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WWII - Color, 1942, USA Government Documentary: Battle of Midway, The

Reel Number: 250119-09

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1942

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 21:09:01

TC Ends: 21:26:35

Duration: 00:17:34

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 21:09:51 Map of Pacific w/ location of Midway Island. 21:10:01 PBY, Navy patrol plane,above & below clouds, CU pilot, Midway island from above & from water w/ navy boats around. PBY taxiing on tropical blue-green water. 21:10:43 PBY pulled from water, marines drill on dock. 21:11:16 Albatross / Gooney Birds & gulls walk on sand & flying. 21:11:50 Sunset; accordion player. Sentries. 21:12:30 B-17 Flying fortresses fueled & serviced; airmen talking. CUs. 21:13:30 Locomotive engineer. Woman in house knitting; teenager talking on phone. 21:13:50 Planes taxiing & take off. 21:14:47 Japanese airplanes attack; anti-aircraft guns firing heavy flak. CUs. Marine fighter planes take off past camera. Explosion & debris flying; bomb concussion. 21:15:57 Fire burning hanger. Fighters overhead; another bomb close by. Men running flag up pole. Heavy fack-ack & burning oil smoke. Bombs exploding. Gunners. Plane down in flames. Medics working. Heavy flames w/ hanger burning w/ heavy black smoke. Plane crashed & Japanese red wing markings burning. 21:18:08 Air to air of formation of planes over ships, aircraft carrier. 21:18:48 Aircraft take off from carrier intercut w/ guns firing from carrier; other ships. Ship burning. Planes over, diving, men on deck watching. 21:20:21 MCUs pilots out of planes, introduced by narration. Burning hangers & wreckage of Japanese planes on Midway; sea birds on debris. 21:21:47 PBY in flight - searching for survivors; fighter plane in sea. Fighter crew survivors; stretcher unloaded from PBY, into ambulance; walking wounded greet others, some into ambulance smiling, given blankets. Wreckage of barracks & hospital w/ charred Red Cross sign among timbers. 21:23:55 Services on sand next to bomb crater where chapel stood; caskets w/ flags; men salute. Convoy of PT boats sails w/ flag-covered coffins to be buried at sea. Lookout watches planes fly over island w/ binoculars; huge plume of burning oil smoke. 21:25:48 Red Vs & black X painted over signs w/ statistics of Japanese losses. WW2 Battles; Fighting; WWII Propaganda; Documentary Film; 1942; NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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