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Manufacture and deployment of Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bombers during World War II

Film beginning shows a line of Indian women carrying large wooden bowls on their heads as they walk past a line of Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bombers parked on an airfield ramp in India during World War 2. A B-29 bomber descends and lands on the airfield runway. Scene shifts to the Boeing factory at Wichita, Kansas, where most of the aircraft were manufactured during World War 2. (They were also made by Bell Aircraft Company in Atlanta (Marietta), Georgia, and by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Omaha, Nebraska.) In the Wichita plant, a large room filled with B-29s under construction is seen. A line of women uses hand power tools to finish aircraft parts. A large section of a B-29, including landing gear and tires, moves by overhead crane to be mated with another section in an assembly operation. Men manually push a landing gear with tires installed, along a floor. Workers walk along underneath an assembled B-29 as it is towed out of the factory. Tail view of a B-29 with engines running. View of man working on a B-29 tail rudder. Wing flaps being lowered in function check. Scene shifts, again, this time to China, where a line of B-29s is seen on a ramp at a secret base. A jeep drives under the left wing of a parked B-29, guarded by an armed Chinese sentry. Chinese laborers work with hand tools to make a ditch to drain water from the airfield ramp. Chinese workers unload and roll 55 gallon drums of gasoline for aircraft fueling. A Chinese name (Ding How!)painted on the fuselage of a B-29. Major General Claire Chennault shakes hands with some of a B-29s crew as they prepare to depart on a bombing mission. A Chinese soldier gives the crew a "thumbs up" sendoff. The B-29 takes off on the mission. a group of airmen sit atop a B-29 to watch the takeoffs. Camera focuses on another takeoff and then shows a B-29 aloft, glinting in sunlight and then cruising above clouds. Glimpse of B-29 flying over snow covered mountains (possibly in Japan).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056360
Allied Airborne Operation Market Garden during World War II

Opening scene shows some Allied gliders being towed over Holland during the joint American and British airborne Operation Market Garden. View from the air of wide areas flooded by the Germans to thwart Allied forces. Formations of American C-47 aircraft dropping paratroopers. Sky filled with paratroop chutes descending near Arnheim. Fairly closeup views of some troopers suspended under their parachutes. View from ground of troopers landing and running forward with weapons at the ready. Paratroopers landing near a haystack.Some make rough landings. Forward view from an American Waco CG-4A glider of the C-47 ahead, towing it. View from A C-47 of towed Waco glider behind it. View from the ground of gliders landing. One flips over, upside down. Troopers seen leaving a Waco glider and assembling on the ground. One glider noses over but falls back again. A tow plane is shot down and crashes in a huge explosion. Closeup of the burning wreckage. Different view of the crash site near some houses, with heavy plumes of dark smoke rising. Paratroopers advancing across a field. Local civilians gathered around an empty glider, examining it. Two paratroopers with a map asking two Dutch women for directions. The women each point in different directions. Paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division assembling. The Screaming Eagle logos visible on their shoulders.

Location: Arnhem Netherlands
Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056361
Airborne invasion maneuvers by Allied paratroopers in south of England as Eisenhower and Churchill watch, during World War II.

Airborne invasion maneuvers by Allied paratroopers in south of England during World War II. Soldiers listen to the plans by their commanders and board C-47B aircraft. Armed paratroopers aboard the aircraft smoke cigarettes and talk. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill observe the paratroopers jumping from large formation of C-47B planes. Paratroopers make landing on ground. Map of Hitler's Europe with Allied paratroopers landing on it.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056363
First daylight raid by United States Army Air Force B-17 and P-38J bombers on Berlin, Germany during World War II.

First daylight raid by United States Army Air Force bombers on Berlin, Germany during World War II. B-17 and P-38J bombers in flight and pilots inside cockpit. Guided bombs and missiles dropped on targets, explosion and smoke evolves from it. The crewmen of first air raid stand on and near a B-17 and pose for a photo. Lieutenant Colonel Mumford interviews the airmen after the raid.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056364
British infantry and tanks push German Army back and free civilians from Nazi occupation in Holland, during World War II.

Allied forces free the civilians from Nazi occupation in Holland, during World War II. British infantrymen of the 9th Army and tanks advance in Holland and defeated German forces retreat. British artillery and tanks fire at the Nazis during a battle. Allied soldiers rescue civilians from the rubble of houses destroyed during battle. British tanks and flamethrowers attack German Army units. British Army and tanks advance on rubbled streets of a town in Holland.

Location: Holland Netherlands
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056370
British plane flies over Burmese jungles and carries injured soldiers fighting on Burma front during World War II.

Allied planes fly over Burmese jungles and maintain the supply lines for their forces fighting in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. A British Short Sunderland Flying Boat aircraft flies over jungles in Burma and lands in a lake. Natives on a raft load supplies in the plane from the raft. Another raft arrives with injured soldiers fighting on Burmese front. The wounded taken for treatment in the airplane.

Location: Burma
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056371
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