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Army Air Forces Report 221583-03.mp4 | Footage Farm

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1943. AAF Report  Pt. 3 of 4
Diagram of US Pacific hits & describes surprise Japanese assault on Kiska.  Location & strategic purpose of the positions of 11th Air Force; the 6th Air Force in Panama; & the 8th AAF in England
11:20:17  German industries - steel foundry / works - armament production.  
11:20:47  Bombers from England to Germany, daylight bombing over factory - explosion.  Night shots of RAF air raid & explosions, German searchlights (staged?).
11:21:21  Berlin w/ troops clearing rubble, police direct civilians, soup kitchen - repairing railroad.
11:21:45  Daylight bombs drop - targets superimposed by maps & calendars
11:22:22  US pilots & crew board bombers.  B-17 Flying Fortresses & B-24 Liberators take off from English base.  Fighter airfields, P-47 Thunderbolts warm up; signal pistol, take off.  Twin engine P-38 Lightnings take off.  Aircraft meet & bombers w/ fighter escort in formation towards Germany. 
11:23:57  German Operations room - air raid warning received.  Enemy coastal anti-aircraft guns firing.  Flak. Air-raid alarm siren, German pilots scramble, engines cranked.  German Focke-Wulf & ME-109 take off.  Dog-fight between German and US fighters.  
11:25:36  US bombers with contrails (GOOD).  Bombers fire machine guns.  Flak - damaged planes.  Shot from German plane of fighter firing on US bomber. (GOOD)
11:27:26  Bombardier over target, bombs drop, smoke rising from target along river. 
11:27:54  Europe & England on map. Narrator describes secret airforce, codename Junior, became 12th AAF   in North Africa.  Fighter planes strafing, wrecked German plane in Tunisia.  German film of tri-motor transport reinforcements being flown to North Africa.  USAAF downs German transport planes. 
11:29:10  Map showing location of 9th AAF & RAF  in North Africa. 
11:29:26  Amphibious landing during invasion of Italy & Sicily.  Landing craft,  troops on the beaches & air cover.  Fighting, mortars fired, beachhead operations / fighting.  Troops dig foxholes.  Equipment landed.  Aerial of bombing campaign in Italy from air & ground.
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