Records of the Army Air Forces. 1902 - 1964. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1941 - 1946. ARMY AIR FORCES--PACIFIC

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Records of the Army Air Forces. 1902 - 1964. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1941 - 1946. ARMY AIR FORCES--PACIFIC

1941-1946

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Uses Air Force Combat Film Digest pictures to show the strategy for aerial assault against Japan. British infantry advances in Burma with the help of U.S. fighter strafings. Oil fields and industry in Borneo are bombed. Gen. McArthur inspects damage caused by U.S. bombings of the Philippines. Gens. Doolittle, Arnold, and Whitehead confer on Okinawa. Saipan is invaded and its airstrip is repaired and used by B-29's. Shows the attack on Iwo Jima and resultant destruction. B-29's bomb Japan. Shows the Los Alamos, New Mexico, atom bomb explosion.

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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...

Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950

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Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938–1941), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the only U.S. Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only officer to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services. Arnold was also the founder of Project RAND, which evolved into one of the wo...

Whitehead, Ennis Clement, 1895-1964

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Ennis Clement Whitehead (b. Sept. 3, 1895, Westphalia, Kan.-d. Oct. 12, 1964) received his commission in the aviation section of the Signal Corps in 1917. He reached the rank of brigadier general in June 1942, then major general in March 1943, then lieutenant general in June 1945. He was commanding general of the Continental Air Command, then Air Defense Command from 1949 to 1951. He retired as a lieutenant general in July 1951. From the description of Whitehead, Ennis Clement, 1895-...

Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993

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James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his daring raids on Japan during World War II. He also made early coast-to-coast flights, won many flying races, and helped develop instrument flying. Born in Alameda, California, Doolittle studied as an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1922. He also earned a doctorate in aero...