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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221776-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s,1944
Country: England,Germany,United Kingdom,USA
Location:
TC Begins: 04:46:29
TC Ends: 04:57:11
Duration: 00:10:42
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, USAAF Bombing Command Mission: Preparations, Take Off & in Flight. B-17 & B-24s SOF Chaplain leads crew in pre-flight prayer. Leave flight room w/ gear, in trucks onto airfield & to parked B-24s & B-17s; out of trucks w/ gear & briefing beside plane, boarding. 04:49:03 Montage: interior w/ machine gunners, pilots & others to positions & preparing. Checking watches, CU 6:59 till 7:00, CUs engines start, B-24 begins to taxi, signal pistol fired from control tower. 04:50:58 B-17 & B-24s taxiing, MCUs, MSs, LSs. LS of line of planes waiting; signal pistol; taking off. 04:53:08 Aerial of runway w/ planes waiting, motors running, intercut w/ taking off & raising wheels. 04:54:08 Planes bank, turn to get into formation of three; aerials of threes joining for squadrons of 6; then combat wing assembled. 04:54:46 Side view w/ overlay showing 850 ft depth; illustration from above w/ VO explaining. View head on. 04:56:18 Side view of three groups over 3,000 ft vertical. WW2 8th Bomber Command; 8th USAAF; Bombing Mission Preparations; Takeoffs; Assembly; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Very good quality. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk