U.S. chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. A U.S. soldier wearing impregnated clothing and a gas mask crawls in a jungle. Soldiers apply an ointment on their bodies. They put on double layer of impregnated clothing during mustard gas tests. The results are examined on bodies of Japanese prisoners. A gas is tested on a goat wearing mask fitted with Japanese canisters. Mortars are fired by U.S. troops. U.S. 6th Air Force bombers drop bombs to test gas concentration. A goat equipped with a Japanese canister gets killed by the use of CK gas. U.S. bombers drop bombs near anchored ships to determine the effects on antiaircraft personnel. An unaffected goat equipped with a U.S. Army canister after the use of gas. Dead goats are taken away by men. Dead Chinese soldiers after use of gas munitions by the Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War.
A training film which introduces U.S. Navy F8U-2N Crusader aircraft and summarizes differences between F8U-2N and other F8U series aircraft, United States. F8U-2N in flight. Pilots adjust knob at instrument panel of an aircraft. Shows three pneumatic pressure gauges under missile mount on right hand forward fuselage of F8U-2N parked at an airfield. Pilots makes a walk around inspection of aircraft. Pilot at ventral fins of an aircraft. Pair of air scoops on aircraft. Sidewinder missiles on side of aircraft. Animation shows additional fuel tank and function of forward transfer cell. Cockpit arrangement shows control panel of F8U-2N with various switches and knobs. Airman climbs to cockpit of F8U-2N. Pilot aboard F8U-2N. External power operation of plane as pilot adjusts switches on instrument panel. Animated chart details working of AC and DC generator. Indicators on instrument panel of F8U-2N parked at an airfield. F8U-2N taxis and takes off.
U.S. Army Air Forces flyers who escaped internment in Switzerland, are seen at Annecy airfield, France, during World War II. Escapees pose on a field. Swiss banner and sticker on a suitcase. French civilians stand around. U.S. Colonel shakes hands with departing escaped USAAF flyers, who board USAAF C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft parked in the background. U.S. Colonel and French civilians stand in wind caused by propwash from the aircraft. The C-47 taxis along the grassy Annecy airfield. French civilians watch the C-47 as it taxis and takes off. Cattle on field. German prisoners of war look toward sky. Prisoners march along a field.
U.S. Army Air Forces vehicles parked at curb near Hotel France, in Ambilly France, during World War 2. American and other allied flyers gathered near a plaza. some are in uniform and some in civilian clothes. All have escaped from internment across the border, in Switzerland. Local French people gather around them as they are photographed. Next scene shows the flyers leaving in the AAF Vehicles. A soldier stands near a street sign in the town (Ambilly). It points to the Swiss frontier border. (Another sign shows the Ambilly town speed limit of 30Km per hour.) Remainder of the film shows view of Château de Menthon Saint-Bernard on Lake Annecy, France. with cloud and mist above it and majestic Alps mountains behind.
Allied flyers (mostly American) who escaped from internment in Switzerland, pose in front of a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport airplane, at Annecy Airfield, France, during World War 2. A C-47 seen taking off from the field.
A Swiss Border guard walks toward camera, on the French side of the Franco-Swiss border crossing near Annecy, France, during World War 2. He confers with an American Air Force officer. A tram arrives on the Swiss side and stops at the border. A large group of American flyers step from the tram with their baggage. They are barred from moving further, by Swiss guards. But one man in a raincoat, walks past the guards and greets U.S. officers and an official, outside a customs office at the border. A Swiss border guard supervisor directs guards to move the flyers to a walkway. Another American Army officer arrives and greets those already there. The flyers being repatriated from Switzerland, walk en masse across the border and climb aboard a bus waiting on the French side.
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