- Title: V-2377
- Summary: THUNDERBOLT: P-47 "THUNDERBOLT" FIGHTER PLANE ON MISSION AMERICAN AIRMEN AT CORSICA BASE CREATIVELY ADJUST TO ENVIRONMENT BETWEEN MISSIONS. P-47s ATTACK SUPPLY LINES 200 MILES BEHIND ENEMY LINES TO BREAK STALEMATE AT "GUSTAV LINE". with Jimmy Stewart.
- Description:00:29:06 - PILOT SITTING IN COCKPIT OF THUNDERBOLT. 00:29:11 - ZOOM IN TO TWO AUTOMATIC CAMERAS ATTACHED TO BACK OF COCKPIT BEHIND PILOT 00:29:21 - ZOOM IN CAMERAS UNDER THE WING, IN WHEEL WELL, IN INSTRUMENT PANEL (PHOTOGRAPHING THE PILOT HIMSELF). 00:29:36 - ZOOM AWAY AS PILOT ADJUSTS CAMERA. 00:29:41 - ACTOR JAMES STEWART READS LETTER FROM COMMANDING GENERAL KARL SPAAK OF UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES WHO ASKS STEWART TO TELL AUDIENCE ABOUT THIS PICTURE. 00:30:21 - PAN VARIOUS SCENIC SHOTS ITALIAN VILLAGE ALONG SEASIDE WITH HOMES DAMAGED & DESTROYED BY BOMBS. 00:30:31 - ITALIAN MEN WITH DONKEYS ON BOMBED-OUT ROAD. 00:30:41 - MULE PULLING CART TROTS BY AS WOMAN PUTS TUB OFCLOTHING ON HER HEAD 00:30:51 - OTHER VILLAGERS AND CHILDREN PASS BY RUBBLE. 00:30:56 - CU TOOTHLESS OLD WOMAN 00:31:05 - RUBBLE OF VILLAGE CHURCH & OTHER VILLAGE BUILDINGS. 00:31:10 - REFUGEES SIT ALONG SIDE OF ROAD 00:31:13 - LITTLE KIDS SLOWLY APPROACH BODY OF DEAD MAN 00:31:18 - GRAPHIC VIEW DECAYING DEAD MAN WITH MOUTH WIDE OPEN. 00:31:23 - KIDS QUICKLY WALK BY. 00:31:26 - AERIAL VIEW MOUNTAINOUS, REMOTE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE. 00:31:54 - PAN PICTURESQUE WATERFALL ON RUGGED NOUNTAINS. 00:32:09 - AERIAL VIEW OF PARTS OF COUNTRY NEVER TOUCHED BY AIR WAR. 00:32:19 - PAN SMALL TOWNS ALONG SEA. 00:32:29 - AERIAL VIEWS OF CITIES AND TOWNS COMPLETELY DESTROYED 00:32:39 - RAILROAD YARDS WITH TRAINS SCATTERED ABOUT, BUILDINGS DESTROYED. 00:32:45 - AERIAL VIEW RAILROAD CROSSING WITH DESTROYED TRAIN. 00:32:50 - PAN DESTROYED RAILROADS AS SEEN FROM WING CAMERAS 00:32:59 - MAP OF ITALY SHOWING ISLES OF SICILY, CORSICA & SARDINIA IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA. ZOOM IN CORSICA. 00:33:04 - AERIAL PAN RUGGED MOUNTAINOUS CORSICA. 00:33:14 - NATIVE CORSICAN FAMILY TENDING TO DONKEYS. 00:33:19 - SIGN ON BUILDING: "BAR NAPOLEON". TRUCK TRAFFIC PASSES 00:33:24 - WOMAN CARRYING BIG LOAD OF BRANCHES ON HEAD. 00:33:29 - PAN CORSICA VILLAGE, LANDSCAPE. 00:33:39 - PAN CROSS GRAVE MARKERS OF GERMAN SOLDIERS SCATTERED ON IN SHADOW OF ALLIED AERODROME 00:33:44 - PAN TO FLIGHT TOWER IN DISTANCE. GI CLIMBS LADDER TO TOWER. 00:33:54 - GROUND CREWMAN TURNS PROPELLER OF P-47 BY HAND. 00:33:59 - GI ON BOMB-CARRYING VEHICLE DROPS OFF BOMBS ONTO GROUND AS VEHICLE MOVES ALONG. 00:34:09 - GROUND CREWMAN CLIMBS INTO COCKPIT OF P-47 TO CHECK IT OUT BEFORE MISSION. 00:34:14 - GI TURNS PROPLLER TO LOOSEN IT. 00:34:19 - PILOT SLEEPS ON COT IN TENT WITH MOSQUITO NETTTING 00:34:27 - SHIRTLESS PILOT SITS ON END OF COT. PUTS ON SOCKS. 00:34:32 - GROUP OF PILOTS GETTING WASHED & SHAVED OUTSIDE TENT. 00:34:42 - CU LOOKING IN HAND MIRROR AS HE CHECKS FACE FOR PIMPLES. 00:34:47 - AIRMAN WEARING BATHROBE FILLS HELMET WITH WATER TO WASH HIMSELF. 00:34:52 - PUTS ON PANTS OUTSIDE TENT. 00:34:57 - CU MAN WASHING HIS FACE WITH WATER IN HELMET. 00:35:02 - SHIRTLESS GI COMBS HIS HAIR ON SMALL MIRROR ATTACHED TO POST. 00:35:07 - ANOTHER SHAVES IN FRONT OF SAME MIRROR. 00:35:10 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS SHIRTLRESS AIRMEN BRUSHING TEETH 00:35:34 - SHIRTLESS MAJOR "SPANKY" MANDA, SQUADRON OPERATIONS OFFICER, BRUSHES HIS TEETH OUTSIDE TENT. 00:35:44 - SHIRTLESS FLIGHT LEADER, CAPTAIN HOWARD HICKCOCK, COMBS HAIR IN FRONT OF MIRROR, CIGARETTE DANGLING FROM MOUTH 00:36:01 - YOUNG SQUADRON LEADER GIL REILLY OPENS BACK DOOR OF BATTALION GENERAL'S TRAILER AS HE LIES IN UPPER BUNK. 00:36:11 - STICKS HIS HEAD OUT OF DOOR. PULLS STRING WHICH ACTIVATES HOMEMADE SHOWER. STICKS HIS HEAD UNDER IT WHILE STILL LYING IN BUNK. 00:36:29 - AERIAL ZOOM IN AIR BASE TO LONG RUNWAY. 00:36:44 - ZOOM IN FLIGHT TOWER WITH TWO AIRMEN. 00:37:02 - U.S. & FRENCH FLAGS FLY SIDE BY SIDE ON BASE. 00:37:07 - CU GROUP COMMANDER LT COL. ARCHIE J. KNIGHT WITH PIPE IN MOUTH. 00:37:12 - YOUNG PILOTS WALK ONTO BRIEFING TENT & TAKE SEATS INSIDE AS OFFICER AT LARGE MAP ON WALL OF TENT DESCRIBES TARGET. 00:37:29 - SERIOUS FACES ON PILOTS AS THEY LISTEN TO BRIEFING, SMOKE CIGARETTES. 00:38:18 - ZOOM IN ANIMATED MAP MAP OF BOOT OF ITALY SEPARATED BY BLACKE (GERMAN) & WHITE (ALLIED) AREAS. ALLIEDS HAVE BEEN STOPPED COLD AT "GUSTAV LINE" 00:38:29 - MAP SHOWS ANZIO BEACHHEAD & CASSINO 00:38:48 - AERIAL VIEW CASSINO AFTER BOMBING ON MARCH 15TH. 00:38:59 - AERIAL PAN ABBEY ON MOUNT CASSINO 00:39:13 - LT GENERAL ACKER ARRIVES BY PLANE. 00:39:23 - MAJOR GENERAL K. TANNER, COMMANDING 12TH AIR FORCE, GETTING INTO COCKPIT OF PLANE 00:39:28 - BRIGADIER GENERAL SERVILLE, 12 TACTICAL COMMAND, SEATED ON GROUND TALKING TO AIRMEN 00:39:34 - ANIMATED MAP SHOWS DIFFERENT TACTIC WHICH BY PASSES GUSTAV LINE & BOMBS ALL RAILROADS, BRIDGES, ROADS LEADING TO CASSINO. OPERATION "STRANGLE". ANIMATION SHOWS ROPE STRANGLING UPPER HALF OF OF ITALIAN BOOT CUTTING OFF SUPPLIES 00:40:31 - AERIAL SHOTS BOMBED OUT BRIDGES, HUGE BOMB CRATERS 00:40:36 - PILOT STANDS UP IN COCKPIT OF THUNFDERBOLT AS IT TAXIS 00:40:46 - P-47s TAXIING ON RUNWAYS TOWARDS CAMERA 00:40:56 - CU PROP OF P-47 IN FRGD AS OTHER P-47s LINE UP ALONGSIDE. PROP SLOWLY STOPS TURNING. 00:41:06 - VARIOUS SHOTS GROUND CREWMEN POLISHING P-47 WINDOWS INSIDE & OUT 00:41:16 - GROUNDCREWMEN LOOK OVER PLANES FOR BULLET HOLES OR OTHER DAMAGE. 00:41:26 - CU CREWMAN CAREFULLY LOOKS OVER EVERY INCH OF PROPELLER. 00:41:54 - PILOT CARRIES PARACHUTE TO PLANE. CLIMBS INTO COCKPIT WITH HELP OF CREW CHIEF. 00:42:19 - CREWMAN HELPS BILL WYMAN ONTO PLANE WITH HIS GEAR. 00:42:29 - WHEEL PAINTED ON RUDDER OF PLANE OF MAJOR RICHARD HUNTIGER. HE CLIMBS INTO COCKPIT 00:42:39 - VARIOUS VIEWS CREW CHIEFS HELPING PILOTS ADJUST GEAR IN COCKPITS. CHATTING WITH THEM ABOUT MISSION 00:43:56 - CU PILOT WITH SERIOUS LOOK ON FACE 00:44:01 - CU VARIOUS VIEWS PROPS STARTING UP. 00:44:11 - CU PILOT HANDS STUBBY REMNANTS OF CIGAR TO CREW CHIEF. SAYS "HERE, HOLD THIS UNTIL I GET BACK". CREW CHIEF LOOKS AT CIGAR WITH PUZZLED LOOK ON FACE. 00:44:24 - SQUADRON OF P-47 THUNDERBOLTS ALL LINE UP, PROPS TURNING, READY TO TAKE OFF. 00:44:34 - VARIOUS VIEWS GUNS, BOMBS, CAMERAS ON PLANES. 00:44:45 - P-47s TAXIING ONTO RUNWAYS, TAKING OFF IN PAIRS. 00:44:59 - CU WIRE MESH RUNWAY 00:45:04 - POV PILOT SPEEDING FOR TAKE OFF. 00:45:09 - MONTAGE P-47s TAKING OFF IN PAIRS. 00:45:19 - CU SPEEDING RUNWAY. 00:45:29 - CU SPEEDING PLANE LANDING GEAR FOLDS ON TAKE-OFF. 00:46:54 - PLANS FLY TOWARDS CAMERA, OVER HORSE STANDING IN FIELD. 00:47:04 - FOUR P-47s CAST SHADOW ON GROUND AS THEY SPEED BY 00:47:09 - SQUADRON IN FLIGHT, FARM LAND BELOW. 00:47:19 - ABOVE VIEW SQUADRON FLYING OVER COASTS OF CORSICA & OUT TO SEA. 00:47:38 - ABOVE VIEW FOUR P-47s FLYING TOWARDS CAMERA IN CLOSE FORMATION, WING TIP TO WING TIP, MEDITERRANEAN SEA BELOW. 00:47:54 - AERIAL VIEW CASTLE ON HILL, MOUNTAIN RANGE 00:48:04 - VARIOUS VIEWS GROUPS OF P-47s FLYING SIDE BY SIDE 00:49:04 - AERIAL VIEW LANDSCAPE BELOW POV P-47s AS THEY LOOK FOR TARGETS 00:49:19 - CU BOMB HANGING FROM P-47 WING. 00:49:29 - CU NAME ON FUSELAGE "HUN HUNTER XIV". 00:50:07 - AERIAL VIEW BRIDGE TO BE BOMBED. 00:50:12 - WING COMMANDER'S P-47 PEELS OFF FOR ATTACK AS OTHERS FOLLOW AT 2 SECOND INTERVALS. DIVING TOWARDS TARGET. 00:50:44 - AERIAL VIEWS BOMBS EXPLODING, MISSING. DIRECT HIT ON BRIDGE. THICK HUGE CLOUD OF SMOKE RISES FROM TARGET. 00:51:34 - CU PILOT WITH OXYGEN MASK RECOVERING FROM EFFECT OF DIVE. 00:51:44 - VIEWS OF BOMBS MISSING & HITTING BRIDGE. 00:52:49 - VARIOUS VIEWS HERDS OF SHEEP & HORSES RUNNING ON FIELDS AS DIVE BOMBERS FRIGHTEN THEM WHILE FLYING LOW 00:52:59 - AERIAL VIEW FAST MOVING RAILROAD TRACKS 00:53:20 - VARIOUS VIEWS TRAINS BEING STRAFFED WITH MACHINE GUN FIRE 00:53:44 - TRAIN CAR EXPLODES VIOLENTLY. 00:54:54 - VARIOUS SHOTS STRAFFINGS OF LIGHTHOUSE, RADIO STATION & OTHER SMALL BUILDINGS ON FARMLANDS. 00:55:44 - SHIRTLESS CREWMEN WEARING SHORTS WORKING ON P-47. REMOVE COWLING FROM ENGINE. 00:55:54 - P-47s TAKING OFF FOR MORE MISSIONS. 00:56:05 - PILOTS PILE ONTO ARMY TRUCK FOR TRIP INTO TOWN BETWEEN MISSIONS. 00:56:15 - GROUP OF GIS PLAYING "CRAPS". 00:56:25 - GI TAKING SHOWER OUTDOORS. CU SCRUBBING HIMSELF. 00:56:31 - AIRMEN WASHING THEIR CLOTHES AT SMALL DOCK IN STREAM. 00:56:44 - SOLDIERS HANGING CLOTHES ON HUGE CLOTHES LINES TO DRY. 00:56:54 - PAN MAKE-SHIFT WASHING MACHINE. SHIRTLESS AIRMAN STICKS SHIRT IN MAKESHIFT WASHING MACHINE. 00:57:01 - GI BARBER CUTS HAIR ON AIRMAN IN OUTDOOR BARBER SHOP. SIGN, "JOE'S CLIP JOINT". GI SITS ON GROUND READING PAPERS AS HE WAITS HIS TURN 00:57:15 - DOZENS OF AIRMEN ON HUGE FLATBED TRUCK HITCHING RIDE. 00:57:20 - AIRMAN PLAYS WITH TWO YO-YOS AT ONE TIME AS BUDDIES WATCH. 00:57:25 - SHIRTLESS GI WITH CIGAR DANGLING MOVES HIS HEAD TRYING TO WATCH YO-YOS 00:57:37 - VARIOUS VIEWS AIRMEN WITH HAMMERS BUILDING LIVING QUARTERS, BEACH CLUB AT RIVER'S EDGE 00:57:57 - DAMING UP RIVER TO MAKE SWIMMING HOLE 00:58:07 - AIRMAN JUMPS INTO WATER OFF SPEEDBOAT. PULLED ALONG ON ROPE. 00:58:17 - AIRMEN IN SWIM TRUNKS FROLIC AROUND ON WOODEN RAFT. 00:58:27 - GIS RUN OUT FROM BEACH INTO WAVES WITH RUBBER RAFTS. 00:58:43 - GIS PLACE TWO PUPPIES IN WATER & WATCH THEM SWIM TO SHORE. 00:58:53 - GI RIDES IN WING TANK MADE INTO BOAT. PULLED ALONG BY SPEEDBOAT. 00:59:03 - THREE AIRMEN SAIL IN MAKE-SHIFT CATAMARAN MADE FROM WING, OLD BANGED UP CAR, PLANE PARTS, PARACHUTE CLOTH FOR SAILS 00:59:13 - MEN RIDE WAVES TO SHORE ON RUBBER RAFTS. 00:59:21 - DRUNKEN AIRMEN HORSE AROUND IN WATER WITH BEER BOTTLES 00:59:31 - SHIRTLESS MEN PLAY CATCH WITH BASEBALL OUTSIDE BEACH HOUSE 00:59:41 - CU CHECKER GAME. TWO AIRMEN PLAYING OUTSIDE TENT. 00:59:51 - TWO SUNBATHING ON BEACH NEAR WATER'S EDGE. 01:00:01 - GI WRITING LETTER HOME. ANOTHER SEATED IN BEACH CHAIR READING MAGAZINE. SOLDIERS RELAXING 01:00:11 - MAN ASLEEP ALONGSIDE HIS DOG. 01:00:16 - MAN IN RUBBER RAFT WITH HIS DOG. 01:00:21 - AIRMAN FEEDING PUIPPIES. CU PUPPIES EATING FROM DISH ON GROUND. 01:00:48 - AIRMAN READING WITH LARGE BLACK MACAW BIRD PERCHED ON HIS SHOULDER. 01:00:59 - VARIOUS SHOTS 66 SQUADRON P-47s IN FLIGHT HEADING OUT PASSING 65 SQUADRON HEADING HOME. 01:01:09 - AERIAL THREE P-47 FLYING LOW OVER OCEAN & LAND 01:01:19 - AERIAL SQUADRON COMING IN OVER FIELD. 01:01:29 - CU PLANE COMING IN FOR LANDING 01:01:44 - VARIOUS VIEWS PLANES COMING IN FOR LANDING. 01:02:09 - CU LANDING GEAR UNFOLDING FOR LANDING. 01:02:29 - SQUADRON PEELING SKYWARD AS THE MAKE APPROACH FOR LANDING. 01:02:54 - GROUND CREWMAN HIDES HIS FACE WITH ARMS AS PLANE MAKES ROUGH BOUNCING LANDING. 01:03:32 - YOUNG COLONEL GETS OUT OF PLANE. EXAMINES FLAK HOLES 01:03:44 - PILOTS RELAX WITH COFFEE & DOUGHNUTS AFTER INTERROGATION. 01:04:08 - ANIMATED MAP OF ITALY SHOWS EVERY RALLINE IN ITALY BLOCKED. LINE ACROSS UPPER PART OF COUNTRY DRAWN INDICATING NO RAIL LINE COULD MOVE SOUTH OF IT. 01:04:29 - AERIAL SHOTS SHOW STRAFFINGS & BOMBINGS OF MILITARY TRAFFIC ROADS. VARIETY OF TRAFFIC BEING STRAFED ON ITALIAN ROADS. 01:04:59 - SECONDARY EXPLOSIONS AS AMMUNITION IS HIT. 01:05:14 - CU PILOT IN COCKPIT. 01:05:44 - VARIOUS VIEWS P-47 SQUADRONS IN FLIGHT. 01:06:12 - AIRMEN WATCH HELPLESSLY AS P-47 BURNS AFTER CRASH. HEAVY FLAMES, SMOKE RISING. 01:06:29 - GRAPHIC VIEW BODY BEING DRAGGED OUT OF PLANE WITH POLE. FOUR MEDICS CARRY REMAINS COVERED WITH BLANKET ON STRETCHER. 01:07:29 - ANIMATED MAP SHOWS FIFTH U.S. ARMY & 8TH BRITISH ARMY ON ATTACK AT CASSINO & ANZIO. QUICKLY MOVING NORTH TO ROME. 01:07:36 - SIGN WITH SWASTIKA CROSSED OUT & ITALIAN WORDS: "A. MORTE, MUSSOLINI" (DEATH TO MUSSOLINI). 01:07:46 - VARIOUS VIEWS CROWDS WELCOME CARAVAN OF GIS IN ROME. ITALIAN MEN RIDE TWO GIS AND BLONDE GIRL IN HORSE DRIVEN CARRIAGE. ARMORED UNITS DRIVE IN WITH GI IN JEEP WEARING TOP HAT. 01:08:08 - TANK UNITS MOVING NORTH PASS DESTROYED ENEMY VEHICLES ALONG ROAD. VARIOUS VIEWS TOTALLY DESTROYED RAILROAD CARS, TRACKS. 01:08:12 - MONTAGE DESTROYED BRIDGES. GRAPHIC VIEWS DEAD GERMAN SOLDIERS 01:09:48 - FACE SHOTS AIRMEN DRINKING TOAST WITH BEER MUGS. 01:09:52 - AMERICAN AIRMEN FACING CAMERA SING AS ONE PLAYS ACCORDIAN. "LITTLE BROWN JUG"
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1946
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-2377