Securing the capture of Myitkyina airfield on May 19th ,1944 by Allied Forces during Burma Campaign of World War II. U.S. soldiers bring a wounded Japanese prisoner in jeep at Myitkyina airfield. Wounded soldiers on bamboo stretcher is lowered from jeep. Wounded Japanese prisoner is questioned by an intelligence officer using a map. Dead body of a Japanese sniper lying on ground near strip. U.S. soldiers sleep under shelter halves protected by blankets at airfield. Wounded Allied soldiers treated at mobile clinic. Dr. Gordon Seagrave operates a patient. U.S. Army Air Forces fighters overhead. Burmese nurses giving medical treatment and blood transfusion to patients.
Activities of U.S. 8th Army Air Forces in the European Theater during World War II. An airplane takes off from an airfield. Airplanes lined up on the airfield. They take off from the field and fly in formation overhead. Men load a bomb in the bomb bay of an airplane. A pilot in the cockpit of the airplane. Airplanes fly in formation. Airplanes parked on the airfield.
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.
P-47 aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Forces 365th and 368th Fighter Groups operating at the Chievres Airfield (A-84) in Chièvres Belgium, during World War 2. P-47 aircraft take off and land on muddy airfield. P-47s take off. Military vehicles drive through mud. Mobile control tower on airfield. Soldiers walk out of a tent looking at planes overhead. P-47s land. Trees in the background. 'Merry Xmas Hitler' written on a bomb. Pilot in the cockpit of P-47. Planes prepare to take off. P-47 of the 388th Squadron with nose art "Mike's Kite" seen as it starts to taxi and prepares for takeoff.
Adolf Hitler and German officers attend inspect and review test flights of new Luftwaffe aircraft in Rechlin, Germany. Hitler and Commander of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering, and other officers exit a railroad train at station. Officers at the platform greet Hitler and give a Nazi salute. They all move towards cars. The cars are driven off. Hitler waves at the crowd and greets a young girl who gives him flowers. At the airfield, Hitler and Goering view various aircraft with their entourage at Rechlin Airport. Goering points out a separate cockpit and engine displayed beside a bomber aircraft. A crew member assembling parts of an aircraft. Hitler watches the test flights of German aircraft. DFS 230 glider being towed on the ground for takeoff and then taking flight. Pilot and crew member crank start a fighter aircraft. Wide view of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 shortly after takeoff and gaining altitude. Next, a Blohm & Voss BV 141 tactical reconnaissance aircraft (BV 141A with complete tail) starts engine, taxis and takes off. Three Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft are seen taking off. The last He 111 appears to employ rocket-assisted takeoff (RATO). The entourage of officers crosses the airfield by open automobile and then exits the cars to view more aircraft. Views of early model Dornier Do 217 aircraft in flight overhead. A Junkers Ju 88 aircraft flies by low and then climbs steeply. Brief view of a low flying attack aircraft that appears to be a Henschel Hs 129 (or possibly a Focke Wulf Fw 187) flying just above the airfield. Next is seen a twin boom aircraft, presumably a Focke-Wulf Fw 189, but with a shorter central crew gondola than later variants. The next scene shows good views of the Blohm & Voss BV 141 low in flight and then performing a rapid ascent and descent. It is followed by a low flying Blohm & Voss BV 138 Seedrache (Sea Dragon).
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