AIR POWER (26 films)

Duration: 27 min

Year Published: 1957

Creator: CBS-TV

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Titles are: 1. DAY NORTH AMERICA IS ATTACKED. Depiction of what actually would occur at Continental Air Defense Command Headquarters and other vital installations in North American defense perimeter on the fateful day of a nuclear attack. LC card Fi A 59-39. 2. EARLY DAYS. A humorous backward glance at aviation's horse-and-buggy period and serious evaluation of the emergence of the airplane as a military weapon during World War I. LC card Fi A 59-41. 3. PEARL HARBOR. Official films of the Japanese Navy, captured after World War II, present details of the attack on the American naval bastion at Pearl Harbor. LC card Fi A 59-46. 4. BATTLE OF BRITAIN. The defense of the British Isles by RAF fighter pilots in 1941, featuring portions of recorded speeches by Sir Winston Churchill. LC card Fi A 59-35. 5. COUNTERBLAST. The RAF Bomber Command's devastating attack on the port city of Hamburg, breeding ground for Nazi submarines. 6. THE 1930'S. Covers the major struggles of the 1930's and includes glimpses of many of the leading figures of that period. LC card Fi A 59-45. 7. SCHWEINFURT. The massive air raid staged by American B-17 bombers against the German ball bearing industry that ended in one of the greatest defeats the United States Air Force suffered over Germany during World War II. 8. CONQUEST OF THE AIR. Describes the advent of the American P-51 fighter plane as a successful long-range escort for United States Air Force bombers over Germany in 1944 focusing on a series of air battles which broke the back of the Luftwaffe. 9. JAPANESE PERIMETER. The decisive battle at Midway in the Pacific, where American air and naval units turned the tide of the Japanese offensive into a conclusive and far-reaching defeat. LC card Fi A 59-65. 10. INTERDICTION AND BLOCKADE. How the American high command, faced with the knowledge that there could never be a decisive land battle in the South Pacific, used air and sea power to destroy the Japanese war machine by denying the enemy the vital lines of supply and communication. LC card Fi A 59-64. 11. ADVANCE THE BOMBER LINE. How American forces took the key islands in the Pacific culminating in the big battle of Saipan so that B-29 Superfort bombers could have a base from which to mount aerial attacks on the Japanese mainland. LC card Fi A 59-34. 12. WINNING OF FRANCE. An account of Allied air-ground operations against the German 7th Army after the Normandy invasion. Shows how the Allies preceded the breakthrough with the most massive use of heavy bombers as tactical weapons in World War II. LC card Fi A 59-54. 13. SUPERFORT. The costly invasion of Iwo Jima by the United States Marines and the advent of the B-29 strategic bomber as a decisive weapon in the war in the Pacific. 14. VICTORY IN EUROPE. Covers the military situation as of December 1944, when the Allied armies had drawn up to the German border, and describes the maneuvers and battles that crushed the Nazi empire. LC card Fi A 59-53. 15. KAMIKAZE. Captured Japanese film tells the story of the intensively trained kamikaze pilots-suicide squadrons whose mission was to crash head-on into American aircraft or dive into American Navy ships during the invasion of Okinawa. LC card Fi A 59-66. 16. DEFEAT OF JAPAN. The United States Air Force's preparation for the mission which ended in the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, and the ultimate surrender ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. LC card Fi A 59-40. 17. COLD DECADE—AIRLIFT. The Berlin airlift in 1948-1949 shows a new use for Allied airpower and an unexpected use of military planes. 18. COLD DECADE—TO THE YALU. The Soviet-supported invasion of South Korea in 1950 and the political overtones of the East-West cold war, is also the story of the first American jet fighter, the Lockheed F-80 "Shooting Star". 19. COLD DECADE—KOREAN. The Chinese Communist entrance into the Korean War, the first battle of American F-86 Sabrejet fighters and Soviet-built MIG 15's, and the ultimate stalemate between the ground armies leading to the politically-charged armistice talk. LC card Fi A 59-37. 20. NEW DOCTRINE. Reports the atom-hydrogen bomb era, the development of the ultimate weapon by the United States and Russia, and their continuing search for the intercontinental ballistic missile. LC card Fi A 59-44. 21. LUFTWAFFE. The rise of the Nazi air force, mostly from captured German films, reveals how it was secretly created prior to 1939 and the part it played in the Spanish Civil War and in the beginnings of World War II. LC card Fi A 59-43. 22. FOOLS, DAREDEVILS AND GENIUSES. A look at the 20's when the views of men like Charles Lindbergh and General Billy Mitchell on the future of aviation contrasted sharply with the more popular idea that air power could not be considered seriously. 23. TARGET: PLOESTI. The United States Air Force's surprise low-level bombing attack on the single richest target in Europe—the Rumanian oil refineries at Ploesti. 24. STRANGLE. The battle that freed Italy in World War II, the impasse at the Abbey of Monte Cassino and how it was solved by a new use of air power. LC card Fi A 59-50. 25. PACIFIC PATTERN. How American carrier-based air power supported the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands and how it was used to neutralize the island of Truk—making further American invasions easier. 26. STARFIGHTER. Shows, at the Lockheed plant in Burbank and at Edwards Air Force Base, California, the testing and acceptance by the United States Air Force of the supersonic jet fighter Lockheed F-104. LC card Fi A 59-49

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Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)