From First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces Studios
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1943
Reconnaissance Pilot
Reconnaissance Pilot1 1943 HD
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over...
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1944
Operation of the Glider Pick-Up by the C-47
Operation of the Glider Pick-Up by the C-471 1944 HD
This government documentary short film depicts and explains the processes for retrieving a glider in the field. In combat situations in World War II,...
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1945
Land and Live in the Desert
Land and Live in the Desert1 1945 HD
Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving...
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1945
Time to Kill
Time to Kill1 1945 HD
A group of sailors kid their shipmate Frank about his constant reading, when they would all rather play cards. But each of them has a dream for the...
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1945
Wings for This Man
Wings for This Man1 1945 HD
A tribute to the pioneering achievements of the Negro combat pilots trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
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1944
Position Firing
Position Firing1 1944 HD
Hapless B-17 waist gunner "Trigger Joe" learns how to adjust his aim, to take into account the relative motion of his aircraft, his bullets, and the...
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1944
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Resisting Enemy Interrogation6.20 1944 HD
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
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1945
P-47 Combat Operations
P-47 Combat Operations1 1945 HD
This documentary short film depicts the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane in combat operations in various locales around the world during the Second...
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1943
Learn and Live
Learn and Live1 1943 HD
Joe Instructor, an Army Air Forces flight instructor, visits Pilot Heaven and has a discussion with Saint Peter about the unacceptable number of...
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1944
Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane1 1944 HD
U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air Force colonel and major the new P-51B aircraft,...
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1944
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane1 1944 HD
Documentary feature film depicting the training of young Lieutenant Jim Anthony as a pilot of the B-26 Marauder bomber. Dick, the captain charged...
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1943
Three Cadets
Three Cadets1 1943 HD
The story of Three Cadets and sexually transmitted diseases.
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1943
Eyes Aloft
Eyes Aloft1 1943 HD
In this documentary short film, a woman volunteer for the civilian aviation observer corps in World War II explains how the U.S. military depends on...
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1944
Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure
Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure1 1944 HD
This U.S. Army Air Forces documentary short film depicts training methods and instructions for pilots of the C-47 Skytrain troop carrier aircraft....
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1944
B-29 Flight Engineer
B-29 Flight Engineer1 1944 HD
This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a flight engineer on the B-29 bomber. Lieutenant...
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1943
Cadet Classification
Cadet Classification1 1943 HD
Documentary on picking the right Cadet.
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1943
Wings Up
Wings Up5.20 1943 HD
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.
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1944
Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts
Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts1 1944 HD
An ace fighter pilot captain expects to get leave, but instead is ordered to Washington, where a colonel explains that mounting casualties among...
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1945
A-26 Flying Tips
A-26 Flying Tips1 1945 HD
This United States Army Air Forces short documentary depicts various pieces of official advice for pilots of the A-26 fighter bomber aircraft....
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1943
Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation
Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation3.00 1943 HD
When naval Lieutenant Phil Bowen encounters his friend, Air Forces Captain Grover, he inquires as to what Grover's aerial reconnaissance team is...