AIR ATTACKS Part 1

Description

Summary: Animated map pinpoints Wotje Atoll (Marshall Islands) 24 July 1944. AVs, B-24s in flight, dropping bombs. Animated map pinpoints Woleai Atoll (Caroline Islands) 26 July 1944. AV, island in smoke. Animated map pinpoints Tinian Island (Marianas) 30 July 1944. AVs, Tinian with smoke bursts from bomb hits. Animated map pinpoints Palau Island Group (Caroline Islands), 25 August 1944. B-24s over target, low level. Bombs exploding. AIR ATTACKS.: Balkans:. Animated map pinpoints Bucharest, Roumania, 26 Aug 1944. AVs, bombs hitting Ploesti. Animated map points to Budapest, Hungary, 27 Aug 1944. AVs, bombs dropped on bridge 40 miles SE of Budapest. Map designating Miskolc, Hungary, 29 Aug 1944. AVs, bombs dropping on Miskolc. Animated map points to Brest, France, 17-18 Sept 1944. AVs, from low flying plane of damaged buildings and wrecked railroad yards. AVs, bomb-damaged harbor installations; German submarine pens undamaged. AVs, ships scuttled in harbor entrance to prevent entrance of Allied ships. Ground shots, damaged harbor installations, submarine pens, and wrecked buildings, HS, showing wrecked vehicles in city square; medical corpsmen moving dead and wounded from wreckage. HS, thousands of German prisoners assembled in stockade American medics placing wounded on stretchers aboard hospital train. Ints of hospital train, nurse helps bandage patients in berth. LS, MSs, prisoners board freight trains. Train load of prisoners pulls out while spectators shake fists and shout at them.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities