A film based on getting U.S. supplies to China from Chabua, India during World War II. A dummy antiaircraft emplacement at Chabua airfield. Gun crew around artillery gun at the field. Drums are rolled out from railroad cars. Fuel is poured into containers from the drums. Indian laborers at work. Bombs at a munitions dump. Native laborers unload crates from a truck and load them into U.S. Army Air Force C-46 Commando transport aircraft parked at Chabua airfield. A trainer plane and an ambulance are loaded aboard a C-46. The laborers roll bombs into the aircraft. C-46 taxi on the airfield for take off. Fuel barrels at Chabua airfield. A USAAF C-87 Liberator Express transport plane lands at Chabua airfield. Supply crates loaded aboard the C-87.
Repatriated American flyers depart Annecy, France, during World War 2. French civilians walking and cycling along a path beside the airfield, at Annecy, France, are blown by the propwash from a taxiing U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft. Image of the Hotel des Alpes, overlooking Lake Annecy, Glion, s/Montreux, Switzerland, and image of the flag of Graubunden Canton, Switzerland. (These are souvenirs from places where American flyers were interned.) Repatriated American flyers climbing aboard a C-47 at the airfield. The C-47 taking off. More repatriated flyers gathered on the airfield grass, waiting to board another airplane. A person chasing a sheep and lamb near the group. German prisoners of war, pause from their task of clearing stones from the airfield, to watch a c-47 taking off. Children,and several adults, on the path beside the airfield, are blown by the propwash from a C-47's propellers, as it taxis. Some of the boys lie down to minimize the effect, while they watch. The German POWs resume work clearing stones, as a C-47 takes off in the background. The German prisoners pause and pose for the camera.
Airplanes at the Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, United States. A biplane on the airfield at the Ford Airport at the Airplane Reliability Tour. A few people beside the aircraft. The starter flags off the biplane. The biplane taking off. Several biplanes flagged off one after the other by the starter. People on the airfield watch the biplanes taking off. A monoplane with number '23' written on the fuselage flagged off. The biplane taxiing on the field. A biplane taxiing on the airfield and taking off. Two biplanes taxiing and taking off. The Ford single engine aircraft on the airfield. A few men wheeling the aircraft preparing for take-off. The Ford aircraft taxis on the airfield and takes off. The aircraft in flight.
Bomb wreckage at El Aouina Airport in Tunis, Tunisia during World War II. Wrecked German and Italian aircraft on the airport. Destroyed fuel drums. The wreckage of German and Italian aircraft on the airfield. Swastika sign on the tail of the German aircraft. Parts of aircraft on the airfield. Damaged fuselage of an aircraft. A wrecked German aircraft against a retaining wall. Damaged parts of the retaining wall. A wrecked German fighter aircraft. Aircraft parts spread on the airfield. A wrecked French bomber Bloch MB.174 aircraft on the airfield. Name on the side of the Bloch 174 appears to be "Ltt LEFORT" (who was killed September 19, 1941 in Blida). The skeleton of a wrecked German Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant ("Giant") transport aircraft. U.S. soldiers beside the wrecked aircraft. The wreckage of aircraft strewn on the airfield. A few soldiers inspecting the wreckage. A soldier seated on the wrecked Gigant transport. Soldiers walking among the aircraft wreckage.
U.S. Army aircraft in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanon Crisis. A U.S. Army Cessna L-19 aircraft on an airfield. A soldier beside the aircraft. 'US Army 14655' written on the tail of the aircraft. The L-19 aircraft taxis and takes off from the airfield. A number of aircraft parked on either side of the airfield. A U.S. Army Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw helicopter being towed away by a jeep on the airfield. A signboard on the airfield reads 'Aviation Detachment, Army, Task Force 201, APO 379'.
Bombings in Tokyo, Japan during World War II. A bomb truck backs up to a United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber at an airfield on Saipan, Mariana Islands during the preparations for Tokyo bombing. A soldier writes 'Only the Beginning' on a bomb. The soldier wheeling a bomb cart to the underside of the aircraft. An airman on the top of the aircraft. A Commandant briefing the members of the 21st Bombing Command. Mission leader United States Air Force Brigadier General Emmett O'Donnell and Commanding General of 21st Bombing Command Brigadier General Haywood Hansell, Jr., look at a document and discuss on the airfield. USAAF pilot Robert Morgan, who piloted B-29 Dauntless Dotty, with another crew member. The men beside the B-29 Dauntless Dotty which would lead the team. B-29s lined up on a runway. B-29 Dauntless Dotty takes off. Several men on the airfield watch. A man beside a camera mounted on a tripod takes pictures. The B-29s take off one after the other. They head towards Tokyo. A map shows the flight path from Saipan island to Tokyo, Japan over the Pacific Ocean. Aerial view of Tokyo. The B-29s drop bombs over target areas. Explosions occur in the bombed areas. The B-29s drop more bombs over industrial targets. Explosions occur. The B-29s head back to Saipan after the bombardment. U.S. Army tents in Saipan. Japanese aircraft drop bombs over an airfield in Saipan. Thick clouds of smoke rise from the bombed areas. Wrecked B-29s in view. Flames and smoke rising from the bombed areas. Wreckage of the Japanese aircraft shot down in the raid. Men extinguishing fire. A B-29 taking off from the airfield.
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