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Motion Picture MP92-1

The Air Force Story, Chapter IV: Between Two Wars, 1930-1935

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
525 feet
Running Time
14 minutes 24 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
United States Air Force
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

The film examines the development of U.S. air power during the period 1930 to 1935.

Date(s)
1953

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
     
1:00   Dedication of Randolph Air Force Base (1930).
1:39   Benjamin Floy, Chief of Air Corps, describing Randolph as being the “greatest concentration of Army Air Corps.”
2:13   In San Antonio, the 3rd Attack Group destroys old planes as a mock battle for practice: General Hoyt Vandenberg mentioned.
2:43   President Herbert Hoover (early 1930’s) and James Foshea honors Eddie Rickenbacker.
3:02   Orville Wright accepting honor from Dwight F. Davis at the dedication of man’s first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
3:51   Japanese military machine prepares for war; aggression with Manchuria (fall 1931); beginning of world conflict.
4:19   Agents of the Indian Bureau request emergency supplies for the Navaho tribes in Arizona (winter 1932); Air Corp deliver 15 tons of supplies in “mercy bundles” dropped from the air.
5:54   Adolph Hitler at Nuremberg addressing Germans as the Nazi army comes to power.
6:53   James A. Farley signs the Army Air Corps to deliver U.S. mail after canceling contracts with expensive commercial lines.
8:04   Aircraft design inventions of materials and planes; B-26 and B-29 Bomber.
9:03   Martin’s early version of the B-10.
9:33   Long range flight test from Washington D.C. to Fairbanks, Alaska by Lt. Col. Hap Arnold, Maj. Hugh Mills, and Ralph Royce proved an attack the Arctic was possible (1934).
10:31   Cold weather tests also proved the same region could receive aid by air.
11:11   U.S. Military Academy at West Point begins aviation indoctrination at Mitchell Field in New York: under air training officer Maj. Omar N. Bradley and Lt. Col. Walter H. Frank, future colonels begin their training: Richard Carmichael, Clinton Crew, Gordon Austin, and Benjamin Davis and others (1936).