Film opens showing a nondescript blue building with a white shed attached. A tall signal tower stands nearby. View shifts closer to the buliding. A large truck is parked across the street. Sign near the building reads: "635th MMS, RACAF Field Office. U.S. Air Force airmen leave the building and peruse bulletin boards on the white shed. Inside the building, several airmen are seen seated at control stations observing large visual displays. One of the airmen makes marks on his display, while one of the other airmen is speaking into a microphone at his position. Closeup of airman annotating information inside display boxes (representing storage locations in the facility).Sequence is interrupted briefly, as cameraman begins new slate while focused on the center airman with the microphone, who then resumes speaking into the microphone, while also annotating the diagram in front of him. Similar views continue to end of film.
PT-10 rescue boat underway. Pontoon of SA-16 taxiing. Two Air Force PT-10 rescue boats. PT-10 rescue boat near life raft. Men lifting stretcher baskets from water to deck of PT-10 rescue boat. Two men remove life vests. Cadets watch the operations. Men board PT-10 rescue boat. Sailors alert and run out to PT-10 rescue boat.
Civilians and Servicemen watch the flying maneuvers of airplanes in the 11th All-America Air Maneuvers show. Early flight stunt Birdman Clem Sohn stages breathtaking exhibition wearing his 'Bat man' ornithopter suit of wings. He jumps from a plane, flies using his wingsuit, and lands with his parachute. Close up view of Clem Sohn on the ground.
Two aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Force flying overhead in St Lo, France a month after the invasion of France during World War 2. P-47 Thunderbolt airplane in flight. It approaches another aircraft in flight.
Trainees from U.S. Army Air Service or Aviation Section of U.S. Signal Corps undergo training in World War 1. A JN-4 with pilot and rear gunner aboard, takes off on a dirt field. Another JN-4 airplane in flight near the plane. They participate in mock aerial dogfights. Aircrew trainees watch from porch of a building and point skyward as a JN-4 performs aerobatics, including several loops. A captain makes notes and looks at the airplane through binoculars.
Mechanics of the U.S. Army Air Forces 80th Fighter Squadron ("Headhunters") perform maintenance on a P-38 Lightning aircraft in New Guinea, during World War 2. A small dog stands on the wing next to men as they work on an engine. Two flights of four P-38s fly in in formation. A squadron of P-38s seen in flight. Several different views of the P-38s in formation with clouds behind. One scene shows P-38s illuminated by sunlight from above against contrasting dark water below. View from cockpit of a P-38 with pilot visible and another P-38 seen through cockpit window. Pilot waves at the other P-38 which rocks its wings. A P-38 passes in opposite direction.
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