Footage of C-47 and L-5 Aircraft; Officers; Alto Air Base; Paratroopers; C-47 Aircraft; Convoy Part 3

Description

6 MSs of troop carrier command briefing; men have no shirts on; Italy. 2 LSs pans airfield, C-47s of TCC, lined up. LS L-5 landing. MS pilot gets out of L-5, and other officers greet him. LS officers examining map on tail of C-47. Closer shot same. Series of 4 MSs, troopers in shorts, rolling bed rolls. 2 LSs pan airfield and line of C-47s. 8 LSs single C-47s towing single gliders, takeoff. LS panning airfield and line of C-47s. MS pans across glider with man standing beside it. LS panning across C-47s and a glider. LS jeep driving fast across airfield. A. INT PBY, 10 shots of crew, over water. A. 3 high alt. shots over Monte Cristo. (out of focus) LS Group Hdqtrs 57th FG, at Corsica, France. Insert, 4 stars on staff car. MS Gen. Wilson & British Admiral walking by camera, get into staff car, at Corsica, France. (Alto Airbase) LS Gen. Wilson & party greet officers in front of French Headquarters. 2 MSs officers talking, see French flag. A. INT C-47, door, opened; as paratroopers prepare for jump. A. LS paratroopers jumping, over France; see several parachutes with equipment falling. A. 2 shots of C-47. A. shot of French countryside. Series of 5 shots, troop carrier command briefing. LSs of paratroopers marching , some with blacked faces, and some with red crosses on helmets. RV same, over bridge. CS paratrooper. 4 shots of group of paratroopers waiting to board plane. Paratroopers talking past camera, with equipment. 5 shots of paratrooper briefing at Italy. 2 shots of paratroopers getting into equipment. 4 shots of names and pictures on planes, Shoo, Shoo Baby, Feather Merchant, Sugar Blues, Paper Dolly, (C-47s). 2 LSs, 3 C-47s take off, together. MS down line of C-47s, one taxis out of line. MS (3 shots) officer examining personal effects of troopers, for security. 2 shots of 2 paratroopers demonstrating bazooka. 3 shots of one paratrooper putting makeup on another's face. 6 MSs of paratroopers getting ready for mission. 4 LSs paratroopers briefing (out of focus). 2 LSs paratroopers. Ext LS crowd of paratroopers standing around. MS control tower, Alto Airbase, men climbing into tower. CS same. MS crash truck, drivers waiting in readiness. 4 LSs grading equipment driving into vineyard at Ramatuelle, France. MS surveyor signalling with flag. 3 CSs grading equipment levelling ground, and tearing down grapevines. LS pans L-5 overhead, white clouds bg. 2 Ext LS pan across vineyard at Ramatuelle. Ext LS shooting back from convoy underway, see blinker signals and barrage balloons. (Invasion, Southern France.) 2 shots of convoy & sunset; see blinker signals. 4 LS ships at sea, one fires. Shooting back from front of convoy, see barrage balloons. 3 Ext LSs of convoy underway. 4 shots of ships in convoy, over & under-exposed. LS ship with barrage balloons, underway. 4 very spectacular shots of convoy, with barrage balloon, underway; sunset bg. see blinker lights. 3 shots of activity on boat in convoy underway (Southern France Invasion). 5 MSs of briefing on board ship on convoy underway. MS signal flags running up mast. Sunset and barrage balloons. LS soldiers marching past vineyard. (France) LS past surveying instrument, men with signal flags. LS grader driving past. LS surveyor at work. RV grader driving away. Same. LS surveyor, pans over to tractor. MS pans from tractor to surveyors in field. LS pans vineyard, showing houses & grading equipment in bg. CS EM eating from messkit in jeep.

Collection

Records of the Army Air Forces

Series

Motion Picture Films from the "Special Film Project" Program Series