During visit to 101st Airborne Division at RAF Welford airfield in Berkshire County, England, General Eisenhower is seen smiling while standing on a reviewing platform, along with British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill,Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, and Brigadier General Maxwell Taylor, Commander of the 101st. Eisenhower smiles and uses binoculars to watch as 1,500 U.S. paratroopers are dropped from C-47 transport aircraft flying overhead. After the demonstration, Churchill, Eisenhower, and Taylor,enter the back back seat of an open Dodge 3/4-ton T214 vehicle, being used as a staff car. The car proceeds along a road, with driver and a British official in the front seat. Colonel George S. Wear, Commander,327th Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR), is seen standing with officers of his unit. Prime Minister Churchill addresses troopers of the 101st Division, while standing in the staff car. General Eisenhower stands among the soldiers listening. Colonel Wear and officers of the 327th GIR, including a Chaplain, are seen applauding.
Seen from inside the airplane, a "stick" of U.S. paratroopers jumps from open door of a C-47 during a World War 2 practice exercise in England. Aircraft crewmen retrieve their static lines after they jump. An aerial view from adjacent airplane, of paratroopers jumping from a C-47. View of the formation flying South to North over RAF Ramsbury in Wiltshire (home to the 437th Troop Carrier Group between Feb 44 and Feb 45). Numerous hardstands can be seen on the airfield, below, as paratroopers jump from aircraft. A U.S. paratrooper captain leads his men in a jump. A formation of C-47s overhead with parachutes deployed below them. Close views of paratroopers hitting the ground after the jump. Camera focusing on a single paratrooper, as he descends, hits the ground, flips over, and is dragged by his still open chute.
U.S. Navy Curtiss airplanes are released for the Allies in Buffalo, New York during World War II. The new airplanes parked at an airfield. Men working on the airplanes. An aircraft takes off and in flight overhead.
U.S. Army Air Corps Third Aviation Instruction Center in Issoudun, France during World War I. Airplanes parked on an airfield. Students standing near an airplane. An officer briefs them. They pose. They do calisthenics.
U.S. Army Air Corps Third Aviation Instruction Center in Issoudun, France during World War I. Airplanes parked at an airfield. Buildings in the background. Students standing near the airplanes. Two students at the controls of an airplane. One of them comes out of the cockpit.
U.S. Army Air Corps Third Aviation Instruction Center in Issoudun, France during World War I. Students standing near an airplane. One of the students sits in the cockpit. The airplane taxis and takes off. Other airplanes parked on the airfield. The airplane in flight overhead. The students demonstrate maneuvers.
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