From First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces Studios


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    Reconnaissance Pilot

    Reconnaissance Pilot

    1 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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    Operation of the Glider Pick-Up by the C-47

    Operation of the Glider Pick-Up by the C-47

    1 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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    Land and Live in the Desert

    Land and Live in the Desert

    1 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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    Time to Kill

    Time to Kill

    1 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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    Wings for This Man

    Wings for This Man

    1 1945 HD

    A tribute to the pioneering achievements of the Negro combat pilots trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

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    Position Firing

    Position Firing

    1 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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    Resisting Enemy Interrogation

    Resisting Enemy Interrogation

    6.20 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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    P-47 Combat Operations

    P-47 Combat Operations

    1 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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    Learn and Live

    Learn and Live

    1 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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    Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane

    Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane

    1 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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    How to Fly the B-26 Airplane

    How to Fly the B-26 Airplane

    1 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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    Three Cadets

    Three Cadets

    1 1943 HD

    The story of Three Cadets and sexually transmitted diseases.

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    Eyes Aloft

    Eyes Aloft

    1 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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    Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure

    Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure

    1 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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    B-29 Flight Engineer

    B-29 Flight Engineer

    1 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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    Cadet Classification

    Cadet Classification

    1 1943 HD

    Documentary on picking the right Cadet.

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    Wings Up

    Wings Up

    5.20 1943 HD

    Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.

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    Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts

    Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts

    1 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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    A-26 Flying Tips

    A-26 Flying Tips

    1 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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    Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation

    Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation

    3.00 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...

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