View from moving boat on Potomac River as it approaches docks for "Suitland Hall" Air Force facility in Washington DC. Scene then changes to view of Andrews Air Force Base and building for the Headquarters of the Military Air Transport Service. A C-121 Constellation aircraft parked on airfield at Andrews Air Force Base. C-47 Skytrain taxis into parking space. Airman pushes hospital ramp up to C-47 Skytrain. Wounded man on litter carried out of the aircraft into waiting ambulance. View of Bethesda Naval Hospital and then a view of the Walter Reed Army Hospital building. Early 1950s era cars parked in front of the Senate Building in Washington DC. 1950s cars move by on roads and streets of Washington DC in front of Federal buildings. Exerior views of the Museum of Natural History, and of the Mellon Art Gallery and National Museum of Art. Inside the American National Air Museum, a close up view of the Bell X-1, USAF aircraft #46-062, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis.
Film opens showing a U.S. Air Force C-124 taxiing in the snow, on four engines at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Canada. It has flaps set at takeoff position. Next, the aircraft takes off somewhat obscured by snow. Hazy view through snow of several C-124 aircraft parked on the airfield ramp. Glimpse of one aircraft taking off toward the camera. More aircraft parked on the snowy ramp. Two C-124s being serviced on the ramp. Air crew gathered beneath one. Change of scene to air crews being briefed in an auditorium.
1st Division Marine troops drive in a United States Army Jeep near a phosphate plant at Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II. Marines with Doberman dog walk behind the Jeep. Group of Marines eat canned food. A power shovel dumps coral into truck for airfield construction. Trucks dump the coral load.
U.S. 1st Marine Division operations on Peleliu, during World War 2. U.S. F4U Corsair aircraft, flying low and slow, with gear down, drop napalm incendiary bombs on Japanese troops dug in on a ridge. Huge explosions seen. A C-47 transport airplane taxis on airfield. F4U Corsairs are seen parked and tents are pitched nearby.Several C-47s are parked on a ramp. Three F4Us taxi past them headed to the runway. F4Us take off and one is seen bombing Japanese positions on the ridge. Slate notes 1st Marine Division and D+24. Major General William Henry Rupertus,kneels on one knee, in sand, as another officer (shirtless) briefs him. They briefly discuss tactics and then walk away. Marine rifleman firing into burning wreckage of a Japanese position. Marine firing grenade from his rifle. Two Marines stand on beach with LVT (landing vehicle tracked) on the sand, nearby. They point at large ship offshore. Views of the Peleliu beachhead, with numerous ships and landing craft beached, including the second USS Seaward (LST 278) that collided with LST-129 and suffered considerable damage, On October 2, 1944. (LST-129 may be the LST seen next to LST-278.)
U.S. 1st Division marines, in mopping up operations, climb out of a valley onto a ridge containing Japanese fortifications and guns, that overlook the airfield at Peleliu Island, during World War 2. Upon the ridge, a marine poses next to a Japanese 200mm coastal defense gun. Closeup of the controls for the gun. A marine examines another Japanese coastal defense gun.Views of other damaged Japanese artillery and a machine gun. Bodies of several dead Japanese soldiers seen near the artillery pieces.
The battle of Peleliu during World War 2. F4U Corsair aircraft of U.S. Marine Aircraft Group 11, dive to attack Japanese positions near the beachhead on Peleliu Island. Two U.S. M4A2 tanks of the 1st Marine Tank Battalion are seen on the airfield. Closeup of a knocked-out grass-camouflaged Japanese tank with two dead Japanese soldiers lying next to it. Marines unload shells from LVT (landing Vehicle Tracked) as F4U flies low dropping bombs in background. Smoke rises from bomb burst. Marines watch the bombing activity,.
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