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WWII - Color, 1945, USAAF: Napalm, Mixing & Test Dropping from B29 plane, 26Apr45

Reel Number: 250025-09

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 01:10:09

TC Ends: 01:16:34

Duration: 00:06:25

WWII - Color, 1945, USAAF: Napalm, Mixing & Test Dropping from B29 plane, 26Apr45 Men loading 55 gal charged drums into truck & moving from outdoor manufacturing plant. 01:10:45 Carefully rolling barrels off truck on ramp & stacking in jungle clearing. 01:11:09 LS Napalm mixing shed w/ army trucks backed up to it. Tank truck; discarded empty barrels. 01:11:29 MS Stacked rows of filled barrels. CUs. 01:12:20 Pan jumbled pile of empty 55 gal drums. 01:12:44 USAAF men mixing Napalm powder into barrel w/ air. CU hand in bucket of dry powder. MCU pouring napalm onto plywood surface & picking up & dropping red jelly goo. 01:13:58 Pan line of men inserting air & agitating to mix chemicals in 55 gal drums. 01:14:19 Ext w/ men fixing wooden wings to 55 gallon drums sitting beside B29 airplane; loading into plane. 01:15:26 View of drums dropping & igniting / exploding upon impact seen from plane; bomb craters visible. Dropped from low 1000 ft level; five bombs dropped from 5000 ft. WW2; Manufacturing Explosives; 1945;

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