The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
The United States Air Force (USAF) story: Between the Wars, 1930-1935. The story of the u.s air force between world war I and world war II and the technological and general corpus evolution of the United States Air Force prior to World War Two
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
DO NOT USE Text, Credits, "The United States Air Force," "It is the job of all the people to know and understand what the airman had done and is doing today...for only with full public knowledge and understanding can we have the support we need to carry out our mission. It is a big mission and an important one. It involves the future well being of every American-the peace of the world. Sincerely, ...Chapter IV between the wars." Includes voiceover.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
LS Randolph air base. MS air force officers shaking hands, FRANK LAUM. MS air force, air corps, airmen walking base, learning in classes (with goggles & leather flight caps perched on heads).
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
TLS airplanes flying overhead, DH-4, early gliders, flying low in formation. MS Brig. General BENJAMIN FOULOIS, 1931. TLS aerial view of airplane on ground, Ohio corps base. LS airplanes taking off at the same time and in the air, Martin, Keystone model planes taxiing, in flight on practice tactical combat maneuvers.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
MS uniformed members of Third Attack Group headed by Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, posing for camera in San Antonio, 1931. TLS corpsmen in keystone planes dropping bombs on weary willies (old useless obsolete planes) parked on airfield. MS heavy bomb on undercarriage of plane. LS bombed area.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
MS U.S. President HERBERT HOOVER, wife & entourage walking along Boeing Field. MS Air Corps Chief General JAMES FECHET reading citation honoring EDDIE RICKENBACKER; MS President Hoover & Mr. Rickenbacker.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
LS zeppelin, u.s. army semi-rigid dirigible dropping wreath at kitty hawk to honor Wright brothers sails over Wright brothers national Memorial near Kitty Hawk & Kill Devil Hills, NC, drops an honorary wreath. TLS monument from air. TLS monument from ground as wreath falls. MCU ORVILLE WRIGHT being awarded the Flying Cross citation from Asst. Sec. Truby Davisson (sp) and Secretary of War DWIGHT F. DAVIS
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
CU map of Manchuria (superimposed over Japanese military aggression scenes).
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
MS 11th Bomb Squad airmen looking at map. CU food strapped to bomb straps and loaded into airplane (fantastic newsreel of a joint Bureau of Indian Affairs & War Department effort to distribute food to snowbound members of the Navajo nation in Arizona). LS/aerials Navajo Mountains. LS B-2 plane in flight, dropping mercy bombs. MSs Navajos distributing food, kneeling to eat.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
MS ADOLF HITLER speaking at 1933 rally in Nuremberg (outdoor stadium), leaves podium, joins the likes of RUDOLPH HESS. MSs cheering crowd, young children, saluting. MSs uniformed crowd of mostly male youth saluting. MSs Nazi youth saluting, playing instruments. MS Hitler in convertible driving through stadium.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
MS uniformed mail carrier walking, smiling at cam. TLS airmail plane taxiing. MS mailbags being unloaded form plane. MCU Postmaster General JAMES A. FARLEY sitting at desk, signing memo. TLS/MSs old open-seat fighters & trainers converted into Air Mail carriers; pilots don gear, board planes, take off at night. MS searchlight on ground, combing skies. TLSs planes flying at night.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
TLSs Boeing B-9 bomber (monoplane) in flight and landing. MSs Boeing P-26 fighter, propeller being started; taxi, take-off and in air. LSs B-9 & P-26 in flight, landing. TLS Martin B-10 bomber monoplane. MSs gunners manning waist and nose ports. MS bomb bay closing. TLS B-10 bomber taking off (1934 newsreel of long range test flight, Washington, DC to Alaska and back). LS Alaska & DC. LS Capitol Building, fountain in FG. MS arctic environment airmen load, arm, start, crank B-10 in snowy subzero environment.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
MS West Point cadets in uniform, marching. MSs cadets on horses, jumping fence during cavalry exercises. MS sign for Mitchell Field, TLSs cadets arriving at base in 1936 for aero training. MS troops arriving for training. MS cadets moving equipment. MS sign, "West point cadet detachment." MS Lt. Col. WALTER H. FRANK. MSs cadets & instructor studying planes on airfield. MSs cadets in flight suits, marching to and boarding Keystone bomber biplanes. TLSs trainer planes taking off and in flight. LS airplanes flying in formation overhead and in the air. MSs pilots looking over map. TLSs bombers & fighters like the B-8 in flight during training mission.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
MS airplane in flight. MS airplanes in the air from other airplane. LS airplane flying above.
The USAF Story: Between Two Wars, 1930-35
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