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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221264-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s
Country: USA
Location: Midway,Pacific
TC Begins: 13:07:21
TC Ends: 13:15:08
Duration: 00:07:47
Bombing Japan, Day & Night; B-29, Nagasaki atomic bomb; Kamikaze Attack; Pacific Island Battle Views from bomb bay doors w/ bombs dropping; aerial of plane dropping bombs & ground seen below the bombs dropping; night fire raids w/ massive explosions & fires on ground. 13:08:42 Clouds of smoke in daytime w/ fires burning beneath. Oil storage tanks burning. 13:09:06 B-29 w/ bomb-bay doors open in flight seen from slightly below & to side; zoom or move in close. Int. of B29 w/ gunner in nose sighting down. Hiroshima “button” explosions; thin cloud of Nagasaki (?) rising. Plane flying off. Nagasaki cloud rising. 13:10:12 Japanese kamikaze attack on carrier; machine gunner shooting. US planes leaving carrier. Plane hitting water alongside carrier. Ack-ack / flak clouds. Twin engine plane seen smoking as chased by plane. Japanese planes being hit, diving & plowing into ocean. CU of gun barrels firing, shipboard. Crew on carrier ducking as plane hits close by. Much action. 13:13:30 Night battle w/ tracers up from ships, hitting planes, crashing nearby. 13:14:00 Day fighting continues. Gun camera of exploding planes in front. 13:14:33 Line of battleships; firing. Ernie Pyle in MCU (brief). 13:14:55 Pacific island fighting, troop move, in trucks off ship. WWII Pacific Battles; Aerial Fighting; Horrors of War; Journalist; Correspondent; WW2;