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Major "Chick" Davis is convinced that high-level bombing will win the next war. He convinces the powers-that-be to set up a bombardier school. He efficiently sets about training the USAAF's first generation of high-level bombardiers.

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 future that they consider impossible. Harry wants a better world for his two kids, Shorty and Eddie want to start a trucking company, Joe wants to learn about engines, and another of the gang just wants to know how to write well. When Frank reveals that he's been studying to get his high school diploma and to have a career in the Navy, the others realize that the educational benefits offered by the Armed Forces Institute can help them achieve their dreams.

Inspirational short film designed to encourage recruits for the American Army Air Forces.

The story of the 13th Army Air Force on Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Munda in the Solomon Islands. Conceived, developed and mostly filmed by Lt. Edwin Parkhill. Narrated by: Spencer Tracy; and Ronald Reagan; Score: David Rose.

A young rural enlistee is initially disappointed with his job as an air mechanic, but his great marksmanship skills make him a tail gunner in a bomber.

Training film for pilots of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning pursuit aircraft, focusing particularly on flight characteristics during operation on only one engine.

The story of the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Crews are followed from their training staging at Grand Island, Nebraska to their bombing embarkation point on the island of Saipan. From there, the B-29 attack on the Nakajima aircraft plant outside Tokyo is depicted.

Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving water, providing shelter, and signaling for help are depicted.

This short film in support of the war effort dramatizes the training and missions of Army Air Forces Captain Hewett T. Wheless, a former Texas ranch hand who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in the early days of WWII.

A documentary recounting the experiences of the 351st Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, based in England during the Second World War . The group's air and ground crews are followed through a number of bombing missions over Hitler's Germany.

Military training film in which an instructor takes a new B-17 bomber pilot through preflight inspections of the aircraft and preparation for departure.

This animated military documentary short film instructs pilots how to do the flying maneuver known as a "lazy eight," in which the airplane flies in alternating loops. As attempting this maneuver at too high an airspeed can result in the aircraft stalling, special care must be exercised in making the turns, and to help pilots better understand the technique, an animated Mae West is happy to demonstrate the movements.

Documentary detailing the activities of American fighter escort pilots during bombing raids over Germany.

This Oscar-nominated USAF film covers the Berlin Airlift from the initial closure of the city in 1948 through 1949. It explains how, what and why that supported the city.

A documentary showing the functions of the Army Air Corps' First Motion Picture Unit, which made training and inspirational films for the Army Air Force during the Second World War.

Animated training film demonstrating the process by which an autopilot uses gyroscopic controls to maintain an airplane in level flight.

Wartime US Army Air Forces training film about he dangers of venereal disease The Three Cadets are AAF pilot trainees who represent the cross section of AAF aviation cadets at the time. This film covers the precautions to prevent infection, and the dos and don'ts on what to do if one is unfortunate to be infected. Shown only to Army Air Forces during and possibly after WWII.

This documentary depicts the American effort to support the Chinese government before and during the Second World War, by means of transport flights of materiel from India to China, by the fierce defense of China skies by the pilots of the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers), and the subsequent absorption and augmentation of that unit by the U.S. Army Air Forces' Fourteenth Air Force. Also depicted are the millions of refugees fleeing the Japanese armies and the relocation of equipment, personnel, and (sometimes) civilians in advance of the invaders.

In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two groups of soldiers must survive until they can meet up and be rescued. The pilot does almost everything wrong, and the rest of his crew does almost everything right. We learn, by both bad and good example, how to survive in the jungle.

Military training film in which an instructor trains a new B-17 bomber pilot in proper procedure and technique while airborne.

A WWII orientation short about the rigorous selection process for bombardiers, navigators, and pilots.

Training film demonstrating safe and proper procedure for towing, mooring, and jacking the B-17 bomber.

Training film demonstrating the uses and capabilities of the helicopter, both in wartime and in projected use by the average family.

Training film depicting proper procedures and precautions for transporting, storing, and using aviation fuel in the field.

Training film demonstrating the correct procedure for uncrating and assembling the P-47 fighter aircraft under field conditions. A dismantled plane is uncrated, put together, inspected, and flown off on camera.