A World War II training film depicts the use of barrage balloon to damage enemy airplanes flying at low altitude during a war in the United States. Animation shows the influence of weather on the barrage balloon. A balloon floats in air due to high wind. The cable breaks. The balloon flies and drags cable on the ground. Sparkling on electric wires as cable hits the wires. The cable accidentally breaks. The dive in the balloon explodes cuts the cable. The parachute opens. The balloon deflates floats downwards. Animation shows links attached in the wire cable and their function.
A test flight of a new USAAF (United States Army Air Force) Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft in Burbank, California. USAAF P-38s inside a hangar. Men seated on a wing of a P-38. The P-38 is pulled out of a hangar. A pilot wearing a mask on a bicycle. The pilot wearing a helmet and a mask gets in to the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The P-38 in flight over the city. Mountains in the background.
U.S. Army's new jet helicopter in flight in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. A pilot gets into the cockpit of the Sikorsky XH-39. A four-blade main rotor of the helicopter rotates. The helicopter retracting its landing gears. The helicopter hovers in the air. The jet helicopter in flight. U.S. aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky looks at the Sikorsky XH-39 helicopter with binoculars. The helicopter in flight.
A committee of Army and Air Forces officers in Europe meet in Karlsruhe, Germany (Gerszewski Barracks, Knielingen) for the purpose of counting and disposing all old and worn out Military Payment Certificates (MPC). Several shots of officers keeping money boxes on a trolley. The boxes with money are loaded in a truck. The officers keep a watch. Trucks carrying money drive on a road. The money is convoyed under guard to the I.G. Farben Building where it is burnt. The boxes are piled up. The money is burnt. Officers pick up MPCs and put them into the fire. The whole committee witnesses the burning of the scrip money. The officers collect money and put it into the fire.
A committee of Army and Air Forces officers in Europe meet in Karlsruhe, Germany for the purpose of counting and disposing all old and worn out Military Payment Certificates (MPC). The money is convoyed under guard to the I.G. Farben Building where it is burnt. The money burning. An officer light a cigarette from burning bills. The officer uses a stick to put the money in fire. The money burning. The convoy met by MP car speeding on the icy autobahn. A U.S. truck carrying money backs up towards the building. A man directs the truck. The officer unload boxes. They open a box. Money inside the box. The officers look at the box. An officer pushes the money in fire. The officers one after the other sign on a document
Ice jams in areas of Tangier Island and Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay Maryland, leave resident fishing community cut-off from supplies for weeks and starving. A truck drives up in front of a U.S. Army Air Corps Keystone B-6A biplane bomber at a hangar of Langley Field. The U.S. airmen transfer bundles of food supplies from truck to aircraft. The B-6A in flight. Aerial view of ice-jammed area showing houses and barns surrounded by ice jam. The bundles of food being dropped from B-6A onto Tangier Island. The B-6A in flight.
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