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P-47s flying low over an airfield and over water in Corsica.

A squadron of P-47s flying in formation low over an airfield in Corsica. Their moving shadows clearly visible on the ground. Flight of four P-47s, illuminated by sunlight , as they fly over dark smooth, unseen, water. View from P-47 as it circles and then strafes a bridge over a river.

Location: Corsica France Alto Air Base

Date: 1944

Duration: 1 min 2 sec

Sound: No

Color: Color

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Camera positions in P-47 aircraft at Alto Air Base.

Pilot sits in cockpit of P-47 aircraft. Pilot's hand at the instrument panel, turning lens of GSAP (Gun Sight Aiming Point). Four positions of camera on P-47 shown. Camera in wheel well, in wing, behind pilot and under wing. Gun Shot Aiming Point in wing.

Location: Corsica France Alto Air Base

Date: 1944

Duration: 1 min 22 sec

Sound: No

Color: Color

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Views of destruction and privation in Italy. Views of Corsica and Alta Air Base, there, during World War II.

Camera positions in aircraft P-47. Camera installed behind pilot, under the wing, in the wing, and the wheel well. Pilot's hand at instrument panel. Actor James Stewart reads a passage from a book about the film'Thunderbolt' depicting US Air Forces operations flying P-47 aircraft, during World War II. A ship in a harbor. Ruined buildings at Italian port town. Italian civilians pass on street. Ruined buildings in town. Horse-drawn carts pass along road. Men and women in rubble. Face of an old lady. Refugees on Kimble Bridge. Children in rubble-strewn street. Skeleton in rubble. Clouds settled over mountains. A river and waterfall as seen from aircraft. Aerials of town on banks of river. Ruins of Italian towns. Wrecked train. Map highlights Corsica, Mediterranean Sea and Sicily. Island of Corsica. A family with animals being watered at a fountain. Several people posing outside the "Bar Napoleon."Corsican people on street. A graveyard containing German war dead. Man climbs control tower at Alto Air Base in Corsica. Crew at work on airfield. Unfuzed bombs are casually rolled off a moving trailer onto the ground. Man refuels P-47. A soldier sleeps in tent. Men in tents and outside get ready for mission in morning. Airman looks into mirror. Airmen wear uniform and comb hair. Men wash faces and shave. Men brush teeth. Also shows morning activities of a Captain. Aerials of Alto Air Base. Men on look out tower. A Lieutenant smokes pipe. Airmen enter tent and get instructions from officer. Men around chart.

Location: Corsica France Alto Air Base

Date: 1944

Duration: 9 min 45 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Color

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft attack enemy targets under Operation Strangle.

Map of Italy shows narrowest part of peninsula where US and British armies are stationed. Map highlights Anzio and Cassino. A building on top of mountain. On island of Corsica, Lt Gen Ira C Eaker, commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Forces, Maj Gen John K Cannon, leader of the Twelfth Air Force, and Brig Gen Gordon Seville of the Twelfth Tactical Air Command, plan Operation Strangle. By animation the operation is explained where pilots of Fifty-Seventh Fighter Group is required to bomb behind enemy lines and cut off the transport of enemy supplies using the P-47 Thunderbolt. Shows destroyed bridges. P-47s taxi at airfield. P-47s parked in flight line. Crew chiefs in canopy of the plane and inspect other sections of plane. Pilots board planes. Planes take off from runway. P-47s in flight over sea, mountains and a castle. P-47s in flight behind squadron leader. P-47s in flight over clouds. P-47s peel off above the bridge. An incendiary bomb is dropped on a bridge. More bridges are bombed. Explosions on bridges. P-47 in flight over fields and railroad tracks. One train spotted. P-47 strafing moving trains. Trains explode. P-47 in flight over coastline and pilot in cockpit. P-47 strafing installations and ground targets.

Location: Corsica France Alto Air Base

Date: 1944

Duration: 17 min 23 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Color

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Recreational activities of US airmen at Alto Air Base, Corsica.

Aircraft P-47s take off from Alto Air Base. Jeep loaded with men pulls away. Morning activities of airmen before mission. Men bath and get ready. A man gets hair cut. Sign reads 'Jerry's Clip Joint'. Man reads. Men on trailer truck. Men sing and dance. Men build clubhouses. A canal. Men on raft in water. Men go into sea at beach. Men sail in small boats. Men drink and fall in water. Men play outside a building. Men lie down at beach. A man sleeps. Man feeds puppies.

Location: Corsica France Alto Air Base

Date: 1944

Duration: 5 min 15 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Color

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English