U.S. Army paratroopers are seen heading toward C-47 transport planes and boarding them for a planned post-war airborne exercise in the Philippines. A large number of C-47 transport aircraft are seen with engines running on an airfield. They begin to taxi out for takeoff. View of a C-47 plane in flight, carrying an advance trooper who parachutes out carrying a radio beacon which he is next seen setting up the "Eureka" part of Signal Corps "Rebecca/Eureka" system. Closeup of the equipment and the trooper setting it up. He assembles a long radio antenna attached to the transmitter. View of three C-47 aircraft in flight heading toward the paratrooper drop zone. Animated drawing shows how the aircraft, carrying the "Rebecca" airborne interrogators, home in on the Eureka signal from the ground. Next, paratroopers are seen exiting aircraft over the drop zone. View from another airplane of the troopers' chutes opening and them descending from the C-47s. Parachutes are silhouetted against cloudy skies. Paratroopers landing, some roughly, on the ground.
A still photograph of a U.S. Navy Curtiss NC-4 Aircraft. It was the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in a 1919 flight to Lisbon spanning 19 days with multiple stops. Civilian men and women standing near the airplane on an airfield.
A still photograph of Master Sergeant George Holmes at an airfield in the United States, taken in the 1920s. Master Sergeant George Holmes in his youth. Buildings in the background. He is wearing an Army Air Service uniform and pilot headgear that extends down to include neck coverage. Circa 1920s.
U.S. aircraft parked and operating at German airfield near end of World War 2. United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning and German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (stork) German liaison aircraft parked on the base. P-38 twin engine fighters, P-47 fighters, and C-47 transport aircraft taxiing and taking off from the air base. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft parked at the air base.
Scenes of hurricanes and related damage. A U.S. fletcher class destroyer and then two U.S. Heavy cruisers making way in very heavy seas. Huge waves blowing over a waterfront. Palm trees blowing and deciduous trees falling to hurricane winds. A man attempting to walk against hurricane force winds and rain. Hurricanes battering an airfield. Wind and water driving against a hotel, and downed wires exploding in rain filled street. A man in waist deep water. Scenes of severe flooding, including a flooded convertible car Aerial views of heavy cumulus clouds. Homes and vehicles completely inundated by flood waters. A derailed railroad train. Men combing through debris in aftermath of a hurricane. Completely destroyed homes.
Numerous views of abandoned German 88mm flak antiaircraft guns as seen by invading American forces during their incursions deep into Germany in final month of World War 2, in Europe. Many have barrels broken or spiked. At least one appears intact, pointed vertically toward the sky. These guns appear to surround an airfield or other open space.
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