A U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-36 towed by a tug on an airfield. A crew member walks towards nose gear section of B-36. B-36 in flight and formations of B-3s. Animated map shows enemy territories across the world, and B-36s dropping bombs, wiping out enemy cities. Formation of four B-36 aircraft over clouds.
Bombing by Japanese forces in Shanghai as part of the so-called "January 28 Incident" or "Shanghai Incident." Chinese civilians rush on streets of the Bund during time of attacks by aircraft from Japan. A streetcar goes by and pedestrians quickly cross streets. Japanese Major Harada talks to Japanese pilots of 8th Japanese flying squadron at Japanese airfield. Japanese swift aircraft drops bombs on North Station and destroy ancient native Chapei section of Shanghai, China. Views of wrecked city, dead bodies on road. Civilians leaving in hand carts and trucks. Civilians crossing garden bridge. Chinese troops take up defensive positions behind sandbags in bombed area of city. Bagpipes announce arrival of Argyll and Sutherland Highland Regiments from the United Kingdom. United States Marines present and on patrol at American Concession, guarding the lives of nationals in Shanghai.
Debate about admission of Argentina during San Francisco Conference working toward United Nations Charter. Disabled and injured United States war veterans from World War 2 combat (mostly Navy in this image) enter the Veterans Memorial Opera House (War Memorial Opera House). View of interior of hall. Ezequiel Padilla, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico, addressing the gathering. Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov and an interpreter speaking, followed by secretary of States Edward Stettinius. Agenda of meeting is whether or not Argentina be invited for UN Security Conference. Chairman Anthony Eden calls for vote, Argentina is invited by a vote of 31 to 4. View of a parked Eastern Airlines silver liner parked at airfield in Washington DC, and new Ambassador Oscar Ibarra Garcia from Argentina emerges and is greeted by South American and United States officials. A person comes out of a U.S. aircraft and is received by authorities.
Wreckage of A-17 aircraft that crashed and burned on sidewalk and yard of a house at 1007 Scott Road, Burbank California, while attempting to land at the nearby Lockheed company airfield, on September 21, 1938. Army soldiers in uniform, and Local residents stand around the wreckage. Killed in the crash were: Major General Oscar Westover, Chief of the Army Air Corps, and Crew Chief, Staff Sergeant Samuel Hymes. There were no other casualties, but damage from fire can be seen on two of the nearby houses. People pick through the wreckage. Closeup of the propeller and engine cowling dug into the earth. Large group of spectators standing clear of the wreckage as several officials comb through it. An elderly man and woman, sit in their yard with a small child.
Female American pilot Jacqueline Cochran tests a fighter airplane. An aircraft lands at an airfield. Jacqueline Cochran smiles and waves from the cockpit. Crowds gathered under the control tower to watch Cochran’s flight. Cochran performs aerial stunts taking off from a platform on top of a moving car. A man on the ground demonstrates a wingsuit with flaps on his arms like wings. A parachutist jumps off from an airplane. Two white parachutes open in midair. Parachutist lands on the ground.
B-29 and P-51 planes of the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Mariana Islands. Two fighter planes P-51 Mustangs in flight. A lone P-51 plane flies over the airfield. A crashed P-51 plane on the ground. A truck and few soldiers stand near the crashed plane. A man holds a fire hose. A P-51 taxies and takes off. P-51 in flight. A bomber plane B-29 Superfortress taxies on the ground. (World War II period).
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