WWII - Color, 1945, Vietnam: Liberated Allies On Airfield w/ C-47s Near Saigon. 06Sep45

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Color, 1945, Vietnam: Liberated Allies On Airfield w/ C-47s Near Saigon. 06Sep45 Slate: Kiddie 06Sep45 Roll K-POW-5, Saigon, FIC. (French Indochina) 02:11:37 LS Two C-47s parked on field w/ army staff car past & crews near planes; MS Soldiers in Oriental military uniforms standing about on field, Americans in shorts behind. 02:12:24 Three American soldiers (one pointing possibly A. Peter Dewey): one w/ large still camera & an Oriental on runway. 02:12:32 Refueling C-47, refueling truck leaves. CU plane engine starting. View from plane window of a C-47 landing. 02:14:01 Air to air of C-47, tail no. 765, circling low over farm fields & marsh (close & good footage). 02:15:18 Parked plane w/ tail markings 636; X bom-car (?). American soldiers standing by tail & looking in open door, eight or nine Americans (?) in khaki off plane. 02;15:42 LS C-47 w/ wide cargo doors parked w/ troops, many in shorts, around; tail no C 8588 340500 (?). Men (OSS?) walk past along line of four other parked C-47s. MS women, soldiers & civilians under wing. Tall US soldier talking w/ oriental civilians; women & children moving past movie camera on tripod to board plane (?). WW2; Southeast Asia; Clandestine Operations; Special Operations; Prisoners of Water; Liberation; Southeast Asia; Operations; 1940s; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: OSS / Office of Strategic Services team headed by A. Peter Dewey arrived 04Sep45 to represent US interests & collect intelligence to repatriate Americans from 2 Japanese camps. He was killed 26Sep45 by Viet Minh, the first American death in Vietnam. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk