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The bombing of Buka Airdrome on Bougainville Island by U.S. B-24 Liberators

Events relating to the bombing of Buka Airdrome on Bougainville Island on September 14th 1943. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers and fighters in flight at a high altitude over the airdrome. B-24s dropping bombs. Impacts visible. Japanese fighter aircraft receiving fire from American aircraft. (World War II period).

Location: Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea
Date: 1943, September 21
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030934
General Twining congratulates pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during WWII

Major General Nathan F. Twining, Commanding General, 13th Air Force. arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Army Air Forces, at Henderson Field, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. (The 339th had successfully accomplished a highest priority mission, shooting down Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's airplane on April 18, 1943.) Major General Twining, wearing a pith helmet, steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of 339th Squadron Pilots. He examines the nose wheel of a P-38, as a group of pilots stand around him. General Twining converses for a while with Major John W. Mitchell, Commander, 339th Fighter Squadron, who led the mission to down Admiral Yamamoto's airplane. Later, members of the 339th Squadron are photographed in conversations with one another.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036187
General Twining congratulates Pilots of U.S. Air Force who shot Japanese planes, in Guadalcanal Solomon Islands during WWII.

General Twining arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Air Force, in Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. General Nathan Twining steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of Air Force Pilots. He congratulates Captain John Mitchell and then speaks to Pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron. General Twining and other Pilots stand in front of a P-38 fighter airplane and talk. Pilots who shot three Zero Fighters and three bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) over Ki hill Airfield near Munda Point. The three Pilots, Captain Thomas Lamphier, Jr.,, Lieutenant Busby Frank Holmes and Lieutenant Alex E Barber pose for a photograph. (These three would later participate in U.S. Operation Vengeance, on April 16, 1943, in which they engage a group of Japanese aircraft, including one carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. He would perish when they down the Mitsubishi G4M bomber carrying him.) Pilots leaving in a jeep. A Pilot stands on the wing of P-38 fighter, besides its canopy.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036188
B-24 aircraft wreckage in snow covered mountains of Attu Island, Alaska.

B-24 wrecked in May 1943 while trying to drop supplies to stranded rangers of the Attu occupation, Alaska. Snow covered mountains. Wreckage of B-24 crash in mountains

Location: Attu Island Aleutian Islands
Date: 1943, May
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024662
Lieutenant Rex T. Barber, United States pilot who shot down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, describes his mission to shoot down Yamamoto in the Solomon Islands during WW2.

Title sequence “Air Force Now”. Image of Lieutenant Rex T. Barber, the United States Army Air Force pilot who shot down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during a military operation in the Solomon Islands in 1943, taken during World War II. Rex T. Barber is interviewed by Air Force Now. Lieutenant Rex T. Barber describes how he shot down a Japanese bomber that carried Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during WWII.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1985
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078971
U.S. warships fire and U.S. Navy SBD Dauntless dive bomb Makin Island.

U.S. ships at the Makin Island. Armor-piercing and landing crafts fire in the foreground. U.S. Navy SBD Dauntless dive bomb island. U.S. Navy SOC Seagulls in flight over island. USS BB and USS CA fire 5 inch guns. Landing Crafts and Island in background. Smoke column rises over island and planes pass over island. (World War II period).

Location: Makin Island Kiribati Islands
Date: 1943, November 20
Duration: 5 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024945
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