Wreckage in France during World War II. A wrecked control tower. Rubble on an airfield. Interior of a damaged hangar. No smoking sign, in French, on wall of hangar (Defense de fumer)
P-47s of the 86th Fighter Group, distinguished by their bright red and white striped enpennages, are seen in operation at the Poretta Airfield, Casamozza, Corsica, during World War 2. Several P-47s (with razor back canopies) are seen parked on the field. One P-47 takes off and another lands.
A French Air Force P-47D Thunderbolt aircraft on an airfield. Damaged tail of the aircraft. A pilot in the cockpit of the airplane. Aircraft taxis short distance with wrecked tail, as debris near a wrecked hangar blows about from the prop wash. French and American soldiers examine the wrecked tail of the aircraft. (World War II period).
American fliers who escaped internment in Switzerland, pose in front of a C-47 aircraft at Annecy Airfield in World War 2. They wear clothes provided by sympathetic civilians, and kid about the way they fit. They are accompanied by a Free-French Commandant (equivalent to U.S. rank of Major) who wears rank insignia on shoulders of his uniform and the Cross of Lorraine and rank insignia on his black beret.
The history of aviation. An early model aircraft with rotor attachment between each wing is parked at an airfield. The airplane does not successfully take off.
A U.S. Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplane taxis and takes off from an airfield in the United States, that appears to have some construction work taking place on it (dump truck in background) during World War 2. The P-40's landing gear takes a long time to retract after takeoff, with the right gear lingering down, well after the left has retracted. Aloft, the P-40 maneuvers around a slow-moving light aircraft camera plane, joining up near it and flying rapidly away, and then diving toward it.
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