WWII - 1945, Government Documentary: Target Tokyo R2 of 2

Re: first B-29 superfortress mission on Tokyo. R2 of 2 Montage: Crew taking shower, barber & cutting hair, 78rpm record album, swimming & sunbathing during rest & play. 13:14:26 Pan of tents & camp, Japanese planes attack, damaging planes & buildings; planes are downed burning. Night & planes hit in air, & burning B-29 on ground. Pan w/ clouds of smoke rising. Destroyed B-29 on airstrip. 13:15:15 Train of bombs on cart pulled, loaded. Crews briefed & men listening. CU map showing route to Japan; men listening, look at map. Mechanics working on planes, fuzing bombs, dawn activity, crew to planes in jeeps & trucks . Crew around planes w/ nose art: American Maid, Waddy’s Wagon, Dauntless Dotty (lead ship w/ pilot Robert Morgan & bombardier Vince Evans, MCU) who had flown in Memphis Belle. 13:17:19 Crew into plane, closing door, waving from cockpit, engines turning, nose art for Jumbo & Thumper, planes taxiing, turning & in line for take-off, Chaplain blesses, rolling & taking off. Cockpit shots. 13:20:14 Sunrise from above clouds; animated route over globe from USA to Japan. 13:20:30 MCU in plane of crew; air to air of planes, contrails. 13:22:17 Mt. Fujiyama. Flak. Fighters attacking. Gunners in B-29. 13:23:00 View of Tokyo thru light clouds. View thru cross-hairs, bomb Nakajima Aircraft Company’s Musashi engine plant / factory (Nov. 24, 1944), bombs dropping from plane & of other planes; explosions on ground. Bomb bay doors close. 13:24:14 Planes landing on Saipan in dark. (end of NTSC reference cassette). General Arnold promises more attacks. WW2 USAAF; Pacific; Bombing Mission Preparations; 1945 Government Documentary; 24Nov44; 1944;