United States Army paratroopers with camouflaged faces carrying full packs as they march on a field in Normandy, France during World War II. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport planes taxi and park on airstrip in England. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane takes off. Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton is seen on airfield.
View from aircraft-mounted camera. Aircraft approaches airfield where multiple enemy German aircraft lie. The aircraft strafes one of the planes on the ground. Scene changes to second pass over the field, where the previous target aircraft is seen destroyed and smoking. Aircraft fires on a second and third aircraft. Third pass over an industrial building, a second USAAF aircraft flies ahead, also firing at the building. Damaged buildings in the background. Additional passes are made to strafe enemy German bomber aircraft parked on the ground. Taken from aircraft of First Lieutenant H. F. Grenning, 434th Squadron, 479th Fighter Group, VIII Fighter Command, during WW2 in Europe.
Allied air fields in Germany during World War II. Men construct an Allied air field in Germany during World War II. United States P-47 aircraft taxi along the runway for take off in the background. Men hammer down corrugated hardstand. Army trucks with crane attachments on front in the background to carry supplies as men work on hardstands. P-47 aircraft lined up at the end of runway. Planes taxi along before take off.
Two American airman standing alongside stacks of bombs in U.S. ammunition storage area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy AirfieldThailand. One gives hand signals to fork operator to come forward. The airmen roll three bombs onto the Forklift blades, from an open wooden crate. After the forklift leaves, the airmen lift away the empty crate, and expose three more bombs ready to be picked up. The forklift returns and they roll three more bombs onto its blades. The airmen then pick up the empty bomb cradle and wooden skid underneath it, and carry them away. Sign over a building at base entry point reads "U-Tapao 635 MMS Munitions Storage Area". A couple of Air Force vehicles near the gate.
U.S. personnel during the Pacific Campaign on the Island of Saipan, Mariana Islands in World War 2. Interiors of damaged steel frame hangar building showing the men as they set up beds with mosquito netting over them inside the building for temporary shelter. Men taking showers in improvised wash rooms. Men cleaning up their living area. U.S. troops looking at dead Japanese sniper.
U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group in Sicily during World War II. A-36s warm up, taxi, and take off from a field.
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