WWII - 1944, Guadalcanal: With 17th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron

Titles. 02:25:17 Sign: 17th Photo Reconnaissance beside Guadalcanal airstrip. Converted P-38 aka F5 warming up. Ground crew working on plane, checking radio; maintenance man cleaning camera & replacing. 02:26:15 Camera carried to camera tent; repairing. Sign: Joe’s Boiler Wk’s... 02:26:39 Rube Goldberg-type laundry machine operating w/ gas motor & pumping for shower. Pilots playing gin rummy outside tents. Assignment operations board. Man takes phone call w/ instructions; assigns to pilot who is briefed at map for Solomon Islands & Buka. 02:28:30 Photographic cameras into P-38. Pilot boards plane, starts engine. Takes off . 02:30:06 Animated route on map. Plane returns & lands, taxiis. 02:31:21 Camera magazine removed, by jeep to portable lab. Pilot to debriefing & go over maps w/ S2 officer Captain Victor Dykes who reports on telephone. Men taking prints out of lab machinery. 02:34:08 Fighter squadron rolls onto runway, taking off. The End. WWII USAAF Daily Life; WW2; Military Aviation; Gags; Surveillance;