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WWII - 1944, Allied Documentary: Target For Today R2 of 11

Reel Number: 221776-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940s,1944

Country: England,Germany,United Kingdom,USA

Location:

TC Begins: 04:09:16

TC Ends: 04:18:02

Duration: 00:08:46

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, USAAF Bombing Command Weather Briefing, Selecting Targets, Distributing Information MS & CU labeling pressure areas on weather map. Weather briefing meeting w/ officers in Bomber Command Operations Room w/ large wall maps. MS wall clock above door: 10:00, tilt down to 2-star General walking into room & sitting down at desk, looks at map, SOF questioning weather over various targets & discussing weather forecast & effect & selecting targets of Marienberg, Anklam, Danzig, Gdynia. 04:11:37 Explanatory rolling title over picture. VO as officers leave, CU Intelligence Officer looking at aerial photographs, others working at desks in large room w/ wall maps & marking aiming attack on photograph. 04:12:34 Sign: Operational Research Section & pan to civilian men looking at targets, drawings of bombs & buildings; illustration of proper & improperly fuzed bombs & effects. Men discuss. 04:13:41 Commanding General in front of large wall map, officers w/ pointer, SOF of 2-star General & others discuss attack. 04:14:46 Diagonal split screen w/ officers talking on telephones w/ various US & British RAF Commands. British officers looking at maps & plans. Weather officers talking & looking at charts; SOF briefing Major General / 2-Star. 04:16:24 Conference call w/ operators in one circle connecting w/ three Generals at various locations, operators replaced by 4th General giving orders & numbered targets then disslve to soldiers typing at teletype machines. 04:17:45 CU of teletype printing; maps marked. WW2 8th Bomber Command; 8th USAAF; Weatherman; Meteorologists; Bombing Mission Preparations; 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

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