French North African Colonial troops board a C-47 aircraft. Equipment loaded onto plane at Gia Lam Airfield in Hanoi. The troops seated inside the C-47 aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. Numerous C-47 transport aircraft on the ground. General Salan converses with Deo-Van-Long, Chief of the Thai country. French Moroccan Colonial troops move off airfield, through village and towards an improvised camp. A C-47 takes off. Several oxen are seen on Laichau airfield. A radio operator seated alongside his equipment.
Activities of British paratroopers in North Africa. View of two British soldiers. Many U.S. Air Force C-47military transport aircraft parked at the airfield. British paratroopers stand in a group for final briefing before boarding aircraft. Planes parked in a line at the airfield. A soldier puts on a helmet. The paratroopers check each others' equipment. They board a plane. Views out the open rear door of the C-47 during takeoff. The field is filled with C-47s and a few other planes. View inside the C-47 cabin with paratroopers in the plane. Paratroopers jumping out the rear door. U.S. C-47s in formation flight. The planes land, one at a time back at the airfield. (World War II period).
View from underneath parked airplane, of several U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 lightning aircraft taking off in pairs at a German airfield occupied by the Allies. Camera viewpoint shifts to atop a B-17G bomber, being serviced. From there, a number of Republic P-47s are seen lined up. They begin to take off in pairs. A B-26 of of the 585th Bomb Squadron, is parked next to the B-17. Across the airfield, in the distance, more parked B-17s can be seen. This is an undamaged, well-established airfield, with concrete runways and ramps. Closeup of mechanics working on engine of the B-17. A refueling truck pulled up to the B-26.
YB-10 aircraft of the U.S.Air Corps 1934 Alaska Flight heading to Anchorage, Alaska. View of one of the aircraft as it takes off from Fairbanks. View out the window of one B-10, as another moves into formation off its left wing. Views from various angles in the airplane. Views of Anchorage, below. aircraft in formation passing over the Anchorage airfield. The camera airplane setting up on downwind leg to the field. Glimpse out right side window over the wing as the aircraft is on final approach near the field. YB-10s parked on Anchorage airfield, with lots of spectators and well-wishers to greet the fliers. Another B-10 landing, as Lieutenant Colonel Henry (Hap) Arnold and Major Ralph Royce watch, along with other fliers. The newly arrived B-10s taxiing to park. Panning view of the airfield, with B-10s parked in a line and spectators standing scattered about in the field. Mountains in background
Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour, in United States. An airfield with people moving about, during the Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour. The Henry Ford Museum in the background. An aircraft on the airfield. Several people lined on the side of the airfield. Three biplanes in flight. Two men with cowboy hats posing.
Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A trimotor aircraft on an airfield. A few men beside the aircraft. Two men and two children move from a vehicle towards the aircraft. A few men on the airfield. Other aircraft on the airfield. Henry Ford, ,son Edsel Ford and Edsel Ford's two sons, with the pilot beside the aircraft. Edsel Ford walks with his two sons towards the craft. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford talking with two other men beside the aircraft.
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