This black and white documentary film, Air Force Story Chapter 2, After the War, 1918-1923, was produced around 1953 by the Department of the Air Force. The Department of the Air Force was formed September 18, 1947, within the Department of Defense. Musical score is by The U.S. Air Force Band under the direction of Lt. Col. George S. Howard, commander and conductor of the band from 1944-1963. The film features a drastic cut in the American Army Air Service after WWI, while maintaining an interest in Mitchell’s argument for air power. The film also documents the study of aerial photography.
The Air Force Story (0:27-0:31). Message to the American People (0:32-1:09). Celebrating Armistice, November 11, 1918, the end of WWI fighting, and because of it, America cut the Armed Service by 95% (1:14-1:33). Edward (Eddie) Vernon Rickenbacker, an American fighter ace in WWI (1:48-1:57). Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945 (2:00-2:03). Inauguration of the Air Mail Service, May 15, 1918 (2:07-2:48). President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, President from 1913-1921, and his wife Edith Bolling Wilson (2:21-2:24). Postmaster, Merrit O. Chance, posting a letter (2:25-2:31). President Wilson and his wife greeting a pilot and discussing air flight (2:34-2:48). Curtiss JN-4H Jenny airplane (3:01-3:07). Barnstorming on wings of airplanes (3:20-3:45). A pusher aircraft is one mounted behind the engine (3:46-3:57). Barnstormer (4:02-4:33). Congress set up the air service as a permanent combat element (5:00-5:09). Study of Photography with high-speed aerial cameras (5:10-5:18). Strafing maneuvers (5:39-6:22). Army’s balloon flight with observation balloons and blimps (6:25-6:43). General Alfred Thayer Mahan (6:44-6:53). Major Carl Spaatz signals pursuit crews to prepare for graduation reviews (6:54-7:12). Development of the parachute (7:27-7:58). Orville Wright congratulates Airmen Oakley G. Kelly and John A. Macready (8:13-8:18). Fokker T-2 aircraft (8:19-8:38). John Macready and Oakley Kelly (8:55-8:57). Fokker T-2 airplane taking off (9:06-9:24). Fokker T-2 in flight and landing (9:31-9:56). Brigadier General William (Billy) Mitchell (10:21-10:23). Ships at sea (10:24-10:35). Curtiss P-1 Hawk (10:13-10:20) & (10:48-10:57). Planes headed to bomb battle ships (11:06-11:09). Obsolete Alabama (11:10-11:11). Using Phosphorus bombs to destroy the ship (11:12-11:34). Aerial Bomb (11:35-11:39). Curtiss P-1 Hawk (11:41-11:43). The Hawk bombing the Alabama (11:51-12:02). Brigadier General William (Billy) Mitchell with the Aerial bomb (12:03-12:08). General John J. Pershing, Admiral Harry E. Shoemaker, Asst. Sec. of War Dwight F. Davis and General Mason Mathews Patrick (12:20-12:29). The bombing and sinking of an obsolete target ship, Virginia (12:47-14:01). American Air Forces (14:02-14:31).
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