WWII - 1944, US Army Air Forces Dumbo Rescue Activities. Recovery of OA-10 / PBY

WWII - 1944, US Army Air Forces Dumbo Rescue Activities. Recovery of PBY LS from water, OA-10 / PBY on / near sandy beach. POV from boat / submarine chaser unloading 6 soldiers / Rangers w/ rifles into rubber raft; paddling toward shore, wading to PBY. Submarine chaser close to another. 12:42:24 CU Beached PBY, men looking at it, crew in cockpit & sub-chaser offshore. View of men in rubber raft coming ashore carrying tools to plane. 12:4:;09 Crew & island natives on sand posing & giving thumbs up. 12:43:28 Men working on plane engines, turning one over by hand. PBY overhead; men pulling PBY Soldiers & natives paddling rubber raft away from shore. Men wading to shore w/ rifles from boat. Coming off landing craft seen from shore; walk on sandy beach past camera to plane & looking at plane. 12:45:36 Digging sand from around plane pontoon. Native outrigger to shore. 12:45:48 Plane engine starting. MCU cleaning middle machine gun. LS plane on beach. 12:46:12 Men on beach eating – some shots out of focus. 12:46:25 Men in water under wing of Catalina, motor running. Landing craft anchored seen from beach. 12:46:42 Native opening coconut on sand w/ large machete, GI drinking from it. 12:46:56 Mechanics turning over motor by hand, starting & men off fuselage of plane. MS PBY in water w/ men & lines. Silhouetted soldiers on beach w/ rifles, PBY in background. Walk along beach past camera; men loading PBY; PBY beginning taxiing from various angles. WW2; US Army Air Forces; Aircraft; Rescuers; NOTE: VERY good quality. Dumbo was code name for long-range search & rescue mission aircraft NOTE: Entire short reels totaling up to ten minutes when combined sold at per reel rate.