WWII - Color, 1940s: USAAF Daily LIfe & Training, Miami, Florida, Panama Canal Zone (1942-44)

WWII - Color, 1940s: USAAF Daily LIfe & Training, Miami, Florida, Panama Canal Zone (1942-44) 08:00:00 Top shot (model?) of B-24 flying over water. CU Emerson turret silhouetted against sky. B-24s in revetments, props turning over. CU bombs in storage rack. Men sit & smoke near tail of P-38. 08:01:34 Palm-lined street in Miami, Florida w/ women in summer dresses past, traffic; street scenes. EXT Saks Fifth Avenue department store. 08:02:42 Aerial of B-24 flying low over water, passing over boat. Vars shots destroyers thru Panama Canal locks pulled by mules; CU man pulling rope opening valve to locks; CU water rushing into lock. Tanker through canal; electric mule to FG; lock gates closing; 3 ships in lock. Three escort ships enter canal from lake; ships pulled by electric mule; CU ship pass slowly by; servicemen filling decks. 08:05:55 INT officers or engineers working on map; top shot map showing area indicating jungle, hands & instruments around map - compasses used. 08:06:45 Native workers using rock drills. CU side angle White worker using drill; idle bulldozer. CU steam shovel scoop; bulldozer working in water; grader working & moving toward camera; dump truck towards camera; man operating steam shovel. Construction. 08:09:32 B- 24 landing, pan to men on runway jumping up & down. Low angle shot Officer & woman on balcony of building w/ sign ‘Air Transport Command - Army Air Forces’. CU pilot wings; pilot walks away from camera, w/ crew boards C-47 in BG. CU ocean as plane flies over water. INT two men watch sweeping radar scope; man working on radar chart. AWS station in jungle, man operating control panel; CU operating oscilloscope. 08:12:27 B-24 flies low near island coast L-R. Air to air shot P-38 circles C-47 over ocean - clouds in BG. 08:13:08 Details US Air Force wartime training & reconnaissance activity in and around Panama. Unedited scenes. 08:13:08 Radar antenna atop small wooden building - night. CU radio tubes in operation by day; same at night. Men tossing ball back and forth. MS man leaning against bomb rack as he fingers a rosary. LS C-47 flying right to left. LS C-47 dropping supplies, parachute opens, descends, 3 men run to retrieve supplies. CU men unpacking cans of film. CU man working radarscope. Scenic sunset bayshot. 08:16:41 Aerial shot island of Carozal. Air Base on Carozul island; large goats wandering among rocks. CU B-24 taking off toward camera; B-24 taking off R-L; B-24 flying into BG of dark clouds; LS two B-24s flying L-R at dusk. 08:18:51 High pan across American Air Depot. Unloading supplies at railroad platform. INT repair & test section, P-63 towed into hangar. Loading C-54 w/ forklift hoisting crates. Men load mail bags onto C-54. CU gassing up C-54, men on wing w/ fuel hose. 08:21:45 Men playing ball; men playing cards, reading letter, smoking. LS 6th Air Force building. MS Gen Geo H. Brett next to the Swoose (or office). B/Gen Earl H. DeFord in B-24 starting engine. MCU sign in 6th AAF building ‘26th Fighter Command - Commanding General Executive’. MCU sign ‘26th Fighter Command - AWS Stat. Section’. MCU sign ‘Surgeon’ dark. 08:25:12 MCU two men under camouflage netting, shirtless, one smoking, other chewing straw. MCU six Hispanic ? GIs singing, one playing guitar; CU guitar player. Pacific War Defenses; Military Aviation - AAF. US Air Bases - Central / South America. Panamanians; Latin-Americans; NOTE: Any continuous 13 minutes sold at per reel rate.