OV-1 plane takes off from the Ankhe Airfield of U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in South Vietnam. View of control tower of Ankhe Airfield. C-130 taxis to unloading area. 1st Cavalry Division's welcome sign on airfield.
Opening slate gives date as September 20, 1943. Scenes show devastation wrought by Allied bombing of the Japanese airfield at Lae, New Guinea. Most views are from the ground, as Allies occupy the field. Numerous Japanese aircraft are destroyed along with all the buildings and facilities. Next, is shown the view from inside a B-25 bomber, on September 27, 1943, as it flies in a 100 aircraft bombing mission to attack coastal facilities, ships, and airfields in the Wewak area, including the main air base at Wewak and its satellite fields at Boram, Dagua and But. Several B-25s are seen ahead in formation. View of the coastal area below as the camera plane (B-25) comes under fire by Japanese anti-aircraft guns. A pall of smoke hangs over the Wewak area from bombing by B-24s earlier. view from cockpit as the B-25 makes very low strafing and bombing attack against the Japanese satellite airbase at Boram. Another B-25 seen as it flies close to the ground. View to the rear shows small parachutes being released by the B-25, carrying single 100-lb fragmentation bombs and 23-pounders in clusters of three. The fragmentation bombs explode amongst palm trees sheltering Japanese aircraft. view out the back of the camera B-25 shows it continuing to fly, just over the tree tops, at very low altitude. Next, several B-25s are seen rejoined up in formation, ahead. Scene shifts to view from high altitude of bombs striking in the Wewak waterfront area. View from below of three B-25s in formation. Then view from cockpit of a B-25 flying low over the water strafing a ship. (Narrator says they dive low to skip-bomb a ship trying to escape.) Various views of the high hills at the waterfront. View from B-25 strafing Japanese aircraft on the ground at Dagua and Boram airfields. several B-25s in formation headed home. (World War II period).
Berlin during Berlin airlift operations. A boy runs towards his father and gives him a teddy bear for one of the pilots. The father, an airfield worker gives the teddy to one of the pilots. Pilots approach snack bar on airfield. German labor presents teddy to a pilot who gifts him a pipe. Pilot reaches his home and meets his family. He gifts teddy to his children. A plane in its flight. Pilot walks to a porthole and drops candy by parachute. Children run to get the candies. The plane makes its landing. The airfield worker walk to the pilots and shows them newspaper headlines. Protest meets in Potsdammer Platz. A huge crowd of people assembled. An airplane ready for flight, Pilot observes the radarscope and talks on mike. The plane takes off.
Berlin Airlift operations at Templehof Airfield during Berlin Blockade by the Soviet Union, as supplies are being brought from all over with roadways blocked by Russians. U.S. Air Force plane landing at Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin and a Berliner showing newspaper to two U.S. Air Force pilots. Crowd massed up outside a building. Pilot in flight talking into radio and airmen on ground responding. An aircraft with cargo crashes and firemen trying to put off fire. Aircraft operations going at ground and in air. Crowd walking at Tempelhof Airfield. Aircraft takes off.
British Members of the Parliament arrive at Haneda Airfield (Hanedakuko, Ota City, Tokyo 144-0041, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan. Cars parked outside the airfield. the British Commonwealth member, W. M. Ball and British Political Advisor, A.D.F. Gascoigne talk with Lieutenant General C.H. Gairdner. Parliamentarians leave plane and being greeted. Members of parliament pose at an airfield. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur enters a building.
Scenes regarding the U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 named Memphis Belle, the first American bomber and crew to complete twenty-five missions over enemy territory in Europe during World War Two. Views of the peaceful English countryside around the British Royal Air Force Bassingbourn airfield, home base of the U.S. 8th Air Force 91st Heavy Bombardment Group. B-17s parked all around on the airfield. Views of Bassingbourn Church, graveyard, horse-drawn wagon, fields of grain, and farm buildings. On the airfield, ground crews clean canopies, refuel aircraft, and perform maintenance on the B-17s. Bombs seen stacked in munitions dump. Airmen ride on bombs aboard trolleys pulled by tugs. One plays the harmonica. Arriving at B-17s, they begin inserting nose fuzes in bombs. Pilots, Navigators, and bombardiers attend morning mission briefing and learn that their target is Wilhelmshaven. Chaplain prays over several crew members. Bombs are loaded on the B-17s. Crew of the 324th Bomb Squadron B-17, "Memphis Belle," arrives at the aircraft aboard a jeep. Pilot, Captain Robert K. Morgan gives last minute briefing and the crew boards the aircraft for their 25th bombing mission. Their airplane has 24 bombs painted on its side (one for each mission). They start their engines.
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