FLYING FORTRESS: 1ST YEAR OVER EUROPE Part 1

Description

Summary: Thie part is in sound: Sequence: interiors, Gen Ira C Eaker, CG of the U S 8th Air Force seated with Gen Frank Hunter, USAF, and Gen Wilhelm Anderson of Bomber Command giving a speech dealing with our suceessful air raids over Fortress Europe. (Good CU of Eaker). The following is silent: CU, landing gear being let down as plane comes in. MS, waist gunner in fortress firing machine gun. MS, soldier peeling potatoes. Squadron commander giving talk to men before they go out on mission. MS, of plane as gunner exits from ventral turret. Exterior and interiors of pilot at controls of B-17 on ground. Interior, B-17 gunner entering turret on top of fuselage. View of pilot at controls; pan down to feet on foot controls. MS, officer looking at damage on plane wing in hangar. CUs, of individual pilots and ground crewmen. Man painting bombs on fuselage, signifying the amount of missions. Interiors of plane, man at radio. A captain receives DSC while enlisted men stand in bg. EM admiring the captain'S medal. NOTE: Last 1OO feet is a recap of scenes throughout this reel.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities