U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighters during Mariana campaign of World War 2. Depicts some crashes and battle damage to aircraft on Aslito Airfield (Isley Field) Saipan in Mariana Islands. Opening scene shows P-47D number 43-25324 "Bouncin Bette" of the 19th Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group, with severe battle damage from a Japanese 40mm Flak round. This plane was damaged on a raid over Pagan Islands. Mechanics checking over the plane and removing a damaged wing section from it. View across island showing huge crater at a crash site. Huge crowd of U.S. military personnel kept well back from the scene, in the background. Stretcher bearers running out and placing the dead pilot onto the stretcher. Scattered plane and a piece of engineering equipment which the plane crashed into showing the remains of both plane and the engineering equipment. Firemen fighting the fire on burning U.S. Navy FM-2 WIldcat aircraft. that crashed. Several men throwing dirt with shovels onto the burning remains of the plane. Men attending memorial services for lost pilots. Two P-47s buzzing the airfield. P-61 aircraft engines turning over as P-47s making landing. P-61 taking off at dusk. Aerial formation of P-47s buzzing the field at dusk. Aerial formation of four P-47s.
U.S. bombers and fighters on an airfield in Belgium. An A-26 Invader bomber aircraft approaches for landing. P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft in flight. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft land. P-47s on a landing roll. One P-38 lands. P-47 makes a landing on the airstrip. (Note: P-47s are from 365th Fighter Group, 387th Fighter Squadron, and airfield is possibly Florennes/Juzaine (A-78) Belgium.)
Exercise Bright Star 80 in Egypt. United States 101st Airborne division soldiers inside a hovering helicopter in Egypt. Soldiers look down from the helicopter. They rappel down a rope from the helicopter and land at airfield tarmac. Soldiers land at the airfield.
A formation of seven de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft are seen above the Gilze Rijen Air Base in Holland, during NATO Exercise Cirrus, in 1951. They peel off and commence landing in a tactical trail formation at the airfield. The camera follows the first to land as it passes two C-119 aircraft of the U.S. 443rd Troop Carrier Group on the airfield. Next, one of the C-119s is seen taxiing.
Allied airfields in Germany during World War II. United States aviation engineers drive stakes into holes as a man uses hammer for the purpose as they construct an air field. Corrugated metal hard stand lay out by men. Men roll out tar paper for hard stand. Aviation engineers at an under construction airfield. Men drive stakes and thread corrugated hardstand. United States P-47 aircraft taxi along the field and take off. Other P-47 aircraft taxi along before take off.
United States Army Air Corps aircraft. A Bell YFM-1 Airacuda taking off and seen in-flight. Close views of this unusual design with twin pusher-propellers behind greenhouse-nosed nacelles with cannons. American aircraft takes off from an airfield. Aerial views of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight. Close view of the cockpit area, and then side view of the entire aircraft in flight. A British Royal Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator takes off from an airfield and its landing gear is seen retracting horizontally beneath the wings.
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