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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221131-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945
Country: England,Germany,Germany UNITED KINGDOM,United Kingdom
Location: dresden,High Wycombe,London,Molesworth
TC Begins: 09:11:00
TC Ends: 09:25:23
Duration: 00:14:23
Dresden - Bombing of Dresden Part 2 of 2 London. Eros statue in Piccadilly Circus, fog & street scenes w/ traffic. London routemaster double-decker buses & taxis. 09:11:31 Dance, RAF & troops dancing in uniform, some Canadian w/ Christmas decorations behind. Men drink beer around fireplace in pub? 09:12:07 Map with Dresden picked out, RAF briefing. Pilots & crew prepare. Airfield with many Avro Lancaster bomber planes. GOOD shots as crews prepare, taxi & take off. Air to Air, moonlight behind clouds. Ints cockpit. Night bombing of Dresden, OPX film firebombing. GOOD. 09:19:19 Dawn shots aircraft return to base. American 8th AF Molesworth? CUs props turning. Nose art Hells Angels. Various shots aircraft taking off & en route for daylight raid. Contrails. Bombs drop. Good daylight bombing of Germany w/ smoking buildings, more bombs dropped. Burning buildings. Incendiary carpet bombing. A-A bombing. 09:23:05 Wrecked buildings, civilians standing round huge crater over subway. Many shots bomb damage. Burned out bus. Rostrum stills devastation. Pile of bodies. 09:24:11 Cart piled up with coffins. Horrific shots bodies laid out in arena acting as mortuary. Dead baby. (This footage seen before as aftermath of Berlin bombing 220875) Bodies in the streets. CU stone carvings, architecture, statue Martin Luther standing amidst ruins. WWII; Horrors of War; WW2;