With The 17th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron Around Guadalcanal (1944)

With The 17th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron Around Guadalcanal (31Aug44) Features narration & natural sound. Pan from sign ‘17th Photo Reconnaissance’ to Lockheed P-38 Lightnings, F-5, on beach palm trees behind. Ground crew check P-38. Radio operator in tent gets line check. Camera removed from P-38 & taken to camera tent. CU sign ‘Joe’s Boiler Wks - Member of USA-USO-USAAF’. Mechanics tent. 06:07:23 Soldier operating makeshift washing machine made out of discarded equipment - narr. says he “presides over a meeting of the Guadalcanal Washing and Clam Bake Association”. Pan from laundry scene to shower area powered by same pump, naked GI washing under water drum w/ strategically-placed ‘Censored’ sign- VO “water that anoints the body beautiful”. 06:07:48 Pilots playing cards at table under trees. Operations Officer , CU Operations board w/ note ‘Pilots Do Not Take Any Identifying Material Except Dog Tags’ Officer receives mission details by telephone & writes details on board, briefs pilot using map of area. Cameras & film loaded into modified P-38 F-5; pilot walks to plane; VO says all armaments stripped from plane to accommodate cameras; machete & pistol only weapon. 676 on plane nose; camera windows cleaned; pilot into cockpit; propellers started; taxiing & takeoff. 06:10:59 Map of Southwestern Pacific showing mission route. P-38 lands & taxis to stop. Film unloaded & magazines driven by jeep to laboratory tent in jungle. Pilot describes mission to S2 Officer Captain Victor Dykes, phones information through. First prints developed & checked by lab men. Fighter squadron gets into position on runway - take off to act on information gained by reconnaissance mission. WWII. Pacific War. Military Aviation. Gags. USAAF Film Unit. Surveillance;