ROME, ITALY ; INTERROGATION OF FIGHTER PILOTS, SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND Part 2

Description

Signal Corps ADC 1433 111 AFCF Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP 965' Composite (Partial) 1433-1 ROME, ITALY 6 June 1944 (0-860) SILENT Stationary and Pan shots, Scotch bagpipers play and parade in Piazza Venezia. Crowds of Italian civilians throng paraders. MLS, Piazza as US and British soldiers in convoy move thru crowd. VS, throngs in Piazza listen to announcement by OWI proclaiming the beginning of the invasion of France. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/sj Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210 Signal Corps ADC 1433 111 SOURCE AFCF Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP 965' Composite (Partial) 1433-2 B-501 INTERROGATION OF FIGHTER PILOTS Somewhere in England 8 June 1944 (M-189) 401 SOUND VS, US fighter and bomber pilots and crews are questioned by other US officers in regard to their flights during the invasion of France. One officer states that he and his crew have flown two missions over France within the past twenty-four hours dropping supplies and towing gliders. A US Army Air Force colonel is interviewed and says that he and his crew dislike night flying because they have not had sufficient training in this type of mission. A Major Turner is interviewed and tells how impressed he was at the magnitude of the beachhead operations and the rapidity with which the deployment of men and supplies was carried out. The last officer to be interviewed states: "We've got a good start and we're on our way. We won't stop itil we get to Berlin. 11 Record Group 111 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY ERB/ek Accession III - NAV - 210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities