Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. A Caudron trainer and French mechanics turn an aircraft at a field by lifting the tail and twisting on the wing tip.
Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. A French mechanic repairs a wing of an aircraft. Men at work on the fuselage of an aircraft in the background. Men rebuilt the fuselage of the aircraft in front of a canvas hangar building. The assembled aircraft parts on the ground and on a work bench. Airmen working on the fuselage.
Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. An airman loads a camera in a machine gun mounted on the turret of an aircraft. A gunner standing in the gunner's seat of the aircraft demonstrates the action of the turret. He swings the gun to various positions for firing.
U.S. Fliers of the 96th Aero Squadron, pose with support personnel and some French counterparts, at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. Camera pans across the group posing in front of a line of parked De Havilland DH-4 bombers. They wave and throw their hats into the air.
Film opens showing French sign pointing to Orly airport entrance. French Army trucks are seen arriving at the field, carrying young men in civilian clothes. A U.S.Air force C-47 transport plane is parked in the background. The men wave cheerfully from the open backs of the trucks. French tricolor and American flags are seen in the breeze. Near the entrance of the base, a French Army major is overseeing the arrival of the trucks. View of sign identifying the American area of Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force 7415th Air Base Group at at Orly Field. Occupants of the trucks jump down after their tailgates are lowered. They remove their duffel bags and footlockers from the trucks, and stand nearby. View of the paratroopers (in civilian clothes) standing in loose formation near their belongings. Close-ups of many. Some use their own cameras to take pictures. One clowns around with a toy stuffed monkey, eliciting smiles from the others. More close-ups of the men. View from behind the loosely assembled men. One carries a bugle in his personal gear. Close-up of the bugle. Wide view of the men killing time as they wait around. A French Foreign Legion officer in a leather jacket and kepi, alongside a paratrooper officer (in civilian clothes, but wearing a foulard) walks with group of the paratroopers. The entire group of men is seen assembling near a hangar building. Men hand out passports to individual men. Some are handed out by a French paratrooper, in uniform, with beret. U.S. Air Force and civilian photographers are in the background. Several paratroopers show their passports for the camera. The paratroopers break out some of their rations and eat. Some pose around a sign prohibiting public access due to construction. Paratroopers saying farewell to women (some tearful). Close-up of one saying goodbye to wife and child. A group all waving goodbye.
Camps seen at ground in Japan. An aircraft in flight. Trees in the background. An aircraft catches fire and falls on ground. Black smoke rises up. A jeep stands near it at night. Men extinguish fire by throwing water at the burning wreckage. Men stand near it. United States bomber aircraft B-29 Super fortress takes off. Men stand at a hilly terrain. U.S. aircraft B-29 aircraft in flight. (World War II period).
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