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OSS - Campbell Missile Part One

Reel Number: 220719-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Germany,Norway,USA

Location: Chesapeake Bay

TC Begins: 20:27:12

TC Ends: 20:36:51

Duration: 00:09:39

OSS - Campbell Missile Shows series of tests on waterborne missile "Campbell”, remotely controlled by radio and television. Aircraft taking off from carrier. AV harbour. Aircraft in formation flight. Ship at sea relays alarm message. Operations room where information is collated. Barrage balloons and Antiaircraft fire (ack ack). Planes in flak. German ship patrol harbours. Enemy minelayers. Int. operator using hydrophonic detectors. German coastal defenses - big guns. Graphic shots harbour defences - booms, submarine nets, minefield etc. Various shots German naval ships, could be in Norway. 20:29:56 with many bridges. Brief shots Germans disembarking from ship. Submarine pens. AV unid enemy harbors. Docks, loading and unloading supplies. 20:30:35 Spring 1944 Chesapeake Bay - various high ranking officers to watch new Campbell missile test. Small motor boat heading out to sea - plane takes off. The unmanned boat, which is a missile, will be radio controlled from the plane. Graphics explaining methods. Plane in flight. Campbell operator in plane watching television screen and takes over control of motor boat. Graphics. Unmanned boat at sea. Boat brought in close to “targets” including tankers and ferryboats. 20:34:13 Target ship SS San Pablo anchored in Gulf of Mexico. Men building disguise boat around Campbell missile. Finished disguise is old fishing boat. 20:35:43 Fishing boat at sea undergoing trials. On board “fishing boat” soundproofing to disguise motors is shown. Soundtrack of diesel engine played over loudspeakers. Inventions; WWII; WW2;

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