https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/939dd64c-480e-4706-be0b-8310b4d40dc9 UJoin this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This mid-1940s film by the U.S. Army Air Forces, Special Film Project 187, is a report of the Army Air Forces to the US public documenting the impact the of the civilian war effort in building planes as well as the future of the Air Force. It is narrated by Ronald Reagan and features Hap Arnold. 00:45 Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold notes that this film shows the US public what they are doing with all the materials produced for the Army Air Forces. 01:28 US workers enter a factory producing steel, tires, ball bearings, air plane engines, planes. 01:52 B-17 bombers in flight. US Navy destroyer at sea. A 75 mm howitzer motor carriage M8 tank rolls through a European town. French citizens greet passing US troops. US officers greet British and Soviet officers. A US officer exchanges a friendly salute with an Asian child. 02:26 U.S. pilots and paratroopers on June 5, 1944 prepare for D-Day. C-47s fly in formation over the English Channel. Paratroopers jump. A Waco CG-4A glider makes a rough landing. Infantry scurry across open ground. 03:40 A combat airfield in January 1944. Grounded B-17s shrouded in fog. B-17 squadrons in flight. Bombs fall. 04:35 Army officers in a map room track troops and planes. 04:44 P-47 Thunderbolts fly in formation. Bombs fall from B-24s and B-17s. 05:11 Destroyed German factories. 05:21 P-38s roll for attack and attack German airfields. P-51s attack ground targets. An air tower disguised as a church, hangers disguised as homes. Destroyed Messerschmitt Bf109 and Henkel He112 bomber. P-38s shoot down German planes. 06:40 B-17s and B-24s in flight. An A-20 bomber lights up and careens out of control. German factories destroyed. 07:26 Various bombers start engines, crews prepare for take off. P-38s and B-17s take off and fly over factories, fields. 08:13 Landing craft release infantry onto beaches. Wounded aircrew are removed from planes. B-17 waist gunners fire at invaders. A-20 bombers fly in formation. Bombs destroy bridges and other ground targets. 09:45 Destroyed bridges over the Seine and Loire Rivers. P-47s fly over head. Gun camera footage of railroads, trucks, barges, and other ground targets destroyed. 10:55 US ground troops march through fields, construction crews work, soldiers search for mines, P-47s take off. P-51s fly in formation. 11:17 German soldiers fire anti aircraft artillery. 11:30 A P-51 drops a fire bomb. Surrendering German soldiers are placed into POW camps. 12:29 German anti-aircraft artillery fire. US troops dig in defensive positions. 12:51 US bombers bomb various ground targets. German trucks burn. German soldiers captured. German buildings are bombed out 13:33 Factory workers build airplanes. A C-47 flies through the air. Ground crew and mechanics work on aircraft. Air crews fire on various ground targets. 14:33 Japanese Zeroes on patrol. Phosphorus bombs explode in the air. B-24s bomb various jungle targets. Bombs are loaded onto planes and dropped onto targets in China and Japan, on ships in harbors, bridges, and oil tanks. 15:49 A-20 bombers fly over ships at sea. Bombs destroy jungles and runways. A US soldier destroys a building with a hand grenade. A US flag is lowered. 16:43 USS LCS(L)(3)-53 fires rockets. Engineers and construction crews land on shore and construct new bases. 17:15 B-29 bombers drop bombs on Tokyo. 18:08 Pilots and crew in an operations room listen to mission brief. Various personnel launch weather balloons, assemble airplane parts, show the victory mission markings on an aircraft, talk on radio, prepare a hospital bed, tend to wounded, clean a gun barrel. 18:51 General Arnold sums up the accomplishments of US efforts in Europe and Asia and notes how important it is to maintain the Army Air Force. 19:58 A B-26 takes off with jet assist. Aircraft of the future: Platt-Lepage XR-1, XP-55 Ascender, P-59B Airacomet jet, Republic-Ford JB-2 cruise missile, XP-67, and Northrop’s N-1M flying wing. END 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. 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