Movies: First Motion Picture Unit United States Army Air Forces

  • 1944
    How to Fly the B-26 Airplane

    How to Fly the B-26 Airplane (1944)

    How to Fly the B-26 Airplane

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    Documentary feature film depicting the training of young Lieutenant Jim Anthony as a pilot of the B-26 Marauder bomber. Dick, the captain charged with pilot instruction, leads Jim through every aspect of preparation to fly the bomber, going through a...

    How to Fly the B-26 Airplane
  • 1943
    Three Cadets

    Three Cadets (1943)

    Three Cadets

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    The story of Three Cadets and sexually transmitted diseases....

    Three Cadets
  • 1944
    Resisting Enemy Interrogation

    Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)

    Resisting Enemy Interrogation

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    A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic WW2 training film....

    Resisting Enemy Interrogation
  • 1945
    Time to Kill

    Time to Kill (1945)

    Time to Kill

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    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 wa...

    Time to Kill
  • 1944
    Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane

    Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane (1944)

    Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane

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    U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air Force colonel and major the new P-51B aircraft, explaining the changes in this new model and taking the plane through its paces with full description ...

    Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
  • 1943
    Learn and Live

    Learn and Live (1943)

    Learn and Live

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    Joe Instructor, an Army Air Forces flight instructor, visits Pilot Heaven and has a discussion with Saint Peter about the unacceptable number of pilots who have died and gone to heaven without ever getting into combat, all as a result of haphazard or...

    Learn and Live
  • 1944
    Operation of the Glider Pick-Up by the C-47

    Operation of the Glider Pick-Up by the C-47 (1944)

    Operation of the Glider Pick-Up by the C-47

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    This government documentary short film depicts and explains the processes for retrieving a glider in the field. In combat situations in World War II, gliders were used to transport men and materiel to sites not suitable for landing powered aircraft, ...

    Operation of the Glider Pick-Up by the C-47
  • 1944
    Position Firing

    Position Firing (1944)

    Position Firing

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    Hapless B-17 waist gunner "Trigger Joe" learns how to adjust his aim, to take into account the relative motion of his aircraft, his bullets, and the attacking enemy fighter....

    Position Firing
  • 1944
    B-29 Flight Engineer

    B-29 Flight Engineer (1944)

    B-29 Flight Engineer

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    This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a flight engineer on the B-29 bomber. Lieutenant Anderson is normally the co-pilot of this B-29, but as part of the readiness regimen for aircraft crews,...

    B-29 Flight Engineer
  • 1943
    The First Motion Picture Unit

    The First Motion Picture Unit (1943)

    The First Motion Picture Unit

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    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....

    The First Motion Picture Unit
  • 1943
    Flight Characteristics of the A-20

    Flight Characteristics of the A-20 (1943)

    Flight Characteristics of the A-20

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    Tom, a young Army Air Forces pilot, begins instruction with his captain on flying the A-20 attack aircraft. The captain demonstrates to Tom the pre-flight routine and checklists, then pilots the plane with Tom as his passenger. The captain demonstrat...

    Flight Characteristics of the A-20
  • 1945
    Land and Live in the Desert

    Land and Live in the Desert (1945)

    Land and Live in the Desert

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    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....

    Land and Live in the Desert
  • 1944
    Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts

    Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts (1944)

    Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts

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    An ace fighter pilot captain expects to get leave, but instead is ordered to Washington, where a colonel explains that mounting casualties among fighter pilots require new, battle-tested tactics in combat. The captain sets out to train a group of you...

    Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts
  • 1944
    Recognition of the CG-4A Glider

    Recognition of the CG-4A Glider (1944)

    Recognition of the CG-4A Glider

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    This documentary short film was produced by the United States Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit as a training film for American pilots and other personnel during the Second World War. In it, the Air Corps' CG-4A glider is demonstrated in its...

    Recognition of the CG-4A Glider
  • 1943
    Reconnaissance Pilot

    Reconnaissance Pilot (1943)

    Reconnaissance Pilot

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    Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands....

    Reconnaissance Pilot
  • 1945
    Wings for This Man

    Wings for This Man (1945)

    Wings for This Man

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    A tribute to the pioneering achievements of the Negro combat pilots trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama....

    Wings for This Man
  • 1945
    Target Tokyo

    Target Tokyo (1945)

    Target Tokyo

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    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, t...

    Target Tokyo
  • 1943
    Eyes Aloft

    Eyes Aloft (1943)

    Eyes Aloft

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    In this documentary short film, a woman volunteer for the civilian aviation observer corps in World War II explains how the U.S. military depends on civilians watching the skies to warn of possible attacking or spying enemy aircraft. An army major ex...

    Eyes Aloft
  • 1944
    Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure

    Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure (1944)

    Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure

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    This U.S. Army Air Forces documentary short film depicts training methods and instructions for pilots of the C-47 Skytrain troop carrier aircraft. Lieutenant Warren is shown being put through his training paces by his instructor, Captain Mathews, who...

    Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure
  • 1943
    Wings Up

    Wings Up (1943)

    Wings Up

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    Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces....

    Wings Up