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Lancaster Bombers Takeoffs; Large Bombs; Braunschweig railroad 250083-01 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[WWII - Color, 1945, Germany:  Berlin (?) Damage; Lancaster Bombers Sunset Takeoffs; Loading Large Bombs; Braunschweig railroad station]
Slow smooth tracking right to left past Berlin bombed  & leveled buildings w/ only partial walls standing.
20:01:59  Reverse direction.
20:02:07  Again reverse direction.
20:02:44  Slate:  Kelley  RAF T-30. Liberator bombers taking off at sunset or sunrise.
20:05:24  Slate (illegible) MCU gunner wearing oxygen mask in plexiglass bubble rotating gun.  Low angle MS of RAF pilot or officer pointing.  Very large bombs (4000 lb cookie bomb ?) pulled on carts loaded on four-engine plane on tarmac; rolled under bomb bay doors & raised into plane.  Smaller bombs also.
20:09:03  CU & MS attaching hoist & lifting bombs into plane.
20:10:23  CU sign Braunschweig.  Destroyed building w/ Braunschweig Hbt on end.  Railroad cars in yard.  People walk thru remains of cleaned up railroad station, only walls remaining.
20:11:29  Ruins w/ partially standing walls, chimneys.  Pan & static shots.
20:13:10  Slate:  Kelley RAF  T-33.  Pilot & crew w/ cocker spaniel doing tricks under plane wing.
20:14:13  Slate:  Kelley P-51  T-45.  Aerial of four USAAF low wing single seat P-51 Mustang (?) fighter planes in formation.  CU pilot.  Other formations peeling & diving; air to air alongside & peeling off & diving.
20:16:42  Slate:  XA31 17Jun45  Brunswick.  Trucking shot past severely damaged Berlin (?) buildings w/ only chimneys & occasional partial walls left standing, pedestrians past occasionally.  
Post-WW2; 1945; Bomb Damage; Bombing Aftermath; 
NOTE:  Good quality & exposure.

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