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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221668-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1940s
Country: Iran
Location: Abadan Field,Teheran
TC Begins: 20:34:13
TC Ends: 20:40:07
Duration: 00:05:54
Iran Staging Area for USA - USSR Lend-Lease, 1940s Mosque & minarets w/ pedestrians on foot & w/ horse carts. MCU. People outside entrance to mosque. 20:34:51 Men working on ??. US airman painting out USA star on airplane as others (Russian?) watch. Men pushing fighter plane back, star on plane still visible. Pilot into plane & starting engine. Many fighters on field in background. Taking off & raising wheels passing camera. 20:36:16 Three cranes and many tires in supply dump. American & Russian soldiers looking at supplies & paperwork. Pan over stacks of crates. Men standing by hoist, pushing rail car w/ large bottom of railcar; hoisting bottom of railcar & rolling railroad wheels on axles beneath & positioning. Attaching couplers. 20:37:43 Russian officer making notes of crates on railroad flatcars. 20:37:58 Diesel freight train across desert w/ freight cars. Rail yard w/ supply trains moving & parked. Steam engine w/ much black smoke pulling train across desert. 20:39:09 Rail yard activity w/ train past. 20:39:37 Mountain gorge & diesel out of tunnel. Runby along rocky canyon bottom. WWII; WW2 Lend-Lease; USSR; Soviet Military; NOTE: Lend-lease aircraft possibly at Abadan Field.