BOMBING OF BERLIN Part 3

Description

Summary: Seq: Group of B-17s on airfield in England takes off for Germany. LS, B-17s flying low over airfield. Fighter escorts follow. LS, B-17s release bombs on ball bearing plant in Berlin. AV, fires and bomb explosions over city. MS, planes head for England, land on airfield after raid. Flares help direct planes. MS, B-17 with damaged landing gear makes crash landing. CU, damaged plane. BOMBING OF MONASTERY.: Cassino, Italy. (Air Digest #24). AVs, stop motion, dive-bombing of monastery by P-40s. US PARATROOP MANEUVER.: England. AVs, formations of C-47s in flight. CUs, paratroopers in plane; paratroopers jumping. Jumpmaster is photographed as he decends, cigar in mouth. CU, men inside plane hookup. Excellent CUs, jumpmaster in descent. A big grin breaks out on his face as his parachute opens. (The jumpmaster holds a cigar between his teeth at all times.) Excellent scenes, paratroopers jumping, descending, and hitting ground. Static lines are pulled back into plane. FS, troopers are pulled by strong breeze across ground. MLS, treatment of wounded man. CUs, inside plane, preparations are made to drop supplies. MS, supplies and parachutes landing. The paradrop is made by C-47s. FS, supplies descending, hitting ground. MS, low flying formation dropping supplies.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities