Selected Historical AAF Scenes, WWI and WWII

About this film

"Historical scenes: WWI. Tent hangar opens and biplane is pushed out. CU, map of St. Mihiel, France. Biplanes lined up on field. Pilots get planes and start engines. Biplanes taxi and take off. Planes zoom directly over camera. Germans load bombs into German plane. HS, WW I battlefield. Soldiers advancing. Man in cockpit of biplane drops bomb into battlefield, flying in formation directly overhead. WW I dogfight. Planes landing. Plane in foreground is tipped over. WW II. Burning map of Europe. MS, Adolf Hitler looking up at sky. Eiffel Tower in background. German troops marching past Arc de Triomphe. Wright glider glides down hill. Men turn Wright prop plane around and spin the props. CU, engine of Wright plane. Historical scenes: CU, Orville Wright. One of the Wright brothers fixes wheel under wing of plane. Horses pull the plane across field. Men turn the plane around. Men pull up catapult weight. Props are spun and two men climb aboard. Plane takes off. Group of men duck as plane circles. Planes of the Lafayette Escadrille lined up on field. Pilots climb aboard and start to take off. Pilots get assignments in outdoor shack; they walk off to biplanes and check them. Two men climb…

Directors & creators

United States. Air Force

Subjects

WWII, WWI, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, American, Dancing Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial Operations, United States. Army Air Forces, World War, 1914-1918, Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, World War, 1939-1945, Airplanes, Military, Wright, Orville, 1871-1948, World War I, World War II

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