Final segment of "Army Air Forces special film project 151" known as "Wings for This Man". Third anniversary of United States Army Tuskegee Army Air Field being celebrated in August, 1944 during World War 2. Tuskegee Airmen U.S. African American cadets march. Commanding General U.S. Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command addresses the cadet soldiers, families and spectators assembled. Cadets march at the ceremony. P-40 airplanes seen parked at the airfield. Several P-40s taxiing. (note: narrated by Ronald Reagan)
Wounded U.S. soldiers evacuated from Taejon, Korea during Korean War. Wounded U.S. soldiers are being loaded into Red Cross ambulances at Taejon Airfield. Ambulance pulls up. Wounded soldiers on litters are carried into transport plane.
U.S. soldiers at an airfield in Taegu, South Korea. U.S. gun crew on alert at 50 caliber quadruple machine gun position, sandbags around position. One soldier points to the sky. Another soldier looks through field glasses. Planes parked on field in the background. Radar tent. Radar screen atop tent. Radar screen revolves.
U.S. 865th AAA (anti-aircraft artillery) battalion at airfield in Taegu, South Korea during Korean War. U.S. 40mm AAA gun crew atop hill overlooks the airstrip in Taegu. Men on alert around gun.
A film based on U.S. Air Force O-1F Bird Dog liaison aircraft FAC (forward air control) operations against the Ho Chi Minh Trail by U.S. 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. O-1Fs parked in the dearming area of an airfield.
U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers at an airfield in the United States during World War II. A B-29 that is being protectively sealed in preparation for painting. Fuselage and number 3 engine are sealed. Moveable scaffolding is in place and drums of liquid are on the ground. Painter begins process of sealing an engine nacelle, by taping opening. He then sprays a synthetic "spider web" of material over the opening. Similar material is sprayed into various openings of the aircraft, until a fabric is formed over them. Finally, preformed sheets of fabric are used to seal other sensitive seams on the airframe and trailing edges of wings..
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