Aviation activities in France during World War I. A French Spad 7 C.1 aircraft with a stork insignia parked at an airfield near Grandvilliers, France. 1st Lieutenant J. C. Brown Escadrille No. 67 of the 12th Group of Storks stands near the aircraft. He climbs into the cockpit of the aircraft. Lt. G. R. Mellin, Escadrille No. 8, seated in cockpit of a Spad 7 C.1. 1st Lt. J. C. Brown seated in the cockpit of his aircraft.
Aviation activities in France during World War I. A Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft parked at an airfield in Meuse, France. French pilots and observers of the 28th Escadrille of the French Army stand beside the aircraft. A man in the observer's cockpit turns a machine gun left and right at the aviation camp. Lieutenant Asnard of the 28th Escadrille standing in the observer's cockpit of the Salmson 2 A.2 turns a machine gun left and right and aims it. White Elephant insignia on a side of the aircraft. Captain Paul Daum, Commanding Officer of the 28th Escadrille, stands in the observer's cockpit of a Salmson 2 A.2 working with a machine gun and removes ammunition canisters. A group of officers of the 28th Escadrille stands beside a Salmson 2 A.2. These include Capt. Paul Daum, Capt. Morette of the Aero Photo Section, pilot Lt. Lucien Dautresme, pilot Lt. Dupont, observer Lt. Asnard, observer Lt. Blanc, observer Lt. Mettas, observer Lt. Boug and pilot Adj. Moulon.
National Program for air-warfare in Russia. A formation of Russian aircraft flies overhead. The formation of Russian aircraft forms a star. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Marshal Joseph Stalin standing at an airfield and talks to staff officers. A formation of four-engine Russian bombers in low flight overhead. Paratroopers bail out of the airplanes.
British pilots fly over the West Wall to photograph enemy (Germans) forts and troop concentrations in Eastern France, early during British Expeditionary Force involvement in France, during World War 2. British fliers stand near aircraft of the Royal Air Force. They look at a map. British pilots get into aircraft. An obstacle in front of the wheel of an aircraft is removed. The aircraft takes off over the West Wall to photograph enemy (Germans) forts and troop concentrations. Trucks in a forest. Men work in a trench. A British personnel holding equipment in his hands smiles. Airfields are prepared: Trees are cut and a bulldozer passes along a road to level the land. The aircraft lands. The pilot goes into a tent. He looks at photographs. One British personnel inspects holes in a wall. British soldier carries a live goose away. A British soldier pushes a cart loaded with drums or barrels. A French woman stands outside a house and then quickly turns and runs back in the house. British military personnel read newspapers. They congregate at a bar and reach for bottles of alcohol on the bar.
A U.S. Air Force trooper carrier Douglas C-124 Globemaster aircraft is seen parked at the Orly Airfield, in France, with some men standing beneath it. Close-up of two U.S. Air Force officers conversing with a French Paratroop officer (in civilian clothes, but wearing a foulard) and a French military officer, in trench coat and overseas cap. View shifts to French paratroopers, carrying their gear and entering the C-124 aircraft by way of its ramps lowered from the open clamshell door. Glimpse from inside the aircraft cabin of the troopers approaching in a long line. View, from below and behind the open doors, of troopers walking up the ramps. Close-up of troopers with duffle bags passing the camera. Interior of the C-124 seen from the ramp entrance, as aircraft crew members walk to the ladder leading to the upper crew compartment. More views of French troopers, with gear, boarding the aircraft. View of cabin where troopers are seated, and the Air Force crew's loadmaster is securing some of the cargo with tie down straps. The American aircraft commander, dressed in flight suit, shakes hands with French officers, and signs something, before departing. People standing nearby as the aircraft clamshell door is closed. View of engines being started and the C-124 taxiing out. "Troop Carrier, United States Air Force," written on the aircraft fuselage. The aircraft number shown on nosewheel door is "094." Another C-124 (Number "263") is seen taxiing. Slight out-of -sequence scene shows a fireguard standing with fire bottle beside aircraft "263,"as it starts engine number three, and then walks to engine four, for its start. Next shot is of aircraft "094," with engines running and some last minute item being loaded through the front hatch. French military waving goodbye. One of the C-124s taking off and breaking ground. followed later, by the second. The two U.S. Air Force officers with French Paratroop officer in civilian clothes and a uniformed officer in overseas cap (seen at beginning of film) watch the departing aircraft.
Operations of the U.S. Army Air Forces 394th Fighter Squadron, 367th Fighter Group, at Juvincourt Airfield (Advanced Landing Ground A-68) in France, during Winter of 1944, World War 2. The entire field is covered in snow. Pilots ride to their P-38 aircraft on a train of sleds, pulled by a Carl Eliason Motor Toboggan (Made by Four Wheel Drive Auto Company of Clintonville, Wisconsin). Pilots playfully brush some snow toward the camera as they pass. They stop to let a pilot off at his P-38 (reportedly the pilot is Jack Hallett). Next, P-38 aircraft are seen taxiing for takeoff over the snow, and then, flying very low over the field. The sound of gunfire is heard in the background. An abandoned (crash-landed) RAF Avro Lancaster bomber is seen collapsed on its left wing and elevator, in the snow. (It has been suggested that this might be Lancaster serial no ME850 LS-D of XV squadron RAF that crash landed on January 1st, 1945 or Lancaster VN-G of 50 SQN that crashed there on the same day.)
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