| SUPER FORTS BOMB TOKYO American bombing raid on Tokyo. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7830 |
| Catalog #: | 5217 | |
| Clip Number: | 5217-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1400 F | |
| Timecode: | 01:44:32 - 01:45:59 | |
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Year Shot: | 1945 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ART: Drawing, Cartoon/Comic Strip LOCATIONS/ASIA: Japan, Tokyo MILITARY: Air Force, British (RAF) TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Military TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Military, Bomber WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Aviation | |
| Description: | 'B-29's Bomb Tokyo! Superforts in new blows at Japan!' Tokyo, Japan. Various shots of the B-29 aircraft at airfield. Great CUs of fuselage art painted on body of planes: 'Miss Behavin' (girl bending over), 'Dauntless Otty' (naked woman with hair blowing) and 'Special Delivery' (stork delivering a bomb). GV activity on airfield. MS of Soldiers writing messages on bombs, 'K.O. Tokyo' and 'Only The Beginning'. GVs of the airmen being briefed before the raid, officer at head of room points to maps. GV air men being briefed while squatting under plane. MS as military cameraman prepares his camera. CU fuselage art 'Waddy's Wagon' depicting cartoon caricatures in wagon shooting guns. MSs airmen preparing for raid. MS planes with propellers spinning. Several shots of the planes taking off. Animated sequence of map showing plane flying from Saipan to Tokyo, Japan. Brief air shot of planes flying in formation. | |
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