A U.S. armored division in California, United States. The division is aligned on a California desert. Aerial view of the desert. Tanks, trucks and other vehicles moving in desert convoy. Soldiers aboard tanks. (World War II period).
The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War 2. A camera repair truck driving up to an airplane. Camera repairmen load magazines in a United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning photographic airplane (P-38E/F-4 Lightning serial 41-2156, "Limpin' Lizzie"). A pilot ( possibly 2LT Harold Moffat) arrives in a jeep and inspects the airplane. A gasoline truck fills the tank on the airplane. The pilot climbs on a wing and puts on a parachute and then gets in the cockpit. The pilot seated in the cockpit. He does a radio check with the communication tent. The P-38 warms up. The aircraft taxis.
The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War 2. A United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning photographic airplane returns from a mission. The airplane taxis on an airfield. A camera truck follows the airplane for exposed film. Camera repairmen take out magazines from the airplane. The pilot climbs out of the airplane. Men load exposed magazines in the truck on the way to a laboratory.
The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War II. Interior of a laboratory. A camera repairman brings exposed film to Drafting Chief Sergeant J. M. Brown. He turns it over to the Lab Section Chief Sergeant Robt Peterson for processing. The Drafting Chief marks the time of arrival on a lab operations chart. Two Sergeants letter negatives and plot the location of negatives on a large wall map. The wall map shows Rabaul.
The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War 2. Interior of a laboratory. A Lab Section Chief working in the laboratory. He takes aerial reconnaissance negatives into a dark room for development. He closes the door of the dark room. A printing room. A printer hands prints to a developer.
The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War II. A wall camera. A man at work. A United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning aircraft taxis on to the runway and does a 180 degree turn at the end where the pilot holds the brakes and revs his engines to high rpm. Next scene shows a P-38 on final approach and landing on the runway.
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