Account successfully created. Please check your inbox to verify your email id and login.
Sign in with
Sign in with GoogleAlready have an account?
Sign in
or create with
We are glad to have you onboard! But before we start we will need to make sure we’ve got the right email for you.
Go to HomepageReel Number: 250163-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1942,1943,1940s
Country: Algeria,Australia,USA
Location: Maison Blanche,North Africa
TC Begins: 14:44:14
TC Ends: 14:55:55
Duration: 00:11:41
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1942-43, USAAF: Doolittle Awarding Medals & Citations; WAACs to Africa; Elliott Roosevelt; B-17 Aircrew in Australia X33. James Doolittle on airfield pinning medal on taller officer drops it; others wearing medals at attention watching. Doolittle gives citation papers & exchanges salutes. Walking off; Doolittle posing w/ ?? CU of medal. 14:45:20 X34 16Mar43 French Air Force presents Lt. Co. Elliott Roosevelt w/ new training plane, Maison Blanche, Algeria airport. Military officials standing beside large twin-engine over wing monoplane w/ French & American flags painted on fuselage. Glass nose & view up to cockpit. MCU ?? & Roosevelt, pan to CU flags on fuselage, on to French military officers. Plane inside hanger. 14:46:24 X35 ca 28Dec42 LS USAAF officers standing in front of large 4-motor bomber on wet airstrip / tarmac besides damaged or under construction hanger. MS Lt. Col Elliott Roosevelt at attention, receives DFC from Jimmy Doolittle, handshake - Roosevelt looking uncomfortable. 14:47:28 X36 Slate: 24Dec42 First WAACs Arrive in North Africa, Algiers. US Army staff car pulls up & 4 women officers get out. MCUs. One talking to male driver. CUs. Soldier walks past & all salute. 14:48:32 X37 General James Doollittle in front of airmen posing; takes off coat alongside plane, puts on flying jacket & climbs into fighter aircraft cockpit & puts on flying helmet; plane taxiing on wet tarmac. 14:49:30 Airmen in front of tents under Eucalyptus trees, looking at announcement board. At counter briefed over maps CUs. Men from tents w/ briefcases & small canvas bags to truck & climb in back, leave. 14:50:28 Stockpile of large bombs; men moving them & carrying to car & loading. Open crate & remove fins o assemble, truck pulling cart to airstrip. Pull bombs beneath plane & winch into bomb rack; bomb bay doors closed. Truck w/ men to airstrip & men out & walk to B-17 airplane & board in side door. Engines started & taxiing to runway. Open control tower w/ windsock. Man w/ signal light. Take off. 14:54:19 runway from in plane; pilot & co-pilot at controls. Plane overhead from runway. CUs machine gunner; motor; radioman; machine gunner. Bombardier fitting headset. Landing on return & men out door of plane WW2; Military Aviation; Reconnaissance Unit; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk