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WWII - Colour, 1945, Pacific: USAAF Documentary, The Last Bomb Card 1 of 2

Reel Number: 220436-05-P1

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945,1940s

Country: Guam,Japan,Northern Mariana Islands,USA

Location: Guam,IWO JIMA,Marianas Islands,Pacific,Saipan,Tinian

TC Begins: 01:39:41

TC Ends: 02:06:15

Duration: 00:26:34

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Colour, 1945, Pacific: USAAF B-29s & P-51s Fighting Card 1 of 2 Titles. 01:40:12 Animated map of route from Guam, Saipan & Tinian to Japan targets, zoom in on Guam. 01:40:45 Shots from ship of shoreline of Guam; villages & natives, Chamorro man weaving basket. 01:41:07 Massive US military supply dump - piles of bombs, activity. Airfield. Rows of tents. Camp activities, washing laundry, taking showers. High Angle / HA airfield, planes moving about, taxiing. 01:42:06 Ground crews repairing engine; moving bombs - men manually turning propeller of B-29 bomber. Boarding, props turning. 01:42:48 Sign: Headquarters XXI Bomber command - briefing / planning raid. USAAF General LeMay w/ cigar & officers at table discussing weather w/ wall map. Decision made to strike Tokyo. LeMay leaves meeting. 01:44:08 Other officers in meeting make preparations, intercut w/ ground activity. Bombs moved & loaded on B-29s. Maps marked; items checked off planning sheets. 01:45:25 Aerials, American Navy ships at sea. Planning meeting w/ Lt. Col. Cap (?), project officer. Control room w/ man kneeling on map table moving markers showing flight lines. 01:47:19 Airfield, lines of B-29 bombers warming up. LS line taxiing, taking off. 01:48:48 Shots from inside aircraft; flying over ship. Pilot & crew. 01:49:16 Tinian & bombers of 58th & 313th Wings taking off. 01:50:44 Interior control tower. Man on phone talking to clerks at typewriters. Operations report board. 01:51:15 Aircraft flying in formation over sea. Interior plane, various shots crew - activities. Aerial Iwo Jima airfield. Military cemetery. Steam shovel clearing airfield on Iwo Jima. Smoking soil. 01:52:11 Aerial of Iwo Jima airfield, ground shot of many P-51 Mustangs. 01:52:18 General Thomas E. Moore looking at map (exterior); P-51 fighters warming up, nose art: The Deacon. Take offs. planes in formation, rendezvous w/ B-29s. 01:53:36 Control room & plotting markers. Interior bomber & crew. Fighters & bombers in flight. US planes under attack by Japanese. Int. gunners compartment. Ext., machine guns firing. Mustang fighter escorts. 01:55:15 Lead bombers drop smoke markers. Group reforms. Flak. Coastline of Japan, snow capped Mt. Fujiama. US planes under attack by Japanese. Combat footage, Jap kamikaze planes try to ram bombers. Jap fighters drop phosphorus bombs. Jap plane goes down in flames. CU P-51s. 01:58:38 Interior plane, spotter signals to drop bombs; bombs dropping, bombs away over Tokyo. Aerials bombed area, smoke rising from Japanese aircraft plants; over Tokyo buildings destroyed previously by fire strikes. 02:01:06 Fighters, dogfight - plane in flames towards camera. More dogfighting. 02:03:05 Descending pilot under parachute. Fighter plane chasing Jap plane; others fly low strafing buildings & railway yard; attacks steam railroad train. Strafing industrial areas & airfield, planes in flames on ground. Plane flies low over sandy beach. WW2 History; 21st Bomber command; Fighting; Battles; Historical Propaganda; NOTE: Any continuous 18 minutes of 2 cards, 01:39:41 - 02:14:54, at per reel rate.

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