USMC 100461: "Army Air Force Weekly Digest, No. 24"

Item Description
Title
USMC 100461: "Army Air Force Weekly Digest, No. 24"

Citation information
USMC 100461: "Army Air Force Weekly Digest, No. 24". 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 100461

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100461

Decade
1940

Date
1943

Description
First Army Air Force Weekly Digest, No. 24. Not prepared for public display as reel marked "Secret." Features multiple accounts from 1943 and 1944. "Front Line Hospital Burma" covers operations by Lt. Gen. Joseph Stillwell, Lt. Cln. Gordon Seagraves and Burmese nurses at the Front Line Hospital in Yupbang, Burma, and transport of the wounded to Ledo via the 71st Liaison Squadron's L-4s and L-5s (Dec 1943). "Search for Crashed Zero" features members of the 14th Air Force traveling by jeep, ponies and on foot to and from the small Chinese mountain village of Wantien in search of a fallen Japanese plane (Feb 11 1944). "Dumbo Rescue Mission" depicts a two-engine consolidated Catalina, nicknamed Dumbo, protecting Corsairs en route to rescue two pilots downed at sea in St. George's Channel, and their return to Rabaul and the USS Coos Bay (April 2 1944). "Bombing of Caroline Islands" offers aerial footage of 22 B-24s of the 307th Group's assault on Pulusuk Island (March 26 1944). "Bombing of Bouganville" features aerial footage of bombs falling from American B-24s on the Soloman Islands (Dec 3-4 1943). "The JU-88" shows testing and demonstration of a German "junker" plane, including capability statistics. The film also provides footage of the "Chinese American Wing's new air base at Kweilin, with shots of B-25s and P-40s taking off and landing, and of Chinese pilots and American pilots of the 14th Air Force, along with Maj. Gen. Shenuk (Dec 10-12 1943). "Crew Returns from Kowloon Mission" features an interview with B-24 pilots from the 308th Bomb Group after engine trouble forced them to bail out of their aircraft. They give accounts of their escape into a river, their missing group members, and the aid given to them by Chinese and American missionaries (Nov 25 1943).

Location(s)
Yupbang (Burma); Wantien (China); Rabaul (Papua New Guinea); Caroline Islands; Kweilin (China) ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)

Camera crew
United States Army Air Corps; 16th Combat Camera Unit; 13th Combat Camera Unit; 10th Combat Camera Unit

Producing entity
United States. Army Air Forces.

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed throughout late 1943 and early 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 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
22:03

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II