US AIR FORCE FIRST ANNUAL GUNNERY MEET, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Part 3

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 7549-1 ADC 7549 SOURCE: AFCF (NME Newsreel Release 2-49) Car 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 846' ea Comp (Push-Pull) RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 US AIR FORCE FIRST ANNUAL GUNNERY MEET Las Vegas, Nevada = 25 May 1949 Air Force officers in observer's stand. Plane flying over. Cut to bomb exploding around target. FS, F = 4 7 swooping down towards camera at right angles. Pan to target, smoke from exploding bomb. F=82 coming down to target. CU, MLS, hands of Air Force non = com operating remote control switch. MLS, same. Target plane attáched to parachute floats down to field. CU, twin-engined plane flying from r to 1. MS, jet plane flying from r to 1 MCU, pilot seen thru cockpit enclosure. MS, pennant which is being towed by plane. Jet plane zooming down to earth. Cut to smoke around target. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/1o Signal Corps 111 ADC 7549-2 ADC 7549 SOURCE: AFCF (NME Newsreel Release 2=49) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 846 oa Comp (Push- Pull) RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 US AIR FORCE FIRST ANNUAL GUNNERY MEET (cont'd) Las Vegas, Nevada - 25 May 1949 (cont'd) Same with F = 82 plane. VS, fighter gaining altitude, banking, and then swooping down to bomb target. Cut to smoke around target. ML&MS, bomb is attached to underside of wing. FS, F-51s in flight; mountains in bg. Cut to four Air Force officers in stand watching test and making notes. VSs, fighter planes, both jet and regular type, flying low over field and dropping bombs on target. Cut-in unidentified major general talking with men in observation stand NOTE: Jets F80s and F-84s. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/10

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities