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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220348-05
Color: Black and White and Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s,1980s
Country: USA
Location: March AFB, California
TC Begins: 12:21:13
TC Ends: 12:28:36
Duration: 00:07:23
B-17 at March AFB Museum Air Force Now Retrospective on the B-17 Superfortress & its veteran pilots Titles 12:22:00 WWII archive images: Machine-gunner, pilot opening hatch, in cockpit. B-17 in flight. Presenter out of plane hatch. Silhouette effect B-17 prepared at sunset. Veterans sound bytes. WWII archive images pilots climb into Flying Fortress. 12:23:59 WWII archive: Good CUs propellers. Row of B-17s & takeoff, in flight & formation. Flak. Inside plane, firing machine-gun. Planes hit. Bombardier aims w/ bomb sight. Bombs dropped; explosions. 12:26:10 Veterans re what it was like in B-17. Landing strip & belly landing. Ambulance. Wounded surviving pilots taken out of plane after ill-fated Oct 1943 “Bloody Hundred” mission to Germany. 12:26:58 Survivor veteran interviewed. 12:27:18 WWII Colour archive putting out fire & taking out charred bodies. Group photograph pilots. Colour WWII archive CUs pilots smiling to camera, 2 men at cafeteria counter joke (brief), watch planes on airfield. Presenter re being proud of your uniform. MUSIC MUST BE CLEARED IF USED.