Selected Historical AAF Scenes, WWI
and WWII
National Archives Identifier: 28981 (OPA - Online Public
Access) listed as "Selected scenes from US Air Force for proj.
223-12040"
Records of
the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985
National
Archives Identifie:440
"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 into cockpits of plane.
Plane starts to take off.
CU, pilot in cockpit of
airborne biplane. Bombs drop from plane.
MS, President
Woodrow Wilson at desk. Red Cross girls give coffee to
troops at dock. Men being checked before boarding ship.
Troopship leaving. WW II dance. Soldiers and WACs dancing."