Air Force Now - Curtis LeMay
CU writing w/ ballpoint. 1929 biplanes in flight. LeMay talking in interview. Tells of assignment to bombers. Twin engine plane taking off past hanger w/ Langley Field on roof seen from above.
06:34:01 1938 Six B-17s fly to Argentina & back. Various shots of planes in flight. Montage of Hitler, Roosevelt, industries. Pearl Harbor bombing.
06:34:46 Color of damaged B-17s flying from England to bomb Germany. Taxiing, shot of man out of plane & kissing ground. Col. LeMay in charge of 8th AAF. Wheels down, landing. Good shot of shadow of plane landing.
06:35:26 LeMay at desk, planes in air, talking w/ pilots. Color planes starting & taking off past & over camera (GOOD). View out of bubble at other planes, bombs dropping from plane & exploding on ground. POV from behind pilot of B-29 plane landing. Various interior shots from B-29s & crash landings on water & on land. Working on plane; meetings; shots of main bombs falling thru flak.
06:37:32 Color shot of White House & Capitol.
06:37:38 B/W LeMay walking beneath B-29. Tokyo, Japan in flames. Oil storage tanks burning. Aerial over leveled blocks.
06:38:03 Japanese surrender on Missouri. LeMay testifying before Congress.
06:38:32 Berlin, Germany Damaged buildings. Blockade footage planes landing, supplies off.
06:39:00 Walter Cronkite interviewed about it w/ visuals of children eating at long tables.
06:39:15 B-36s; LeMay in command of SAC w/ range of large bombers planes shown. Rocket launched. Refueling planes.
06:39:54 JFK (SOF) talking of LeMay as LBJ watches as he is announced as Chief of Staff of Air Force & a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Photographs of LeMay smoking pipe. The End.
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Air Force Now - Curtis LeMay CU writing w/ ballpoint. 1929 biplanes in flight. LeMay talking in interview. Tells of assignment to bombers. Twin engine plane taking off past hanger w/ Langley Field on roof seen from above. 06:34:01 1938 Six B-17s fly to Argentina & back. Various shots of planes in flight. Montage of Hitler, Roosevelt, industries. Pearl Harbor bombing. 06:34:46 Color of damaged B-17s flying from England to bomb Germany. Taxiing, shot of man out of plane & kissing ground. Col. LeMay in charge of 8th AAF. Wheels down, landing. Good shot of shadow of plane landing. 06:35:26 LeMay at desk, planes in air, talking w/ pilots. Color planes starting & taking off past & over camera (GOOD). View out of bubble at other planes, bombs dropping from plane & exploding on ground. POV from behind pilot of B-29 plane landing. Various interior shots from B-29s & crash landings on water & on land. Working on plane; meetings; shots of main bombs falling thru flak. 06:37:32 Color shot of White House & Capitol. 06:37:38 B/W LeMay walking beneath B-29. Tokyo, Japan in flames. Oil storage tanks burning. Aerial over leveled blocks. 06:38:03 Japanese surrender on Missouri. LeMay testifying before Congress. 06:38:32 Berlin, Germany Damaged buildings. Blockade footage planes landing, supplies off. 06:39:00 Walter Cronkite interviewed about it w/ visuals of children eating at long tables. 06:39:15 B-36s; LeMay in command of SAC w/ range of large bombers planes shown. Rocket launched. Refueling planes. 06:39:54 JFK (SOF) talking of LeMay as LBJ watches as he is announced as Chief of Staff of Air Force & a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Photographs of LeMay smoking pipe. The End. Military History; Army Air Force; Biography; WWII; Heros; Cold War;