U.S. Air Force X-15A rocket powered aircraft in flight in the United States. A USAF NB-52B Stratofortress aircraft taxis along an airfield. An X-15A aircraft under the wing of the NB-52B aircraft. The NB-52B aircraft takes off . Animated map depicts the flight of the X-15A aircraft to Edwards Air Force Base in California. Two men enter a building with a sign on it that reads 'National Aeronautics and Space Administration'. A woman and a man at controls inside the NASA building. Two men on the top of the building as they look through binoculars. The NB-52B aircraft in flight with the X-15A under its wing. Two technicians plot the course of flight of the NB-52 on a plotting board. Technicians at controls at the NASA. The X-15A aircraft detaches from the NB-52B aircraft.
Opening scene shows a Boeing B-24 Liberator bomber arriving at an airfield in the Caribbean during World War 2 . U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt steps from the aircraft, stopping here on one of her many trips. She strolls among U.S. servicemen and others. She is escorted by a General and reviews American Troops on parade at an army base. Scene shifts abruptly to the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney in New South Wales Sydney Australia, where the Australian Destroyer, Bataan, is being Christened on 15 January 1944 by Jean MacArthur, the wife of General Douglas MacArthur. Dockyard workers drive wedges from beneath the destroyer's hull, to free her for launching. Mrs. MacArthur announces the name, Bataan, and swings a bottle of champaign to christen her. The ship proceeds down the ways. View from below of sailors on deck as she launches.
Film about the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, during World War II. Scenes shortly after the attack: Partially sunken US Navy ship in Pearl Harbor. The flag of the United States in the foreground. A wrecked aircraft missing the rear of the airplane. A damaged hangar at an airfield. Type written notes of the U.S. War Department and the U.S. Secretory of Navy seeking information about the attack.
Smoke rising from bombs exploding almost obscures bombs dropping from B-29s on a large Japanese city, on a river, during World War 2. B-29s seen passing through the smoke, as viewed from the camera plane flying above them. Scene shifts to an airfield, where a P-51D Mustang fighter plane is landing, while another is taxing the opposite way, along the other side of the runway. Other U.S. Army Air Forces warplanes seen in the background include: B-29s and B-24s. The P-51 lands, while watched by a group of airmen standing by with crash equipment and fuel trucks, parked next to a large tent. It pulls off the active towards the group of airmen. Another P-51 lands as two take off from midfield. Several airmen watch the operations, atop a hill where they are silhouetted against the sky.
United States Army Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A B-29 Superfortress taxis slowly on a runway at an airfield. The back view of an aircraft director directing the B-29 Superfortress forward. Crewmen leave the small hatch of the B-29 Superfortress and jump on the ground. Crewmen including a caption and a pilot chat while smoking. Two B-29 Superfortress land one behind the other. The first aircraft taxis forward. The second aircraft crashes and spins around in the background. Vehicles including a fire brigade driven on the runway. Firefighters spray water through hoses on the crashed aircraft. Men in the rubble of the aircraft.
U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall narrates film and is shown several times speaking seated at a desk. Marshall praises the Pacific Forces. Close up view of several U.S. military officers including General MacArthur (with a bandage over his right ear). Scene of U.S. Marines in combat on a Pacific Island during World War 2. U.S. marines advancing under fire. An enemy soldier is fallen in the distance, followed by a group of Japanese soldiers running for cover. Gun camera footage of a strafing attack by a U.S. aircraft on a Japanese ship, followed by strafing of parked Japanese airplanes at an airfield. Mid air dogfight scene is shown as a U.S. warplane hits and downs a Japanese aircraft. View on deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ship as a Japanese kamikaze aircraft bears down toward the ship, is hit by ship's guns, loses a wing, and, in flames, crashes into the ocean just off the ship. Scenes at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack in 1941, as medics care for wounded U.S. sailors in stretchers. Japanese soldiers seizing control in Bataan, with U.S. soldiers holding their hands up in surrender. Also U.S. soldiers in Corregidor standing by as they are addressed by Japanese captors. Scenes of Japanese soldiers in drills and training. Japanese Emperor Hirohito on horse back during a military parade. Scenes of dead Japanese soldiers laying on battle fields after battle. View of industrial smoke stacks of a factory in Japan. Japanese workers producing steel and munitions for war effort. Japanese soldiers cheering at a military rally. George Marshall speaks urging commitment by every American citizen in the war effort. Caricature image of Axis leaders Hitler and Mussolini with "X" marks over them, beside a non-marked image of Japanese General Hideki Tojo. Clip closes with several scenes of American flags being raised on flagpoles of military bases all over the world, as soldiers, sailors, marines, women WACS soldiers, and airmen salute the American flag.
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