https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8adabb26-90f6-497f-88a7-81c656be37b2 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part of the Army/Navy Screen Magazine series, this film newsreel consists of several segments. The first, "They Fly the Aleutians" shows the activities of the air crews based in the Andreanofs Islands within striking range of Japanese held Kiska and Attu. B-24 Liberators and B-17 Flying Fortresses are shown being maintained and loaded for a bombing mission. At (:55) bomber crews prepare for the mission and take off towards Japanese positions. At (1:38) pea soup clouds greet the planes as they fly near Kiska. At (1:59) gunners strafe an enemy ship from high altitude. At (2:14) the bomb drop over Kiska. At (2:34) bombs drop in slow motion and smoke is visible as the planes head for home. At (3:40) the crews debrief back at the base. Next, a short and funny "Confidential Report to Adolph" (3:50) introduces a segment about Radioplane drones. The OQ-2 Radioplane shown was the first mass-produced UAV or drone in the United States. A follow-on version, the OQ-3, became the most widely used target aircraft in US service, with over 9,400 being built during World War II. The OQ-2 was originally a small radio controlled aircraft model designed by Walter Righter. The design, along with its engine design, was purchased by actor Reginald Denny, who had demonstrated another model to the US Army in 1940. Calling the new design the RP-2, he demonstrated several updated versions to the Army as the RP-2, RP-3 and RP-4 in 1939. In 1940, the Army placed an order for 53 RP-4s, designating them the OQ-1, the OQ meaning a "subscale target". This small order led to a much bigger 1941 order for the similar RP-5, which became the US Army OQ-2. The US Navy also bought the drone, designating it TDD-1, for Target Drone, Denny, 1. Thousands were built, manufactured in a plant at the Van Nuys Airport in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It was at this factory on June 26, 1945 that Army photographer David Conover saw a young woman assembler named Norma Jeane Dougherty, whom he thought had potential as a model. She was photographed in the plant, which led to a screen test for Norma Jeane, who soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe. During WWII, Radioplane conducted field tests at the Muroc Dry Lake from a private airport owned by famed aviatrix Florence "Pancho" Barnes. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN0PSvQMPkE Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:28:23 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8adabb26-90f6-497f-88a7-81c656be37b2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.