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Operations of United States 8th Air Force 492nd Bomb Group in England during World War II.

Operation Carpetbagger by the 492nd Bomb Group of United States 8th Air Force during World War II. View of automobile traffic on a London Street. London "Carpetbaggers" personnel working at the London headquarters of United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force. At Harrington field men load supplies on trucks for French resistance forces (Maquis, FFI). Men workout the daily packing schedule. Men pack guns, grenades, machine guns and other ammunitions. Special H containers and C containers for loading 303 ammunition. Boots, socks being packed. Gasoline Jerry cans being put in containers. Men place guns in containers. Instructions in French also placed with the supplies for the French resistance forces. Men pack explosives and radio sets. Medical supplies put in baskets. Harness and parachute shops in Holmes where men attach parachutes to containers. Packages being transported to airfield for dropping to the targets. A man on a telephone informs about the daily supplies to Special Forces headquarters in London. S-2, an intelligence officer forwards the list received from London. A man plots the target area on a map. In the weather room detailed map of the area is being prepared. Officers make a selection of the targets. S-2 informs the headquarters about the route of the planes. Supplies being loaded onto United States B-24 aircraft specially configured to carry and drop the containers using the bomb rack system in the aircraft. Flight crew is briefed before the operation. Chief Navigator talks about the course to be taken by the planes and the targets to be hit. Pilots work on a flight plan. Aircraft take off. An officer reports about the take off of the aircraft to the 8th Air Force headquarters.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1945
Duration: 15 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049535
Howard Hughes flies from Burbank to New York in Lockheed Super Electra.

A Lockheed Super Electra plane pushed out of a hangar in Burbank, California. Howard Hughes boards the aircraft and engine starts. Aircraft taxis along and takes off. Plane lands at an airfield in New York as a large crowd gathers to welcome him. Crowds cheer. Hughes in an interview expresses the desire to bring aviators from all over the globe together in New York.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1938, July 6
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049678
United Atates Air Force officers observe preliminary ground tests of Boeing DASH -80 experimental jet transport aircraft

United States Air Force Officers walk around Boeing DASH-80 experimentsl prototype aircraft parked at the Boeing field, Renton, Washington, United States. Views from vehicle riding on the airfield runway. Boeing Stratocruiser aircraft (Air Force C-135) seen parked beside the runway. Boeing test pilot, Tex Johnston, waves from cockpit of DASH-80, taxis it to runwah and makes high-speed run on the ground. He returns and parks. Boeing technicians crowd around and about the aircraft and pilot Johnston walks amongst them.

Location: Renton Washington USA
Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049707
Vultee V-1A aircraft "Lady Peace"seen from the air at start of round trip transatlantic flight

the "Lady Peace" Vultee V-1A takes off, from the Floyd Bennett Airfield,in Queensbury,Brooklyn,New York,on round trip transatlantic flight, Plane in flight over sea and a ship underway. Aerial view of the airstrip. Aircraft flies over Long Island and then Eastward over the Atlantic Ocean.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1936, September 2
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049740
United States P-47 aircraft takes off in a German city.

Allied aircraft in Germany during World War II. United States P-47 aircraft taxi along before taking off. Crew Chief on the wing of an aircraft gets into the cockpit of the plane. Crew Chief on the wing of the P-47 plane with a pilot in the cockpit. Aircraft taxis along the airfield and takes off.

Location: Germany
Date: 1945, May
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049771
Airmen of the U.S. 65th Fighter Squadron relaxing on Corsica during World War II.

Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert O. Wymond, Commander of the 65th Fighter Squadron relaxes on a Corsica beach. Lt. Chris Grissinger, army nurse and Wymond's future wife, playfully throws sand at him. Two airmen wade ashore, carrying three large jellyfish on a wooden plank.. Colonel Wymond, Major Francis S. "Spanky" Manda, and other officers sample some French wine at their club on the beach at Alto airbase, Corsica, France. The 65th Squadron Fighting Cock logo is displayed on the bar. P-47s of the 65th Fighter Squadron taxiing on their sandy airfield.

Location: Corsica France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049831
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