USMC 100460: "Army Air Force Weekly Digest, No. 42"

Item Description
Title
USMC 100460: "Army Air Force Weekly Digest, No. 42"

Citation information
USMC 100460: "Army Air Force Weekly Digest, No. 42". United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
BY

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
USMC 100460

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100460;

Decade
1940

Date
1944

Description
First Army Air Force Weekly Digest, No. 42. Not prepared for public display as reel marked "Restricted." Contains campaign updates for air raids by the 1st and 12th Army Air Force Combat Camera Units against German supply and communication lines south of Florence, Italy in 1944. This includes aerial footage of unintercepted bomb runs on Siena and Leghorn (April 11), Poggibonsi (April 22), Incisa and Porto San Stefano (May 12). These air attacks by B-26 Marauders and Supermarine Spitfighters targeted bridges, viaducts, railway yards and harbors. Film also depicts an update on the Shingles Operation near Cappedichino including a meeting with the Headquarters Squadron 79th Fighter Group and pilots' reports to an intelligence officer after combat while providing cover for the land assault by landing naval forces at Anzio and Neptuno. Also depicts the bombing of German Headquarters in Italy (May 12) by B-17s and P-38s, a crash landing and medical removal of a radio operator, as well as attacks against German occupied training bases in Chartres, France (March 28), hangars and workshops in Diest, Belgium (April) and factories and freight yards in Warnemunde, Germany (April). The Army Air Force faced weak or no air resistance and limited anti-aircraft fire at each location noted above.

Location(s)
Siena (Italy); Diest (Belgium) ; Poggibonsi (Italy); Incisa in Valdarno (Italy); Chartres (France); Warnemunde, Rostock (Germany)

Camera crew
United States Army Air Corps; 9th Combat Camera Unit; 10th Combat Camera Unit; 11th Combat Camera Unit

Producing entity
United States. Army Air Forces.

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed throughout the first half of 1944.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
B&W

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
780

Original aspect ratio
1.37:1 (Academy)

Original media type
Motion pictures (visual works)

Language
English

Contributing organization
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections


Digital collection name
United States Marine Corps Films


Rights information
Public Domain. For further information please contact Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
06/04/2018

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye.

Digital runtime
22:07

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II