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WWII - Color, 1942-1943, USAAF: Eighth AAF Crew in USA; Coastal Bombing Mission R15 of 34

Reel Number: 220969-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942,1943,1940s

Country: England,Germany,United Kingdom,USA

Location: RAF Bassingbourn

TC Begins: 05:28:32

TC Ends: 05:50:17

Duration: 00:21:45

WWII - Color, 1942 ca, USAAF: Eighth AAF Crew in USA(?); Coastal Bombing Mission MS crew of MEMPHIS BELLE on speakers stand - microphones, pilot talks (MOS) to civilian audience, holds black scottie dog, Stuka, & introduces crew to crowd. 05:33:00 B-17 low fly bys w/ hangers in background. Civilians around stand as crew climbs ladder to it. 05:33:41 Crew on speakers stand. MS same as first scene. 2nd camera?, flight crew signing paper (autograph?) in background. LS of crowd, speaker & dog & aircraft. CU speaker. 05:42:55 Black. 05:43:15 Aerial of B-17. Aerial single aircraft very close. 05:44:05 Slate: 49. Formation shots; twilight; contrails; Very dark, may or may not include aircraft w/ No. 4 engine on fire. Aerial LS fighter attack on B-17 w/ incoming tracers & several scenes of fighter attack on B-17's. Aerial single B-17 & formation of B-17; vapor trails. B-17's taxiing, taken from nose of B-17 & Nose camera view of take off. 05:45:37 Several bombs falling. City on rivers. Flak. Coastline. Aeriasl of B-17 formations in flight. 05:46:19 Black (too dark to be useful.) 05:46:42 Slate: 50. Dark of bombs dropped over coastal area, farmlands. Bombs falling (may be slow motion). Over port harbors (?). 05:48:35 Slate: 51. Dark, close flak bursts. Fighter planes attacking (very hard to see). 05:49:14 MS men leave B-17 after mission, kiss ground. 05:49:27 Aerial from below of B-17 in flight, No. 3 engine smoking. 05:49:35 Slate: 52. Aerial formation of B-17 against blue sky. several scenes. GOOD. WW2; 1940s; Military Aviation; 8th USAAF; 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group; Aerial Battles; Europe; NOTE: Entire or partial sold at per reel rate.

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