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AAF Combat Camera Weekly Digest No. 15
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AAF Combat Camera Weekly Digest No 15 1943-12-10 Cargo Planes Reach Bougainville etc . This is the January 31, 1944 episode of the AAF newsreel. First title card: 1943-12-10 First Cargo Planes Reach Bougainville, Empress Augusta Bay, 10 December 1943 Second title card: Calcutta India, October 1943 Third title card: Air Raid Damage Calcutta India, 5 December 1943 Shot list at the National Archives: "1) AtoG Three R4D"s flying low over the water. 2) AV Single airstrip showing parked planes on side. 3) MCU R4D"s landing. 4) MS Crowds of men on field that have turned out to see the planes. 5) CU Many soldiers around an Army nurse that landed with one of the planes, she is signing autographs for the men. 6) GV Unloading supplies from R4D"s. 7) AV Calcutta, as planes fly over the city, showing business district, RR yards, docks with many ships in harbor. 8) MS Many ships in harbor in Calcutta, mostly cargo ships with booms sticking into the air. 9) CU American cargo ships at dock being unloaded, many cargo cranes on dock. 10) MS Indian guard at entrance to supply area. 11) PAN Many crates of material stacked in long rows. 12) PAN Vehicle storage area, showing many trucks, both dump and t…
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United States. Army Air Forces
Subjects
WWII, United States. -- Army Air Forces -- Air Force, 14th, United States. -- Army Air Forces -- Air Force, 10th, Douglas DC-3 (Transport Plane), World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- India
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