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WWI - 1918 / 1919, Aviation Activities in the AEF Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 250149-01-P2

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1918,1919

Country: France,USA

Location: Cazaux,Dogneville,Gironde

TC Begins: 10:08:12

TC Ends: 10:16:51

Duration: 00:08:39

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI - Activities of the following Aero Squadrons during World War I: 1st, 2nd, 12th, 13th, 24th, 99th, 103rd, 132nd, 135th, 139th, 147th, 148th, 185th, and 258th; the 88th and 284th Observation Squadrons, and the 9th Reconnaissance Sqdn. R1 of ?? Continued... Five bi-winged aircraft in flight, three Air Service personnel, one looking at sky w/ binoculars, two others sit at table; one drawing lines inside a large circle drawn on a sheet of paper beside a "Camera Obscura". Man inside the "Camera Obscura" plotting course of an aircraft. Two Air Service lieutenants hold & look thru old (on left) & new Michelin bombsight (on right). 10:09:43 MLS Breguet l4 A.2 flies low over field. LS six 75mm bombs exploding in field. 10:10:01 30Dec18 Pan across water to buildings & hangars at Aerial Bombing School, Cazaux, Gironde, France. An aircraft resembling a Farman F-40 w/ floats taxiing on water at beginning of scene. 10:10:47 Bi-wing twin engine three-man Letord aircraft w/ engines running, parked; ground crewmen watch. 10:10:56 Aerial of Aerial Bombing School at Cazaux, France & Camp Hunt; pilots & two cameramen seen. 10:12:05 Ground view of Camp Hunt barracks, either side of the street; MCU French Naval gunner firing a Lewis 30 caliber machine gun mounted in a wooden frame as several French Air Service & Naval personnel look on; buildings in bg. High angle pan of warehouses at Camp Hunt. 10:12:31 Men carry supplies from building, load into truck. MLS high angle pan & aerials of Camp Hunt. 10:13:13 MS Letord bi-motor aircraft taxiing left, executing 90 degree right turn & taxiing right -- ground crewmen are holding onto wing of aircraft at end of scene. 10:13:31 11Aug18, Dogneville, France. Mechanics of 99th Aero Squadron beside two parked Salmson 2 A.2's. MCU Lt. G. C. Kahle beside wing of Salmson 2 A.2 puts on liner & flying helmet. Kahle & Lt. F. A. Hill, observer, climb into cockpit. Hill puts ammunition canisters on twin machine gun mount in rear cockpit of Salmson 2 A.2, tests machine gun mount, then is handled an aerial camera by a ground crewman. 10:14:50 Two ground crewmen test action of a Salmson 2 A.2 machine gun. 10:15:09 Salmson 2 A.2 taxiing away & making its takeoff run. 10:15:21 MS ground crewman turning prop, engine starts. Salmson 2 A.2 takes off. 10:15:44 MCU Lt. Frank A. Llewellyn beside a Salmson 2 A.2 putting on flight goggles, take off. 10:15:54 MCU Lt. Frank A. Llewellyn putting on goggles; crewman turning prop as observer tests machine gun mount in rear cockpit. MS low angle, Salmson 2 A.2 in flight low over ground & over camera. 10:16:31 MS Lt. M. C. Markham & Lt. L. S. Powell viewing paper iron crosses pasted over bullet holes in the horizontal stabilizer of their Salmson 2 A.2. MS RV of aircraft ground crewman pushing a damaged Salmson 2 A.2 over grassy field toward camera at Dogneville, France, 26 August 1918. WW1; Military Aviation; Pilots; Training; French; NOTE: The camera obscura is a device with a lens pointed toward the sky and produces an image of an airplane as it flies overhead -- the camera is the objective at which trainee bombardiers fire a Very pistol). NOTE: Entire film 10:00:13 - 10:16:51 (two cards) sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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