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Motion Picture MP92-2

The Air Force Story, Chapter V: Air Power Advances, 1935-1937

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
513 feet
Running Time
14 minutes 19 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
United States Air Force
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

The film examines the development and construction of the B 17 long range heavy bomber and events in the Far East that eventually brought the United States to war with Japan.

Date(s)
1953

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
     
0:47   Army Air Field at Diamond Head, Hawaii.
1:27   Bombing volcano Montaloa by the Air Force to stop lava flow.
2:34   G.H.Q. Air Base established in Hawaii (March 1935).
3:31   General Andrews sets world records on a B12 speed test flight from Langley Field in Virginia to Stinnett Field in New York.
4:21   World’s largest helium balloon launched in coordination with National Geographic at Saddle Bowl, South Dakota under Dr. Lyman Bray, Gen. Oscar Westover, and Cpt. Albert Stevens for scientific research on weather and cosmic rays.
5:52   Flooding of eastern states necessitates emergency Air Corps relief flight of medical clothing and food in Pennsylvania under Maj. Robert Crownan (Spring 1936).
7:06   Japan – war against China.
7:23   Italy testing its Air Force under Mussolini.
7:45   Italy conducts bomb strikes on Ethiopia; Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, confronts the League of Nations (which is disbanded days later).
8:20   B-17 long range heavy bomber planning: design, contracting, construction and precision aviation testing of the "flying fortress."
11:30   Testing results in a crash at Dayton, Ohio but production results in over 12,000 B-17 bombers (October 30, 1935).