AERIAL WIRE LAYING Part 2

Description

Summary: Boxes holding telephone wire are placed aboard C-47. Inks, men in plane test boxes of wire before takeoff. Plane lets out wire cable by parachute. VS, ground crew hooking up wire. BOMB DAMAGE TO MANNHEIM.: German: 1945. AVs, damaged buildings and bridge; damaged marshalling yards and industrial plants. BATTER UP.: Kunming, China: 06/03/1945. VS, baseball game between Flying Tigers, whose pitcher is Gen Claire Chennault, and male and female hospital staff team. The pitcher for the staff is a nurse. (Note: scratches appear in a few scenes). BOMB DAMAGE, Merseburg, Germany. AVs, damaged buildings and synthetic oil producing plants. AVs, from low- flying plane, detail of damage to plant buildings and equipment. Ground shots, damaged oil plants showing equipment and buildings in shambles. AIRBORNE ATTACK ON LUZON. Philippine: 06/23/1945. LS, silhouettes of three C-47s taxiing on airstrip for takeoffs at dawn. LS, flight of C-47s flying over mountainous region. LS, C-47s in flight; on ground, smoke screen is laid to protect troops from sniper fire. LS, hundreds of paratroopers dropping from planes at Appari. LS from ground, looking almost directly overhead, two C-46s towing gliders. LS from ground, two CG-4 gliders landing. LMS, several wrecked gliders. CU, injured soldier with bloody face. MCU, soldier's head is bandaged. Paratroopers, some in vehicles, en route to Cagayan River.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities