WWII - 1944, Aviation: 239th British Wing, Bad Weather Termoli, Italy; Major Richard Bong, New Guinea. Feb44; Apr44

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, Aviation: 239th British Wing, Bad Weather Termoli, Italy; Major Richard Bong, New Guinea. Feb44 & Apr44 British Trucks & tents above, but surrounded by, water in camp, soldiers moving about; pan across wet camouflaged tents in breeze. Truck along muddy road beside filled stream bed. 10:18:59 Slate: Dir Sheridan, camera: Sgt Sheaps. Slate 4. View across water on metal mesh runway. MCU mechanic working on Hawker Hurricane w/ British markings parked in water; airmen in boots walk past another, engine started & signaled for taxiing w/ bomb beneath, CUs. 10:20:40 LS snow on mountains w/ low fog / clouds, pan across farms. 10:21:07 Slate: same, no. 8. LS hillside w/ snow, pan to valley & fog & light snow on fields. Slate 9: deeper snow after fresh snowfall. Truck w/ troops along snow-covered hillside road. 10:21:57 Troops carrying mess cups out of Quonset hut w/ sign: Church Army Canteen, & across mud & deep standing water, MCUs. MLS across rutted mud. MS men pounding tent stakes; others out of tents to cook shack. Standing in line in rain, CUs of boots & tin cups & plates. 10:23:29 Soldiers washing dishes in metal tank w/ steam rising. 10:23:54 MS of unid. twin-engine bomber plane sunk in mud. MS tent standing in water w/ planes behind, airmen walking thru water, various large aircraft in background. 10:24:39 P-38 low past over water & against clouds. 10:24:52 MCU Major Richard Bong in cockpit w/ gunner & 27 Japanese kill patches on fuselage; motors start & plane taxiis past onto dirt runway & taking off (GOOD) 10:25:47 Two men walk to plywood building w/ sign: Radio Guinea, enter. Interior: two men w/ headsets at microphone. One man signals to man on right, Richard Bong who speaks (MOS) as other watches stop watch. MCU Bong talking / reading script. 10:26:40 Major Bong in Khakis on plane wing & into cockpit. CU kill flags on fuselage; MS Bong in cockpit w/ engines running, begins taxiing away. MLS taxiing on runway. 10:28:01 Bong into cockpit, lowers canopy. Raises canopy & climbs out, walk away from plane. 10:28:30 Pilot walking away from plane (brief). LS takeoff run. 10:28:43 Aerial above fluffy cumulus clouds, ground & scattered palm plantation visible thru. MCU P-38 turning past. Aerial over factory / warehouses among trees. LS formation of fighter planes r. to l. w/ mountains behind / below. WW2; Aviation; Wet Weather; Rain; Ace; Hero; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk