A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. A JB-3, air-to-air missile. The missile is attached to the wing of a B-26 Invader. A still photograph of a partially assembled JB-3 missile in an assembly building.
U.S. Air Forces Air Traffic Controllers on duty at a control Tower in an airfield during World War 2.. Several multi-engine aircraft are parked on the ramp, outside, including two Douglas C-54 transport aircraft. One controller looks through binoculars. Next, airmen are seen loading cargo into an aircraft from a truck backed up to its side. Air Forces ground crewmen are silhouetted against a light sky as they watch aircraft take off while being ferried overseas. Parked behind them is a USAAF Consolidated B-24 bomber. A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber taking off. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft landing. A North American B-25 Mitchell bomber taking off. Next, numerous Douglas C-47 transport airplanes are seen taxiing on an airfield. View from directly in front of a C-47 aircraft as it takes off, and passes over the camera. View from ground of a low flying C-47, and then of several in loose formation flying overhead.
Maneuvers of United States Army Air Service 1st Provisional Air Brigade at Langley Field, Virginia. Enemy's aerodrome with hangars and airplanes outlined. The pursuits drop 25 pound bombs on targets. U.S. Army Air Service Airco DH4 aircraft in flight. Bombers with order to attack hangars release 100 pound bombs. Smoke emanates from the bombed areas. A fleet of aircraft in flight over land and water.
Hank Polakis wear an air conditioned suit to beat the heat in summers in Gila Centre, Arizona. Hank Polakis displays a self designed clothes with air pumps below his shoes and pipes from the pumps run to different parts of the body. Polakis walks down a street as the air pumps supply constant breeze to him lowering the temperatures.
U.S. 35th air policemen parked outside U.S. Army FEAF (Far East Air Forces) headquarters in Tokyo. American soldiers emerge from the FEAF headquarters building and line up with their gear on sidewalk across the street. It is raining. An officer reads orders to the soldiers and they get into a truck. An air police jeep backs up. The jeep and the truck pull away. View of top of the building, from which the United Nations and U.S. flags fly.
A dramatization detailing ASR (Air Sea Rescue) of U.S. 8th Air Forces crew members in North Sea during World War II. U.S. PBY Catalina flying boat and B-17 Flying Fortress bombers dropping dinghies on water by means of parachute. Crew members of 8th Air Force rowing a raft with oars. Crew members board dinghy and get underway. High speed motor boat of British Royal Navy rescuing the men aboard dinghy.
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