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WWII - 1945, US Government Documentary: China Crisis - The Story of the Fourteenth Air Force Pt 2 of 4

Reel Number: 221383-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940s

Country: China,USA

Location: South Asia

TC Begins: 08:10:48

TC Ends: 08:20:38

Duration: 00:09:50

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1945, Pacific - Supplying China Pt. 2 of 4 Animated graphics showing aerial supply route over the hump. 08:11:13 Japanese pilots run to planes, Japanese bombers taking off. Aerial formations. Air raid warning ball hoisted; Flying Tiger pilots run to planes, start engines & take off in pairs & in formation. 08:12:35 Aerial of Japanese bombers & footage inside aircraft. POV Flying Tigers attacking & gun camera of dogfights and attack on Jap bombers w/ hits. 08:14:46 CU wing guns firing. Plane diving & exploding upon impact. Picking up pieces of Japanese wreckage & boot & held up to camera. Burned dead / bodies. Gory. 08:15:32 US military officers w/ General Chennault at desk. Animated graphics of planned movement to capture & establish Chinese airfields at Hengyang, Lingling, Kweilin / Guilin, Ljuchow & others. 08:16:19 Chinese men, women & children building airstrips by hand. 90,000 worked on a single field. Digging by hand; cones of earth left show depth of soil removed’ wheelbarrows moving rocks, laying large rocks by hand for foundation. Slurry of mud & water poured over foundation. Stones crushed by hand, spread, slurry poured, then sand. 08:19:10 Long lines of men pulling large rollers. Protection revetments built; spotters & control center underground w/ telegraph & telephone. Chinese spotters run to telephones in grass & call to center. Large board tracking planes & downed pilots, w/ CUs of Americans moving tracking position markers. 08:20:31 Chinese guard beside plane; Chinese cooks. WW2; Airfield Construction; Fighting; Air Battles; 8th War Bond Drive; Army Air Force History; Horrors of War; USAAF; NOTE: Partial or entire card sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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