- Title: V-2379
- Summary: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: STORY OF THE FLYING FORTRESS AIRCRAFT FOCUSING ON THE FIRST HIGH-ALTITUDE DAYLIGHT BOMBING OF GERMANY BY B-17s.
- Description:00:00:27 - SQUADRON OF BOMBERS FLYING IN SKY OVER CLOUDS 00:00:44 - MONTAGE GROUND CREWMEN CLEANING, MAINTAINING B-17 AS IT SITS ON TARMAC. CREWMEN WORKING ON ENGINE 00:00:45 - TWO ARMED GIS ACCOMPANY PLANE'S NAVIGATOR CARRYING SECRET "NORTHERN" BOMBSIGHT TO PLANE IN DUFFLE BAG. 00:00:47 - PAN GI SITTING ON HUGE BOMB AS HE & BOMBS ARE TOWED ON BOMB CARRIAGE BY JEEP. 00:00:52 - SIDE PANEL OPENED BY WAIST GUNNER AS HE STICKS MACHINE GUN INTO POSITION. 00:00:57 - CU GIS PREPARE TO REMOVE HUGE BOMB FROM CARRIAGE TO PLACE INTO PLANE'S BOMB BAY. 00:01:02 - CU BOMB BAY ON PLANE OPENS AUTOMATICALLY IN FRGD. GIS RIDING BOMB CARRIAGE PASSING IN BKGD. 00:01:37 - WAIST GUNNERS INSIDE PLANE LOAD 50 CALIBER GUN BELTS ONTO GUN. 00:01:42 - PILOT ON BIKE BENDS DOWN AS HE RIDES UNDER WING PASSING CREWMAN ON PIPE SCAFFOLD WORKING ON ENGINE. 00:01:47 - TWO MEN WORKING ON TOP GUN TURRET. 00:01:50 - CREWMAN HAS TO BEND LOW TO WORK ON BOTTOM GUN TURRET. 00:01:53 - TWO CREWMEN EXAMINE BACK-TO-BACK WAIST GUNS WITH AMMO BELTS ATTACHED. 00:01:58 - GROUND CREWMEN ROLL BOMBS UNDER PLANE'S BOMB BAY. OTHERS SCREW DETONATORS TO TIP OF BOMB. 00:02:08 - AIRMEN ARRIVE AT OPERATIONS HUT FROM ALL DIRECTIONS ON FOOT& ON BIKES. 00:02:13 - CROWD OF AIRMEN SEATED IN BRIEFING ROOM WITH LARGE MAP UP FRONT. POV REAR OF ROOM. 00:02:18 - COMMANDING OFFICER ASKS FOR ATTENTION & BEGINS BRIEFING. 00:02:23 - VARIOUS SHOTS AIRMEN LISTENING ATTENTIVELY. 00:02:44 - CU AIRMAN CHEWING GUM. 00:02:59 - CU PILOT SIPS COFFEE 00:03:36 - CU PILOT SMOKES PIPE AS HE LISTENS TO BRIEFING 00:03:41 - COMMANDING OFFICER CONTINUES BRIEFING. CU SERIOUS-FACED AIRMEN AS THEY LISTEN. 00:05:14 - AIRMEN SYNCHRONIZE THEIR WATCHES, STAND & LEAVE. 00:05:20 - ENTIRE CREW OF B-17 RIDE IN SMALL JEEP ON WAY TO PLANE WHERE GROUND CREW IS WAITING. 00:05:34 - PILOT BRIEFS CREW OUTSIDE PLANE 00:05:44 - MEN PILE INTO PLANE FROM VARIOUS HATCHES. 00:06:09 - PAN PLANE TO NAME "YANKEE DOODLE" WRITTEN ON NOSE SECTION. 00:06:14 - FIRST B-17 TAXIS. NAME OF PLANE ("STINKY") AS IT SPINS AROUND 00:06:29 - MEMBERS OF GROUND CREW WAVE TO PLANE. 00:06:34 - PILOT WAVES FROM WINDOW, CLOSES IT. 00:06:44 - MONTAGE FLYING FORTRESSES TAKING OFF AT PRECISE INTERVALS. GROUND CREWS ON BIKES WAVE THEM OFF THEN RIDE OFF 00:07:29 - FLYING FORTRESS IN LIGHT, IN FORMATION, ABOVE CLOUDS. 00:08:10 - TWO WAIST GUNNERS AT THEIR GUNS INSIDE PLANE. 00:08:25 - GROUPS OF B-17 IN CLOSE FORMATION FLYING OVER CLOUDS APPROACH TARGET. 00:08:29 - BOMBARDIER AT HIS POST. AERIAL VIEW OF GROUND. PUFFS OF SMOKE FROM FLAK AS SEEN BY BOMBARDIER. FILM SHAKES AS MACHINE GUNS OPEN UP. TRACERS SEEN FLYING THROUGH AIR. 00:08:31 - AERIAL VIEW OF TARGET AREA. 00:08:36 - MONTAGE BOMBS DROPPING FROM BOMBBAY DOORS FALLING TO TARGET BELOW. 00:08:41 - AERIAL VIEW BOMBS EXPLODING ON GROUND BELOW. 00:08:51 - GROUPS OF THREE B-17s IN TIGHT FORMATION FOR RUN HOME. 00:09:03 - OFFICERS IN CONTROL TOWER. ONE PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS FOR RETURNING PLANES. 00:09:08 - MONTAGE B-17s COMING IN FOR LANDING. 00:09:40 - MONTAGE B-17s IN FLIGHT AS NARRATOR TELLS OF TARGETS EACH GROUP ATTACKED. DESCRIBES EACH MISSION 00:09:59 - AERIAL SHOTS OF SQUADRONS OVER CLOUDS. VO: "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1943
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-2379