| B-29S PREPARE TO FLY TO TOKYO New airstrip is built on Saipan so B-29s can launch attack on Tokyo. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7839 |
| Catalog #: | 12917 | |
| Clip Number: | 12917-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1425 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:00:12 - 01:01:57 | |
| Location: | Saipan, Mariana Islands | |
| Year Shot: | 1945 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Airfields & Helipads LOCATIONS/PACIFIC OCEAN: Oceania, Mariana Islands, Saipan TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Military TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Military, Bomber WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Aviation | |
| Description: | 'B-29s bomb Tokyo from new U.S. air base on Saipan'. New airstrip is built on Saipan so B-29s can launch attack on Tokyo. GV American army dump trucks driving along after capture of Saipan. MS load in back of truck being dumped. GV men tarring road. LS detonation of explosives. MS soldier depressing plunger for explosives, he runs. LS explosion. CU steamroller as they lay new airstrip. LS steamrollers rolling new airstrip. Various shots Major General H. H. Arnold, Chief of the American Army Air Corps, shaking hands with aircrew while standing in front of plane. MS as he points to bomb. MS/CU as one of the pilots writes message on bomb. It reads 'To the warlords of Japan we have not forgotten - The B-29s will remind you again and again and again'. Good MS as B-29 Super Fortress comes in to land and taxis. LS as people crowd around it. MS crews shaking hands. MS map of Pacific showing range from Saipan to Japan. MS as a plane takes off. MS of formation flying in air. Air to air of three B-29s flying. | |
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