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WWII - 1945, Kamikaze attack on USS Braine; Jap Rockets Captured; Aparri, Luzon Landing; Oil Derricks Attacked by PT Boats

Reel Number: 250048-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Brunei,Japan,Malaysia,Philippines,USA

Location: Aparri,Borneo,Miri,Okinawa,Pacific,Seria

TC Begins: 22:20:05

TC Ends: 22:27:43

Duration: 00:07:38

WWII - 1945, Kamikaze attack on USS Braine; Jap Rockets Captured; Aparri, Luzon Landing; Oil Derricks Attacked by PT Boats Title: Kamikaze Attack on USS Braine 27May45 LS low over water as kamikaze plane hits the destroyer USS Braine (DD-630) & fireball explosion. Smoking ship seen from others. Another destroyer in close to Braine to fight fire; passing hoses across & hosing down gun pits. Braine steaming away for repairs. 22:21:11 Title: Pacific - Testing Jap Rocket on Okinawa. Japanese 12 cm. incendiary rocket; MCU disassembled on table removing propellant from motor body, then unscrewing motor body from warhead. Aerial burst fuse in CU. Burster tube & incendiary pellets removed; smokeless propellant burned; pellets ignited. 95th Ordinance Bomb Squad test firing on beach out to sea. 22:24:05 Title: Pacific - 11th Airborne Cuts Jap Escape Route. C47s takes off at dawn w/ paratroopers of 11th AB Div., formation in flight; jumps near Luzon port of Aparri see from above, smoke screen seen along edge of drop zone. GOOD. 22:25:05 Landing (brief) & GIs gather ammunition boxes & gear & walk thru grass. CG4A gliders towed by C46s circle & landing. 22;25:47 Troops assemble, march off. Major General Joseph M. Swing w/ map, leaves on jeep; soldiers march along road. 22:26:18 Title: Pacific - PT Boats Fire Jap Oil. View of 7th Fleet PT boats from rear of PT boat. OIl derricks on shore, boats strafe the shores of Seria (Brunei) Miri, Sarawak , Borneo, explosions & fires burning. CU gunners. causing large oil fires. GOOD. 22:27:34 The End. WW2 Pacific Battles; Petroleum; Landing; Invasion; NOTE: Aparri Landing said to be first use of gliders in Pacific.

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