WWII - 1943ca, USAF: B-24, 200th Mission Of The 376th Heavy Bombardment Group

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1943ca, USAF: B-24, 200th Mission Of The 376th Heavy Bombardment Group Machine gunners inside B-24 Liberator bomber setting up machine guns in side doors & feeding ammunition belts into them; putting on life vests & parachutes; oxygen masks. 07:18:58 MS from outside, Bombardier preparing. 07:19:51 Pilot at controls from center rear. 07:20:12 Formation of bombers overhead, windsock in foreground; low over airfield & banking, Landing. Big Nig 92 in mud, crew out & taking off parachutes & posing beside plane. 07:22:06 General Ridenour & pilot K.K. Compton shaking hands. 07:22:29 Doolittle & Compton. Unid. posing in front of Dark Angel. 07:22:00 Line of airmen; Ridenour speaking from side of truck; General Jimmy Doolittle speaking. Men lined up for ceremony. All walking across field. 07:23:48 Men looking at damage to B-24 w/ part of wing shot away & hole of flak thru rear stabilizer; damaged wing & piece missing from propellor. Flak hole in rudder. Shattered plexiglass in machine gun bubble. Other flak damage. WW2; Ceremony; NOTE: Big Nig flown by Keith Compton on 200th mission, 14Dec43 from San Pancrazio, Italy bombing Tatoi A/D, Athens, Grece. On 20Dec43 Big Nig was rammed by an ME-109 over Sofia, Bulgaria. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us w/ further information for cataloging at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk