their portable shops as they make repairs to the B-17 aircraft. Machinist running a lathe in one of the portable shops.View from ground of the mechanics at work on the aircraft's engines, as engineers employ earth-moving equipment in the background to create a temporary runway to facilitate takeoff. Closeups of the earth-moving equipment at work. More closeups of mechanics working to restore the aircraft. Some work on an engine suspended from an A-Frame. Closeup of two mechanics, one of whom displays images of a Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter aircraft and a B-26 Marauder aircraft on his jacket. More views of eath-moving operations. Closeup of a mechanic being moved by crane as he guides a propeller into place on the B-17. Closeups of mechanics affixing propellers on the plane. View of engineers employing surveying instruments as they ready the emergency strip for the B-17's takeoff. Closeup of the aircraft ("Stella") surrounded by seated mechanics, as she is about ready to fly again. View from behind spectators, including local English people, as the aircraft engines start. The repaired B-17 taxis onto the improvised air strip, and raising lots of dust as she takes off. Glimpse of local people waving as the aircraft becomes airborne.
United States Air Force 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. Major at desk speaks to United States Air Force Sergeant at operations center, who writes in a log book. A map hangs in the background.
View of tail section and right wing from backside of Convair B-36, a strategic bomber of USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas. Another view of tail section, left engine and left wing of Convair B-36. Several other B-36 air planes and hangar building in background. View of nose section of a B-36 . One crew man walking into bomb-bay of the plane and the other walking across top left wing of B-36.
Space capsule from Discoverer XIV falling with a parachute. A USAF(United States Air Force) C-119 snags the canopy using a hook that was trailing the aircraft. C-119 brings the space capsule after catching it in mid air. Capsule removed from plane after landing. Crew being congratulated and an official addressing them at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.
Newsreel titled 'RAF (Royal Air Force) and YANKS in a boxing match'. View of indoor boxing ring at an American air base in England during World War 2. British and American boxers put gloves on. Royal Air Force pilots and Americans in boxing tie during the Second World War. Crowd cheers them In the end, winner is awarded a cup.
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