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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1296-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1943
Country: Japan,Solomon Islands,USA
Location: Guadalcanal,Pacific,SOLOMON ISLANDS
TC Begins: 11:29:54
TC Ends: 11:40:50
Duration: 00:10:56
WWII - 1943, Guadalcanal Activities Recovering US Aircraft ca Feb43 Men working on recovered fighter plane in standing water at edge of airstrip; drops wrench into water, MCU. 11:30:35 LS Men working on plane reflected in large puddle, lift propellor into place.. 11:31:01 Air crew arriving on jeep thru mud; airman into tent. 11:31:51 Truck w/ crane lowering 3-blade propellor. Planes sitting by airstrip; pieces laying around, men working on them. Crane lifting motor from plane. Hulks of heavily damaged planes. Soldier inspects heavily damaged tail. 11:33:29 Road grader & truck working on runway. Four-engine B-24 taxiing; C-47 taking off as men watch. 11:34:17 Slate: Camera Lt. Bergholz. 11:34:21 Men beside runway, four-engine planes taking off. Men working w/ shovels, trucks & roadgrader. Laying metal runway sections & clipping together w/ crow bars & hammers. 11:35:24 Injured pilot walked away after plane crash; GIs looking at upside down fighter plane. 11:35:45 Small motor boat on sand at edge of surf. Other wreckage. 11:36:12 MCU jeep stuck in mud. 11:36:16 Sunken freighter against shoreline w/ bow in air. 11:36:25 Slate: same. 11:36:27 Sunken freighter continued, various shots. 11:36:55 LS Anti-aircraft gun in brush, destroyed army truck. Pan over damaged palm trees. 11:37:23 Man handcranking long barreled anti-aircraft gun. 11:37:32 Slate: same. 11:37:34 Shoreline w/ rowboats, pan to sunken freighter. Tokyo on bow of rowboat. Other sunken ships. 11:38:16 Men riding in Japanese army truck w/ graffiti: Tojo’s Hearse; Rush to Bougainsville (sic). 11:38:38 Slate: same. 11:38:42 P-38 landing; men standing under wing in tropical downpour of rain. Standing water on airstrip. as planes land & taxii. 11:39:45 View across burned wreckage of fighter plane alongside airstrip. CU of motor, propellor, planes parked behind. USAAF men inspecting wreckage. Japanese planes? WW2 Battle of Guadalcanal; NOTE: Americans reclaiming equipment after retaking airfield.