The U.S. Army plans an attack at Munda Point on New Georgia group of Islands, Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. Marines and infantry massed up on Guadalcanal beach prepare for the invasion of Munda Point. Gasoline barrels rolled on the beach. Crated and canned foods in cargo nets hoisted aboard ships. Equipment is loaded onto ships. U.S. combat aircraft assemble for an aerial offensive. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur gets out of car and talks with another U.S. officer. General MacArthur, U.S. 13th Air Force Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon, U.S. Army Air Force General Nathan Twining and U.S. Fleet Admiral William Halsey coordinate the attack on Munda Point. U.S. Army Air Force P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft taxi and take off from an airfield. U.S. planes including P-40 Warhawk, P-39 Airacobra, U.S. Navy F4F Wildcat, TBF Avenger, B-25 Mitchell, and B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight head to destroy Japanese enemy positions on Munda. Japanese aircraft take off and in flight.
Damage at Munda Point, Solomon Islands after U.S. 13th Air Force bombardment during World War II. The damage is surveyed by U.S. officers. Wreckage of Japanese aircraft and installations. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers are removed by U.S. troops. Gun emplacements are made. Bulldozers level the ground. Heavy construction equipment is operated to level a hill. U.S. bomber aircraft on a flight line at a newly constructed U.S. airfield. A bomber takes off from an airstrip.
Tests of non-persistent gas munitions during U.S. chemical warfare tests near San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. Tests of non-persistent gas on ship targets are carried out. A stationary ship in water on which tests are to be carried out. Goats are loaded aboard the ship to represent Japanese personnel. Testing stations are set up at the bow, the stern and on varying heights by U.S. Army personnel. A man works with a gas concentration sampling instrument at a testing station aboard the ship. Goats wearing gas masks fitted with Japanese canisters are placed on the testing station. Bombs are loaded on U.S. 6th Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers at an airfield for carrying out the tests. The bombs are dropped from the B-24s near the test ship. Gas clouds cover the target completely after bursts on water. A man examines protected and unprotected goats killed by gas concentration. Attack on various vessels.
A film based on flight operations of U.S. Navy F8U-1 Crusader fighter plane in the United States. An F8U-1 makes a landing approach. The pilot places the defog switch to defog and regulates the cabin temperature switch on the instrument panel. An aerial view of a field. The plane with cruise droop out and landing gear dropped makes a landing approach. An animation depicts landing altitude established. The F8U-1 lands on an airstrip. It taxis and slows down along the airstrip. It makes a crosswind landing. U.S. Army personnel work on the F8U-1 parked on the airfield.
African American soldiers of the U.S. Army undergo a training in Astoria, New York during World War II. African American pilots, possibly Tuskegee Airmen, walk toward airplanes parked on an airfield. The airplanes take off. An African American pilot in a cockpit. A formation of airplanes. U.S. Army half tracks advance across a field and fire as they go. African American soldiers crawl and run during the combat training.
Allied flyers (mostly American) who escaped from internment in Switzerland, pose in front of a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport airplane, at Annecy Airfield, France, during World War 2. A C-47 seen taking off from the field.
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