Officers point at a map as they brief a mission in a Quonset hut in Attu, Aleutian Island, during World War 2. Bomber aircraft flight crew members enter the class and take their seats. Officers brief them as they take down notes about Japanese targets.
United States B-25 bombers taxi and take off from Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Bombers in flight.
United States B-25 bombers taxi and take off from Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Bombers return after a short flight and land at the air base.
United States B-25 bomber at an airbase in Attu, Aleutian Island, Alaska. A jeep carrying flight crew pulls up near the bomber and men get down. Crew boards the plane.
An American airman wears his shoes and another airman writes a letter at Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Photographs of his family and friends on the wall as he continues to write.
Shown is tail section of a U.S. B-25 medium bomber, tail number 43-36154, assigned to the 11th Air Force, 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium). Twin tails and tail gunner position and guns visible. Snowy slopes seen in background. In the first scene that shows members of the flight crew standing in front of number two engine, they are believed to be: starting back left (moving to the right behind the propeller): Armorer/Tail gunner: Samuel Ward Craig (Shelocta, PA), Pilot: Willard L. Castledine (Three Rivers, MA), Radioman/Waist Gunner: Hugh W. Wilson (Paducah, KY), (coming around to the front of the propeller on the right moving left), Navigator/Bombardier: Kemmer W. Schricker (Davenport, IA), Co-Pilot: Kenneth H. Wait (Rickreal, OR), Engineer/Turret Gunner: Roman F. Ales (Luling, TX) The crew members pull engine #2 through, with the propeller, to assure against hydraulic lock, before starting. (World War II period).
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