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WWII - Pacific: Army Air Forces Pacific R1 of 2

Reel Number: 250111-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944,1940s

Country: Burma,China,Japan,Northern Mariana Islands,USA

Location: Pacific,Saipan

TC Begins: 04:21:38

TC Ends: 04:30:44

Duration: 00:09:06

Titles. R1 of 2 04:22:00 General Hap Arnold speaks to camera, SOF, describes the AAF's role in the Pacific theater, appeals for citizen support by buying War Bonds. 04:23:27 Montage: Many parachutes dropped seen from above; air battles. Services while burying dead. Bombs dropped over China mountains, explosions. Wake Island w/ cemetery. Troops crossing jungle in Burma. Various islands bombed w/ craters seen from air. Unidentified graves. 04:24:57 Troops land equipment on beach, supplies. Snow plow in arctic w/ troops plowing snow, stacking supplies. Stock piled supplies; India & loading bombs on trucks & into planes. 04:26:13 USAAF bombing in Burma, infantry advance under P-47 fighter cover. POV strafing. GOOD. 04:27:49 Stretchers & litters carried past General Stilwell; Gordon Seagrave, treats wounded Nationalist Chinese, surgery. CU Seagrave. GOOD. 04:28:57 Ships anchored offshore, LSTs unloading trucks on Saipan, troops ashore; wounded on stretchers loaded into planes. C-47s taking off. Bombed out hangers; Japanese planes destroyed, parked. 04;30:01 Steam shovel loading trucks & conveyors to rebuild airstrip, bulldozers; laying metal runways & B-29s landing. POV from ground & plane. GOOD. WW2 fighting; War Effort; 1940s; WWII; Sold at per reel rate.

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