"PRIVATEER" (PB4-Y) STRIKE, OKINAWA, RYUKYU ISLANDS Part 3

Description

Signal Corps ADC 4776 111 SOURCE: AFCF (38-POA-3) ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 928' ea Silent 4776 "PRIVATEER" (PB4-Y) STRIKE Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands June 45 Seq: Ground crew loads 50 cal ammunition, 500 and 1, 000 lb bombs aboard PB4Y. LSs, PB4Y taxiing on runway for take-off. LSs from low flying plane, PB4Y flying over enemy waters off Korea. AVs from low flying plane, Japanese merchant ships are strafed near coast. MS photographed from glider, bomb dropping from wing of a plane. MS, engine of plane starting. CU, pilot at plane's controls. AVs from nose of plane, rice paddies, hills on Okinawa; shore dropping away and two small islands of the Ryukyu chain appearing. . MS, tail fin is attached to bomb after it is hoisted to undersection of plane. AVs oncoming sea shot from plane in flight. LS, Privateer flying low over water. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities