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Mechanics performing maintenance on P-47s of 365th and 368th Fighter Group, in Chievres Belgium, during World War II

Scenes at the U.S. Army Air Corps 365th Fighter Group and 368th Fighter Group base at Chievres Airfield (A-84) in Chièvres Belgium, during World War II. Mechanics changing wheel and tire on a P-47 thunderbolt airplane. P-47 named "Mortician's Delight" is seen (Lt. Neal Worley of 387th Squadron). Olive drab razor back P-47 and an shiny aluminum P-47 with bubble canopy, parked on a hard stand with maintenance equipment around them. Maintenance truck with "Hard Luck (T.S.)" painted on its back. Mechanics performing maintenance on several P-47s. Runway controller with signal light at side of runway, with P-47 landing and one waiting to take off, in the background.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045686
P-47 aircraft take off from the muddy air base in Chievres Belgium.

P-47 aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Forces 365th and 368th Fighter Groups taking off and landing at the Chievres Airfield (A-84) in Chièvres Belgium, during World War II. P-47 Thunderbolt airplanes take off from the muddy air base. Trees in the background. Airplanes parked on the air base show nose art including "Slick Chick" (piloted by 368th Fighter Group Commander, Lt. Col. Frank Perego). Airplanes in formation. Military vehicle pass on the air base and a P-47 takes off. Visible in the distance near the end of the clip is the parked P-47 "Arkansas Traveler" of the 396th Squadron (pilot Paul Douglas).

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045687
Latécoère 521 flying boat in operation. Hitler flies Lufthansa Junkers Ju-52 to visit troops in the field.

Views of a Latécoère 521 flying boat powered by six 860 hp Hispano-Suiza 12Ydrs engines configured with four pusher puller engines inboard and two pullers (tractor engines) outboard It is being lowered by a crane into the water. Straps and cables support the flying boat beneath the crane. View of starboard tractor engines running. A crew member wearing goggles seen near open hatch. Stern view of the flying boat on takeoff across the water, with wake visible behind. Navigator bending over charts at his work station.Crew member speaks to another wearing headset. Ship seen underway below. Sailor with binoculars out a hatch on the flying boat. Closeup of the freighter from above. She displays a Maltese cross on her funnel and and plain cross on her hull. A crewman aboard the flying boat photographs the ship. Views of the ship as the flying boat passes above her. Scene shifts to a crew member crawling through a tunnel between compartments. He speaks to an officer from the tunnel. Brief view of navigator adjusting gyroscopic compass in roof of his compartment. Radio operator at his station,moving a loop antenna to determine signal direction. Pilot at the controls receives message from a crew member.Views of an airfield. .Several small warplanes and a Junkers JU-52 are parked on the field. What appear to be many bomb craters cover an area on the field. Ground view of aircraft wreckage. a line of Henschel HS 126A-1 utility aircraft. Damaged biplane with bent prop. Junkers Ju-52 taxiing with Adolf Hitler seen inside.Soldiers waving goodbye, as the Ju-52 takes off.The Lufthansa Ju-52 airborne. Hitler inside the cabin chatting with an officer. The aircraft landing, and Hitler being greeted by the local commanding officer. Hitler and officers taking lunch at an outdoor field kitchen. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675045792
German pilots scramble to board ME-109 aircraft during World War 2 in the European Theater.

Ground crew members flash a searchlight in the European Theater. A German guard stands near a pole. Germans operate a radar machine. German women radio receivers work receiving updates on enemy positions. A woman writes a message and raises her hand for another woman to take and deliver it. High-ranking German officers marking a spot on a large wall map. Officers seated at table. German radio operators at work, wearing headphones, listening to transmissions and taking notes. German officers work on a large table map. German pilots resting in a barracks on bunks while other play cards. Siren sounds and they scramble and run out of building. German pilots run up to a long line of ME-109s. They climb into the cockpits of ME-109 aircraft. Ground crew starts plane. ME-109 taxi and take off from the airfield. A German writes on a chart. Crew operates a searchlight. A plane in flight. A German draws on a wall map. Searchlight flashed on the flying plane.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675045797
Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G3M aircraft is demonstrated before a huge crowd of civilians at an air show in Japan.

A Japanese Imperial Navy Mitsubishi G3M aircraft (Type 96, code name:: Nell) takes off in front of a huge crowd of Japanese civilian spectators at an air show in Japan. View of the tremendous crowd watching on the airfield. View of the aircraft flying overhead (and glimpse of another also in flight).

Date: 1940
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675045807
Japanese Army and Navy Mitsubishi bombers in World War II

Opening scene shows Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21 aircraft, Army Type 97 heavy bomber (Allied code name: Sally) flying in formation. Closeup from inside an aircraft, of gunner manning machine gun in the nose. View from aircraft of Bombs falling on industrial target. View from cockpit of explosions from bomb strikes. Scene shifts to a group of Japanese Imperial Navy Mitsubishi G3M aircraft (Type 96, code named: Nell) on an airfield, with engines running. A Japanese admiral, in dress whites, speaks to pilots, who are dressed in white flight suits. The pilots then march in loose formation past an honor guard of Naval officers and sailors assembled at the entrance of a hangar. The pilots and their well-wishers exchange salutes. Some G3M airplanes take off. A formation of them silhouetted in flight overhead. View of them in formation over a cloud cover. View from a Japanese aircraft dropping bombs on targets in a river gorge.

Date: 1941
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675045808