Heavy road rollers working to level a new captured airstrip on Leyte Island during World War 2. U.S. soldiers work laying down Marston Matting. General MacArthur and General G C Kenny visit base near Tacloban on Leyte, Philippine Island and inspect the Marston mat effort. Good views of low flying P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight just above the airfield. Japanese bomber aircraft is fired upon by forces at the airbase. View of aftermath of bombing on Air Base, with destruction seen. Japanese planes attack a supply depot and destroyer ships. Views of several Japanese kamikaze attack aircraft flying toward U.S. Navy ships in Leyte Gulf and being shot off course. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft crashes into a landing craft infantry (LCI).
Three F-86 Sabre jet aircraft take off in formation from runway. They make several successive passes in formation, over the field. A C-47 control aircraft is seen high above the airfield.
101st Airborne Troops (327th Infantry Regiment) seen lined up at an airfield. A Sergeant reads check-off list. Soldiers board a Fairchild C-123 Provider aircraft through its rear hatch.
Trucks and planes parked in the airfield. Soldiers of 101st Airborne Division carry their luggage as they climb ramp to board a C-124 plane.
British F.E.2 pusher biplanes take off on reconnaissance mission during Battle of Arras in World War I. A gunner checks his weapon in the front cockpit of an F.E.2. Ground crewman pulls prop through while another assists pilot. The engine starts. Another F.E.2 also starts and they both take off from the airfield. View from F.E.2 , at ten thousand feet, of French city on a river. Steam locomotive train seen crossing a railroad bridge over the river. View of German trenches and fortifications from altitude of thirteen thousand feet.
Soldiers of the Tsar's Russian Army encamped amidst heavy snowfall during World War I in Russia. Their guns are grouped and erected on ground. Soldiers line up for meal at field kitchen wagon. In Mediterranean area, military supply trucks move on road. At French airfield, officer smokes a cigarette, while standing by a Squadron flag on which is written: "F: 52". The pennant carries a War Cross decoration. Also shown is a Crescent and Star pennant with War Cross decoration. A bi-wing aircraft is visible in background and one is in a steep descent for a landing. A battery of French heavy guns fire from trenches. An artilleryman installs a fuse in a 12cm round, places it in the 12cm gun and the crew fires it. They eject the spent shell and reload and fire again. French gun crew loads and fires a Big Bertha gun. French gun crew aims a 320mm railway gun.
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