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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221367-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
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TC Begins: 06:08:42
TC Ends: 06:19:12
Duration: 00:10:30
XIX Tactical Air Command, Gen. Quesada 21-27Jun44 R2 of ? P-47 fighter planes taxi past w/ dust kicked up, metal matting visible. Taking off 06:11:05 Gun camera following & shooting twin-engine plane; coming up from below w/ fire beginning & debris falling off. 06:11:51 Gun camera of single engine fighter hit & bursts of flame & smoke. Going down, GOOD. 06:12:16 Other single engine planes from behind & trailing smoke, going down. 06:13:08 Strafing airfield w/ planes on ground. Hitting twin-engine plane trying to taxi. More strafing airfield & hitting. Dogfight after another single engine plane low over field, burst into flames. Another bursts into flames. GOOD. 06:14:10 No. 2769 21Jun44 2nd Lt. Anderson 512 Sqdn 406 FG Strafing & hitting truck or tank on road. Note: all following strafing on 24Jun44 unless noted. 06:14:19 No. 2772 Capt. Harrold 378 Sqdn 362 FG Mission 410 Road. Too Brief. 06:14:25 No. 2773 Lt. Mills 378 Sqdn 362 FG Mission 411 Railroad. 06:14:33 No. 2775 Lt. Crutchfield 378 Sqdn 362 FG Mission 411 Railroad train(s) & burst into smoke. 06:14:51 No. 2778 Lt. Barnesfield 377 Sqdn 362 FG Mission ?? V. Brief train. 06:14:56 No. 2781 Lt. Matte 378 Sqdn 362 FG Mission 410 Truck or tank on road; strafing railroad yard; strafing truck on road, 3 passes. 06:15:26 No. 2782 Lt. Kraft 377 Sqdn 362 FG Mission ?? Train & smoking, three passes; truck or ??. 06:16:02 No. 2783 Lt. Humphries 377 Sqdn 362 FG Mission ?? Low freight train from side, two passes. GOOD. 06:16:28 No. 2786 Lt. Tedards 377 Sqdn 362 FG Mission ?? Strafing ?? 06:16:41 No. 2787 Lt. Fairbanks 377 Sqdn 362 FG Mission ? Railroad, 3 passes. 06:17:09 No. 2793 Capt. Beeson 377 sqdn 362 FG Very low, railroad, higher & much smoke going up. 06:17:25 No. 2823 Lt. Schubert 380 Sqn 363 FG Mission 95 Water tower. 06:17:40 No. 2824 Lt. Williams 25Jun44 380 Sqdn 363 FG Mission 96 Railroad & truck & ?? 06:18:10 No. 2828 Maj Ingelido 27Jun44 412 Sqdn 373 FG Railroad v. low, several passes GOOD. 06:18:45 No. 2829 Capt Damico 27Jun44 412 Sqdn 373 Railroad. 06:18:53 No. 2837 Capt. N.J. Adams 27Jun44 23 Sqdn 36 FG Mission 1 Railraod 19th Air Command; Army Air Force;