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B-26 Supply Drop to Bougainville; B-26 Day Bombing Germany 250173-11 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[WWII - 1943/44  B-26 Supply Drop to Bougainville;  B-26 Day Bombing Germany] 
Intertitle:  13th AAFCCU 804A.  Surrounded Marines Supplied By Parachute, Empress Augusta Bay  09Dec43
11:21:07:00  POV from behind 5 C-47 in flight over water toward Bougainville from Munda; Grumman F-6F fighter plane alongside C-47.  Along coastline w/ mountain peaks into clouds.  Aerials of C-47s
11:22:15  Int. w/ men moving cargo to open C-47 door; CU static lines attached; ext. view of bundles in doorway, views of jungle.  Int & men kicking out crates, parachutes descending into jungle clearing to resupply Marines.  LS other planes dropping.  Men in plane close doors & remove parachutes.
11:23:11  Intertitle:  8th AAFCCU  756 B.  Target Germany.  
11:23:16  CU hoisting 500 lb bombs.  Four men moving bombs & moving, assembling & loading into B-26 & bomb bay doors closing; crew into plane, motors starting, taxiing & taking off w/ officers watching w/ binoculars.  15 planes in formation overhead.
11:24:17  Aerial of planes; interior w/ crew, view crossing over channel, flak around planes.  View from below of open bomb bay doors, bombs falling & explosions in forest near railroad & highways.  Various size explosions.  View of bombers below over farm fields, explosions.  Intercut CU bombs drop (brief), explosions,  CUs pilot & crewmembers.  Side, below & above views of planes dropping bombs, heavy flak
11:27:10  CU over plane, bombs exploding below.  Air to air bombers thru flak.  Bombs exploding near & in coast town, flak exploding close around planes. 
11:29:20  LS from in plane of formation.  The End.
; 1943; 1944; 1940s; Pacific; Europe;

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