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WWII - Color, 1944, Burma: Allies Recapturing Myitkyina, OSS Spotter Plane, Crew & Natives

Reel Number: 221602-11

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Burma,Myanmar (Burma)

Location: Myitkyina

TC Begins: 13:52:41

TC Ends: 14:03:32

Duration: 00:10:51

WWII - Color, 1944, Burma: Allies Recapturing Myitkyina, OSS Spotter Plane, Crew & Natives Aerials over town (Myitkyina (?) w/ smoke along muddy brown Irrawaddy River; through low clouds. Farms, bomb smoke (?). 13:54:21 Men fueling Stinson monoplane on dirt airstrip. C-47 parked. Fighter plane divebombing seen from ground beyond air strip. 13:55:52 C-47 dropping supplies w/ parachutes over jungle village. Slate: Bob Rhea. Views of jungle w/ dirt road & small dirt airstrip. View past pilot in cockpit. Australians or New Zealanders into & out of Stinson monoplane; one puts on pistol. 13:57:35 Four planes coming overhead. 13:58:14 Slate. People along path to Army Air Force monoplane on dirt strip; takes off slowly & circles. Men pose for camera. Man cranking plane to start; gets in. POV from plane. Airstrip from plane. 14:00:30 Planes seen from ground as though approaching to land. 14:01:01 Flying Tigers P-40 fighter plane landing on larger strip near village. Fighter planes in flight (not so good). 14:01:40 Small planes landing: no. 44, no. 29 14:01:57 Villagers & OSS man talking beside small piper cub plane on grass runway. Other air crewmen talking. Plane takes off past camera & over hills. Returning over camera to land; another landing towards camera. Ethnic; Southern Asia; WW2;

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