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WWII - INCENDIARY BOMBS

 

220717          18:42:04 - 18:54:19            1940   b/w     Sd        England            London Fire Raids - Blitz. 29-30Dec/40
Aftermath of air-raid on London - Fires burning from incendiary bombs. 
Fire fighting - firemen with hoses. Interior fire service control room - women on telephones - plotting on map.
18:44:54 Fires raging - Parish Church of St Lawrence Jewry on fire - St Brides Church in Fleet street on fire. Fireboats pump water from Thames.  Firemen struggling with hoses across mudflats.  Firemen hosing shops and warehouses.  Classic shot of cross silhouetted against fires. Filmed from the roof of St Pauls. Top shot buildings blazing.  Fires in Southwark - building collapses.  Ryvita Company building in flames.  Old Bailey.
18:51:11  Next morning - aftermath - debris - bomb damage.  The Guildhall - interiors showing damage - Church of St Lawrence interiors showing damage. Whitecross street - burnt out abandoned vehicles blocking street.
18:53:25 Funeral of one of the firemen who died.  Injured fire fighters laughing. Old Bailey
Clearance may be necessary from London Fire service.

 

            220287          09:19:10 - 09:27:28            1941   B/W    sd         Russia [Unid. Soviet Newsreel]
Twin engine plane taking off; biplane; captured German POWs. Red Army disembarks from pontoons.  Tanks, armoured vehicles, anti-aircraft guns.  German plane explodes.  German tanks advance. Battle.  Red Army infantry.  German POWs sit on ground and smoke. 
09:22:26  Oil wells, oil pumps. Men work, camel in the background.  Pan up oil tower.  Trucks.  CS of crude oil.  Train w / oil tanks.
09:23:49  Women in factory w/ sewing machines.  Foreman shows women how to sow.
09:24:52 Air raid siren  Red Cross, nurses training in Uzbekistan.  Nurses in gas masks carry wounded on stretcher. 
09:26:14 Training for civilians how to put out incendiary bombs in Moscow.  Woman w/ shovels throw sand on fire bomb.  People sit in park watching.  Man w/ bucket pours water on fire bomb.

 

            220412          02:51:04 - 03:00:52            1942 – 1945   b/w    Sd        USA; Pacific; Philippines       Corregidor to Iwo Jima
The Naval Workers Digest 
02:51:44  Animated map. 
02:51:55  AV Corregidor -  Japanese soldiers take down US flag following capture of island, replace w/ Japanese flag.   AV Corregidor as US paratroopers jump from plane, parachutes, rough landing on Corregidor.  US Naval ships bombard coast. 
02:53:15  USAAF over, drops bombs.  US landing craft w/ assault forces up San Jose bay to land on Corregidor beaches to retake.
02:54:10  China Seas storm.  Aircraft carrier w/ planes warming up & taking off.  F-4U Corsairs & TBM Avengers take off, attack enemy convoy carrying oil - tanker in flames.  Bombing  incendiary bombs on Japanese coast - factories & oil installations.  Strafing, Japanese planes on airfield in flames.  Mount Fujiyama.
02:57:01  Map of Iwo Jima location.   Naval ships bombard Iwo Jima - dead US sailors on deck of ship.  AV US attack fleet -  many landing craft approaching beaches.  US troops under mortar fire on beaches.  US artillery firing on Mount Suribachi.  Naval guns firing.  SB2C, Curtiss Helldiver, over & drops bombs.  Casualties, wounded removed on stretchers.  Japanese prisoners of war.  Transport ships unload military equipment - tanks.
03:00:33  Raising flag on Mount Suribachi.
POWs; WWII Pacific Battles; Fighting;

            220415          08:18:38 - 08:27:21            1943   B/W    SD        Tunisia; Italy Pacific
            All-American  R3 of 3
Fleet of transports, paratroops out parachuting to North Africa.  Landings of paratroops seen from hilltop. 
08:19:27 Stack of cans Bombs Away  Officer in front of map talks to camera:  This is a global war, and its character is no better demonstrated...  Tracking shot thru aircraft factory from floor.  Plane out of hanger.   Officer:  Naru was an island...valuable phosphate producer...   Men in Pacific talking after briefing then bombing mission;  POV from cockpit, bombing Naru, w/ bombs dropping & explosions.  Smoke.  Machine gun out of gap in side of plane; wounded on stretchers on ground. 
Man at map says American bombers helped smash the Mareth Line, (Tunisia).   Large formation of bombers llow over desert; dropping bombs from higher up & bomb-bay doors closing.  More explosions of bombs hitting.  Rabal, New Britain, planes above & coastline & ships below.  Bombs dropping.  Cameraman shooting from plane.  Explosions close to ship.  Machine gunner firing & view low over junk.  Many ships in harbor. 
08:23:30  Officer at map points to Kiska. Bombing.  Machine gunners.  Man at bombsight.  Bombs falling. Many explosions.  Violent shaking of plane.  Bombing Pantelleria, Sicily w/ bombs falling, flak.  Variety of B-24 & other planes.  Messina bombed.  Sicily bombed on fields.  Incendiary bombs over Italian mainland.  Animation of shadows of planes over world map.  The End.  This Film Is Restricted.
WWII Army Air Force; AAF; Worker Incentive; Home front efforts; Propaganda;

 

            220939          03:09:00 - 03:23:15            1943   B/W    SD        usa; England;   What To Do In A Gas Attack
Filmedia Corp; Wr/Dir/Prod. Sherman Price
Introduction titles.
03:10:18  Montage newspaper headlines re use of gas by Japanese.  British warn etc.
03:10:50  CU title:  GAS flashing.  Air raid siren, warden rings rattle, bangs drum w/ hammer.   Aircraft drop bombs. 
03:11:43  Drawing of house; model surrounded by smoke at ground level; diagram of house & escape routes.  03:12:20  Man & woman close windows, turn off fan, close fireplace & go upstairs.
03:12:41  CU hand w/ cigarette & ash tray, man reads.  VS Civilian Defense Corps in gas-proof clothing wash & sweep sidewalk; dig thru grass w/ chemicals to neutralise liquid gas.  Mustard gas danger sign. 
03:14:04  Military vehicles move through field; aircraft overhead drops gas vapour, aka vapor.  CU retort.  MCU warden calls (MOS) & waves to camera.  Man runs to house. 
03:14:48  Plane overhead, man runs to house.  CU clock [11.10am].  Man removes outer clothes & enters house. 
03;15:20  CU man blots liquid gas from arm; throws away cloth; pours bleach & rubs arm w/ cloth; CU woman w/ baking soda can; mixes baking soda in jug of water.  Man fills enema bag w/ baking soda solution & CUs man gives himself eye bath thru tube & w/ jug.
03:17:28  MCUs Man in shower; man pours jugs of water over himself.  Irrigates nose thru tube; gargles w/ solution.
03:18:22  MS  Woman checks cupboards for first aid kit, CU in shower.  Man at desk wipes forehead; lights cigarette & puts it out; lies down on couch & talks to woman.  Woman examines blisters on legs.
03:19:45  Man in gas-proof suit takes contaminated clothes from outside house.
03:20:06  Fighter planes dive; incendiary bomb damage; buildings on fire; wardens carry stretcher across rubble;  Chinese civilians run.   Tanks, war production.  Review steps to avoid gas. Sequences w/ couple in house, man administering eye bath & shower etc. repeated.
03:22:19  Montage:  Land, sea & aerial combat; crashed Nazi plane. 
03:22:48  CUs bleach, baking soda & soap.
WWII Chemical Warfare; Prevention;  Civil Defence; Civil Defense; Propaganda; Patriotism; Civilian Training Film;

 

            220425          19:31:04 - 19:41:13            1944   B/W    SD        France England            Normandy Invasion - D-Day + 3 - Part Two
D-Day - Night shots bombers taking off - aircraft in flight formation - dropping incendiary bombs over France.  Parachute regiments jumping from planes - sky filled with parachutes.  H-30mins Battleships firing, men down landing nets into landing craft.  Landing craft heading for shore under cover of Battleship fire.  H Hour Landing craft stopped by under water obstacles, troops have to wade waist deep in sea for beach.  Larger landing craft approach beachhead, troops waiting.  H+65 min Aboard LCIs troops prepare to land - wading through water under enemy fire.  LSTs out of enemy firing range waiting to move in.  On the beaches, military equipment moving in.  LCIs return to transport ships to ferry more troops inshore.   LSTs unload supplies on to LCTs - military equipment off loaded.  Rhino ferry carrying heavy equipment. Men driving jeeps off landing craft.  Mass of troops on the beaches - military trucks.  German troops now prisoners of war duck from incoming fire.  Coast Guard rescue boats searching for survivors - pick up man. Hospital ship, wounded carried on stretchers.  Injured man on stretcher transferred to ship along with plasma transfusion drip.  Crippled Coast Guard LCI - wounded removed for transfer to hospital ship.  Stretchers lowered four at a time onto deck
19:37:27  Pan over beach head - damaged  ships.  Troops marching inland.  LSTs landing cargo - trucks, tanks  and military equipment.  Barges built especially for D-Day on shore being unloaded.  Night shots Anti Aircraft guns / Ack Ack  firing at German planes.  Day - Artificial harbours.  ( Mulberry ? ) Bad weather, sea lashing against temporary harbour.  Men transferring over water using rope to climb along.  Damaged ships after storm.  Landing barges move out into Channel loaded with German prisoners.  POWs back in England board Coastguard transport ship ships at sea carrying POWs to America.

            220915          21:36:07 - 21:46:28            1944   B/W    SD        France England            Coast Guard at War - Normandy Invasion Part 2
D-Day - Night shots bombers taking off - aircraft in flight formation - dropping incendiary bombs over France.  Parachute regiments jumping from planes - sky filled with parachutes.  H-30mins Battleships firing, men down landing nets into landing craft.  Landing craft heading for shore under cover of Battleship fire. 
21:38:05 H Hour Landing craft stopped by under water obstacles, troops have to wade waist deep in sea for beach.  Larger landing craft approach beachhead, troops waiting.  H+65 min Aboard LCIs troops prepare to land - wading through water under enemy fire.  LSTs out of enemy firing range waiting to move in.  On the beaches, military equipment moving in.  LCIs return to transport ships to ferry more troops inshore.  LSTs unload supplies on to LCTs - military equipment off loaded. Rhino ferry carrying heavy equipment. Men driving jeeps off landing craft.  Mass of troops on the beaches - military trucks.  German troops now prisoners of war duck from incoming fire.  Coastguard rescue boats searching for survivors - pick up man.
21:41;35 Hospital ship, wounded carried on stretchers.  Injured man on stretcher transferred to ship along with plasma transfusion drip.  Crippled Coast Guard LCI - wounded removed for transfer to hospital ship.  Stretchers lowered four at a time onto deck
21:42:44 Pan over beach head - damaged  ships.  Troops marching inland.  LSTs landing cargo - trucks, tanks  and military equipment.  Barges built especially for D-Day on shore being unloaded. 
21:44:35 Night shots Anti Aircraft guns / Ack Ack  firing at German planes.  Day - Artificial harbours.  (Mulberry ?) Bad weather, sea lashing against temporary harbour.  Men transferring over water using rope to climb along. Damaged ships after storm.  Landing barges move out into Channel loaded with German prisoners.  POWs back in England board Coastguard transport ship ships at sea carrying POWs to America.

 

            220303          04:38:31 - 04:41:02            1945   B/W    Sd        USA      Bomb Carrying Balloon Scratchy shot paper balloon carrying incendiary bomb or other explosive. Anti Camera  gun footage  shooting them down.  Top shot laying out paper balloon on grass - various shots mechanisms - fuses - battery etc.
Pacific War

            220810          16:06:30 - 16:16:09            1945   COL      SIL       JAPAN; PACIFIC          [Hill 362 Fighting, Iwo Jima; unloading supplies]
LS explosions over Iwo Jima in night sky.  Incendiary bombs or flares floating to ground.  Little visible but several large explosions close by.
16:09:12  5th Division Marines.  Daytime, CU Marine w/ corpse or wounded.  Marines among destroyed terrain, fighter plane overhead & explosions in background.  Troops running towards camera, stop. 
16:10:17  12:30  29Feb45  Hill 362.  B Company advancing across ridge, battlefield. 
16:10:42  12:45  29Feb45  G Co. 28th  Advancing to relieve B Co.  Pan over desolate landscape, marines moving across w/ tanks parked. 
16:10:58  13:30  01Mar45  Our tanks into action just south of Hill 362.  From in front of parked tanks w/ marines beyond. 
16:11:23  MCU tanks parked firing. 
16:11:33  5th Marine Div.  CU Marine w/ wounded (continuation of that at 16:09:12).  LS Marines carrying stretcher.  LS explosions.  Marines running to camera from explosions (more of 16:09:12 shots) just behind them.
16:12:42  Convoy of jeeps w/ many marines past camera.  Marine talking w/ group of Japanese prisoners who make V sign.  CU faces.  Corpse.
16:13:26  01Mar45  Explosions of depth charges (?) off shore & US freighter trying to escape.   
16:14:02  VS landing craft against black sand beach; bulldozer working.  Crane.  LST 143 & others in line.  Men on shore gesturing.  Beyond landing craft DUKW being loaded w/ supplies.  Landing craft heading out.  16:14:40  Beached landing craft.  Wrecked ship nearly parallel against shore w/ waves breaking over.  16:50:00  Shipboard crane unloading crates from ship; crane on shore loading cargo of 55 gallon drums onto tracked vehicle from door of landing craft.   Landing craft 1028 w/ door down.   Marine walking w/ Drive Slow sign over shoulders, digs hole for sign. 
Pacific War. POWs; Horrors of War;

            220928          15:00:27 - 15:22:24            1945   B/W    SD        usa       Japanese Paper Balloon Two reels
AVs Japanese paper balloon, codename Paper, intended to carry incendiary bombs to drop on west coast US/ Canada - examples recovered for analysis; LS downed balloon in field. CU map of wind velocities, Japan-US. CUs balloon and ballast with incendiary bags. VS US airman examining balloon and materials. Balloon in studio, scientist? pointing to different features. VS mechanism taken apart w/ illustrations.
15:21:48: Warning against aiding enemy by discussing information in film.

 

            220976          13:11:12 - 13:14:42            1945   B/W    SD        england; france           Reveal Under-Sea Oil Line, Britain to Continent
Pan oil refinery; map English Channel; pumping stations disguised as ice cream stalls etc.  Pipeline production.  Ships w/ steel drums lay cable across Channel; diagrams.  Troops wade onto beach.  Trucks, tanks and planes; incendiary bomb explodes.
War inventions

            221413-09   01:23:06 - 01:23:54            1945   B/W    SIL       japan   [WWII - 1945, Night Incendiary bombing Of Japan]
Small fires from plane at night, small bursts & fires growing.  Bouncy telephoto shot.
WW2 Pacific War;

            220833          22:17:10 - 22:18:00            1945?            B/W    SIL       Japan   Night Incendiary bombing of Japan
Aerials of night bombing.



 

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