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WWII - 1944, England: 9th WRS / 9th Weather Squadron, P-51s. 13Aug44

Reel Number: 250093-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944,1945

Country: England,United Kingdom,USA

Location:

TC Begins: 16:16:15

TC Ends: 16:26:24

Duration: 00:10:09

WWII - 1944, England: 9th WRS / 9th Weather Squadron, P-51s. 13Aug44 Art titles. 16:16:29 CU airfield weather vane; CU machine w/ dials. USAAF airman throws switch, reading dials, writes on log report; goes to men working at desk in front of maps; airman in flight gear gets report. 16:17:23 MCU Message coming thru on the telex machine, torn off & read; taken to bulletin board. 16:17:47 Airman looking at machine printing out on graph, records. Men looking at maps. 16:18:05 Ext building w/ weather balloons, airman enters & fills, leaves carrying & to top of control tower, w/ another airman releases & tracks w/ scope. 16:19:32 Pilots in mess hall playing cards, smoking; get up & leaving for briefing. 16:20:15 CU sign: Weather Squadron Operations. Enter room & pilots being briefed in front of wall maps, course shown. Weather patterns shown. 16:21:17 Pilots to table & spread out flight maps & mark routes. Leave. 16:22:14 Pilots to jeep & driven to P-51 fighter planes w/ mascot dog. CU waving from plane & taxiing, tail number 36374. Two take off alongside. 16:23:52 Wind instruments on control tower, tilt down to radioman & assistant w/ binoculars. 16:24:36 MS airman setting up radio antenna on field truck; CU at controls. Inside trailer unit, putting on headphones & sending Morse code from control caravan. CU of hand sending. 16:25:40 Aerial of two P-51s. CU pilot thru plexiglass (staged). Shots of flak around plane. CU taking notes on pad on leg & hand on stick. WW2; Fighter Aircraft; Army Air Force; 1944; 1945; Third USAAF; 3rd USAAF;

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