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U.S. shuttle-bombing of German positions and military installations under Operation Frantic during World War II.

Film title slate indicates "Operation Titanic" but it, in fact, depicts "Operation Frantic" with U.S. shuttle bombing operations over Germany from bases in Great Britain, Italy and Russia during World War II. United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight. Aerial view of bombers in flight with several aircraft flying in formation leaving behind contrails. View inside bomber aircraft with bombardier preparing to drop bombs. View of bomb bay door opening and closeup of hand near bomb drop switch. Bombs awawy view as bombs are dropped from American aircraft. German defenses are bombed along the invasion coast of France (just prior to D-Day) on June 2, 1944. Aerial views of B-24 and B-17 bombers also in flight bombing German military installations in German-occupied northwestern Europe. Aerial view of a target area. Smoke rising up from bombardment. Two different U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Liberator aircraft are seen falling from the sky toward crashes after being hit by German enemy fire. One of them has smoke trailing from it, and the other is in a free fall. Railroad and marshaling yards are also bombed over Debrecen, Hungary on June 2, 1944, with aircraft continuing on (shuttle bombing) rather than returning to base. United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator flying in formation on June 21, 1944. Aerial view as they bomb the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 engine aircraft factory near Basdorf, Germany. German factories are bombed. B-17 aircraft on the same date are seeing in formation and bomb railway stations, freight yards, and factory targets, along with the Nazi German Ministry of War, Ministry of Propaganda, and Gestapo headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Heavy flak bursts seen in the air near the aircraft. Dogfight scenes as several German airplanes are shot down. Machine gunners aboard U.S. bomber aircraft firing at German fighter aircraft and shooting down 43 of them, according to narrator. Aerial view of ball turret rotating below bomber and firing guns at German fighter aircraft. The B-17s and B-24s bombing the targets. Synthetic oil plants and refineries are bombed at Ruhland Germany, east of Leipzig. Planning for the operation was done on December 7, 1943. A document about the operation is typed. Animated map shows Nazi positions and method of shuttle-bombing, allowing American aircraft to bomb from Soviet bases, and allies broadly to bomb German targets from bases in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Soviet Ukraine.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077126
During an interview in the US, Lieutenant General Ira Eaker talks about problems and difficulties faced during World War II.

An interview of United States Air Force Lieutenant General Ira Eaker conducted by Dr. Maurer in the United States. General Eaker talks about his difficult situations and problems. He says that the problems were there in the war years. The unsuitability of equipment and minimum of training were the main problems. He talks about the problems faced during combat in the European Theater during World War II. Other problem was the controversy with the British about what kind of effort should be made.

Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077135
During an interview in the US, Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker talks about problems of expansion of the air corps prior to World War II.

A interview of United States Air Force Lieutenant General Ira Eaker conducted by Dr. Maurer in the United States. General Eaker talks about the development of the air corps. He says that if they had not undertaken bombing in World War II, millions of people would have died. They were also able to raze ammunition factories in Germany. The strategic bombing which they undertaken helped to win the war. He talks about the development of fighter aircraft, the difficulties faced in making funds available for aviation research and development.

Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077143
A USAAF P-38 Lightning aircraft takes off after being loaded with film magazines in Australia, during World War II

The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War II. A United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight. P-38 photo recon aircraft being loaded with film magazines and then buttoned up. The P-38 Lightning aircraft takes off on a mission to photograph Japanese positions in Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, during World War 2. The aircraft lands after returning from the mission.

Date: 1943, May 12
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077241
U.S. Navy pilots and officers study reconnaissance photographs and attack target areas in Korean War.

A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance during the Korean War. U.S. Navy pilots and and an officer in a briefing room. They study pictures taken by pilots. The officer briefs them. He marks target areas on the photographs. Men carrying bombs on a trailer of aircraft carrier flight deck. They are loaded in airplanes. An aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. Flags flying giving signals. The aircraft taking off from the carrier, including Douglas AD Skyraider aircraft and F9F Panther jet aircraft. The photograph pilot seated in the cockpit of F9F airplane. The aircraft takes off. F9F Panther airplanes fly in formation overhead. Aerial view of a target area in Korea. Smoke rises from bombardment of the area. The airplanes drop bombs. Heavy columns of smoke rise. The enemy fires anti aircraft guns. The bombs are dropped in the correct area by taking information from the photographs. Includes multiple gun camera views of actual strafing and bombing of targets by U.S. Navy aircraft during the Korean War. Also includes a small amount of dramatized on ground battle scenes.

Date: 1953
Duration: 5 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077247
C-141 aircraft takeoff, and in flight care of wounded American soldiers going home from Philippines during the Vietnam War

From a film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers during the Vietnam War. U.S. Air Force C-141 aircraft taxis along an airport and takes off as it carries soldiers wounded during Vietnam War to their homes. A grounds man signals and aircraft takes off. Doctors examine wounded soldiers aboard the aircraft. A nurse talks to a patient. She administers a injection to a soldier. A soldier smokes a cigarette as he lies in his bed. Soldiers eat food and sit in their beds.

Date: 1966
Duration: 4 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077448