Wounded crewmen of U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in England during World War II. Large number of other airmen crowd around a B-17 as wounded crewmen are removed from it. B-17 parked on an airfield. An ambulance pulls away. The wounded crewmen are carried on stretchers.
U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in England during World War II. Members of crew inspect the damage on a B-17 parked at an airfield. Its number 3 engine is feathered. The crew members stand near the nose of the B-17. Damaged elevators of the B-17. A hole in the side of the aircraft. The damaged nose of the B-17. Interiors of the aircraft showing damage. Crew members talk to each other in the B-17. An airman opens bomb bay doors of the aircraft to show the damage.
U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombers during World War II. A tail gunner in a B-17. Chart used by weather briefer shows vertical view of conditions from ground to 25,000 feet (mission altitude). Formation positions are shown on blackboard with aircraft positions by pilot names. A chaplain blesses B-17s as they take off in the background at an airfield in England. A B-17 in flight over Europe during a mission. The top turret of the B-17 fires. A waist gunner fires a gun.
A film titled 'Aerial supply to Burmese outposts' based on establishing and supplying observation posts of the Allies in jungles of Assam-Burma frontier during World War II. Native workers carry equipment and cross a river followed by U.S. soldiers. Troops reach a camp site and native workers are paid off by a soldier. Shacks are being built by a native labor. U.S. soldiers at camps in forward post bathing and shaving. Once the observation post is set up, the soldiers climb up a lookout post ladder on the top of which a warning system is maintained. Native laborers make baskets at a supply post which will be used as containers for parachute supplies dropped. Ration crates are being brought at an airfield depot from a quarter master depot for shipment. The crates are weighed and the containers are packed with straw. Parachutes are attached and the containers are ready for shipment. The material is taken to a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport airplane and is loaded aboard. The pilot is briefed at a map which indicates the locations of the camps where the supplies are to be dropped.
A dramatization detailing ASR (Air Sea Rescue) of U.S. 8th Air Forces crew members in European Theater during World War II. Rescue aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt fighters take off from English airfield. Airborne time is imposed on status board in control room by an officer. Same procedure is followed for PBY Catalina flying boat as it taxis and takes off from runway. Officer over phone notifies ASR. Planes head for their prearranged patrol points. High speed launchers and motorboats of British Royal Navy underway. Shows U.S. 8th Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress going down on water after being hit. Pilot contacts ASR in England and speaks about ditching of B-17. Fixer station located on the English coast. Electronic Position Indicator (EPI) antenna mast used in Bering Sea operations and antenna receiving bearings on B-17. Door sign reads Triangulation Room. Officers in room plot the bearings on B-17 on a circular map. Last position of B-17 is determined by the triangulation process. ASR controller giving out ditching position on radio to crew member of PBY Catalina. PBY Catalina flies low over water. Crew members of B-17 on raft underway. PBY Catalina overhead. PBY lands on water for rescue of B-17 crews. PBY takes off after the crew boards the plane. Rescue operation for another 8th Air Force plane shows a plane descending over water. Parachute descends over water.
The British forces in India as they plan for their operations in Burma during World War II. Crew seated on the airfield. Plane parked in the background. They sit near the plane and pose. They erect tents on a field. A truck passes on the field. A man examines the teeth of a pilot. Women of the Red Cross serves meals to them.
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