EXPANSION TO AIR POWER
1944 · National Archives and Records Administration (via FedFlix)
Finding US Government work
The record names a federal body as the creating agency: War Department. Army Air Forces. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act).
The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate.
- Creating body, as recorded
- War Department. Army Air Forces
- National Archives Identifier
- 2871 (local identifier 18-C-407)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.2871 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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National Archives and Records Administration EXPANSION TO AIR POWER War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947) ARC Identifier 2871 / Local Identifier 18-C-407. On the growth of the AAF, June 1939-Dec. 1943. Animated diagrams trace increases in personnel, planes, appropriations, missions, etc. between flashes of world situations affecting these increases. Enumerates planning problems caused by rapid growth. Includes brief sequences of significant events, 1939-1943: the Russian-German Pact is signed; Germany invades Poland, France, Russia, and other countries; Pearl Harbor is attacked; Pres. Roosevelt delivers the war message to Congress; U.S. planes fight in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific; a Japanese convoy is bombed and strafed; Pantelleria is bombed; Germany is bombed night and day by U.S. and British planes. Estimates extent of AAF activities in 1944. DVD copied by Liz Pruszko.