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B-17 Returns From First Raid Over Germany; Commemoration of Landing of First AEF 26Jan42 Under Major General Hartle at Northern Island

Reel Number: 221395-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942

Country: NORTHERN IRELAND,United Kingdom

Location: belfast

TC Begins: 11:11:43

TC Ends: 11:22:13

Duration: 00:10:30

B-17 Returns From First Raid Over Germany; Commemoration of Landing of First AEF 26Jan42 Under Major General Hartle at Northern Island B-17 low & landing away from camera, taxiis to stop. Nose art: Jersey Bounce, pilot. Machine gun & gunner w/ Sleeping Beauty below window. Crew out of plane past camera. Ten crewmen pose. CU art: The 8 Ball & down to piilot chewing gum & smiling, crew beneath posing. 11:13:13 Plane w/ bullet holes & damage by gunners’ window: You’ll Be Sorry. Tail art of skeleton holding bomb. Gunner pointing at bullet hits. Tail gunner sighting past “Love And Kisses” on rear of plane. CU. 11:14:10 26Jan42 Belfast, Northern Ireland; Ceremony in front of ornate large building w/ city officials at microphones. Lord Mayor (?) & others read speeches (MOS), military behind. 11:16:11 Unveiling of carved stone. USA flag raised w/ trouble in rear of officials. Men saluting. 11:17:29 Army Air Force Major General Hartle (?) at mic reading speech. Intersection w/ British military band, soldiers parading up street, others at attention. Women’s unit marches past saluting. Men in dark coats & knit caps march past. British (?) women’s unit marching past. MCU officers at attention. 11:21:52 CU stone carving of First U.S. A.E.F. People standing around monument. WWII United Kingdom Military;

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