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Iran Staging Area for USA - USSR Lend-Lease 221668-05 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[Iran Staging Area for USA - USSR Lend-Lease, 1940s]
Mosque & minarets w/ pedestrians on foot & w/ horse carts.  MCU.  People outside entrance to mosque.
20:34:51  Men working on ??.  US airman painting out USA star on airplane as others (Russian?) watch.  Men pushing fighter plane back, star on plane still visible.  Pilot into plane & starting engine.  Many fighters on field in background.  Taking off & raising wheels passing camera.
20:36:16  Three cranes and many tires in supply dump.  American & Russian soldiers looking at supplies & paperwork.  Pan over stacks of crates.  Men standing by hoist, pushing rail car w/ large bottom of railcar; hoisting bottom of railcar & rolling railroad wheels on axles beneath & positioning.  Attaching couplers.
20:37:43  Russian officer making notes of crates on railroad flatcars. 
20:37:58  Diesel freight train across desert w/ freight cars.  Rail yard w/ supply trains moving & parked.  Steam engine  w/ much black smoke pulling train across desert.
20:39:09  Rail yard activity w/ train past.
20:39:37  Mountain gorge & diesel out of tunnel.  Runby along rocky canyon bottom.
WWII; WW2 Lend-Lease; USSR; Soviet Military;
NOTE:  Lend-lease aircraft possibly at Abadan Field.

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