Summary

HUNTERS IN THE SKY - H-HOUR of D-Day

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: HUNTERS IN THE SKY - H-HOUR of D-Day
File Number: TAP-8C Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 1944
Subjects: Aerials, WWII, aircraft, airplanes
Description: 01:00:35:29 - 01:19:52:08 B W Sound 1944 WWII aviation. VO narration by fighter pilot. B-25s bombing Cape Gloucester, Solomon Islands pilot briefing B-17s with P-51 escort P-47s & P-51s taking off from field. German pilots scramble for Messerschmitts German-American dogfights VS United States, American, Allied Forces, aircraft, soldiers, Paratroopers, Airborne Infantry, pilots, ships, preparing & participating in D-Day, soldiers shot on shore at D-Day landing, B-26 "Marauders" bombing targets, B-17 "Flying Fortress". General Larson speech. 01:00:35:29 - 01:03:56:16 B W Sound 1944 VS AVs of B-25s (Mitchell, a twin-engine bomber), some w painted noses, in single file formation, in loose groups, Good pan of two B-25s, bombs from airplane dropping in water over shoreline, Cape Gloucester, Solomon Islands. Good AV bombs exploding on ground. More bombs falling on coastline area. Good close clusters of explosions. VS B-25s flying overhead, below, next to camera (w painted noses). VS machine gun firing (strafing), from cockpit, Great AV next to B-25 w machine gun firing, low strafing runs over island vegetation, run w bombs dropped, B-25 in flight. B-26 "Marauder" bombings, 01:04:00:02 - 01:07:38:16 B W Sound 1944 US Air force briefing. VS pilots sitting classroom style, officer w pointer on smaller map positioned in front of larger map, Good CU of pilot watching, listening, CU row of pilots. VS synchronizing watches, officer on stage, pilots in audience. Pilots leave briefing. VS pilots, putting on head gear, getting into cockpit. VS airplanes starting, propellers turning. VS airplanes taxiing, airplane taking off, P-51 airplane (w white nose cone), P-47 "Thunderbolt" labeled "Rat Racer", field of airplanes, P-47 & P-51), taxiing. P-51 "Ding Hao! w multiple "Rising Suns" kill markers. Man fires flare gun. VS airplanes taking off, in flight. Good P-47s flying in formation behind group of B-17 Bombers ("Flying Fortress"). P-51 flying alone, CU of two machine gun ports on wing. VS pilot in practice w machine guns, gunnery runs, interior of cockpit, target on practice field, pilot in Jeep w other soldiers waves hat. 01:07:39:24 - 01:10:32:17 B W Sound 1944 More P-47s flying in formation behind group of B-17 Bombers ("Flying Fortress"). German Air Raid siren. German pilots running for Messerschmitt airplanes (ME-110s), getting into cockpits, cranking airplanes, taxiing, taking off, in flight. Silhouettes of B-17s in flight. VS dogfight w US and German airplanes, P-51 machine guns firing, one German plane hit, falls out of formation. More machine guns, German airplane explodes w white smoke. VS interior of side gunner shooting from B-17. P-51 (other wing) machine gun firing, German airplane wing explodes, spins. Rear attack on airplane, machine gun bullets, airplane explodes at camera. FW-190 in flight. ME-109 exploding. 01:10:37:17 - 01:14:05:26 B W Sound June 5, 1944 June 5, 1944. Rural road w horse & trees, airplane taxiing slowly on runway in BG. Ships & small craft on water on English coast. VS US American, Allied Forces: soldiers walking on base road, convoy of equipment, trucks, soldiers boarding Higgins Boat, soldiers loading bulldozer & truck into large transport. Higgins boat full of soldiers. VS Airborne Infantry, Paratroopers walking, boarding airplanes. VS transport & glider airplanes on field (all w white identification flashes used by Allied aircraft in the D-Day invasion of Europe), taxiing, flying in formation. More ships & small craft on sea (British & American). Paratroopers, Airborne Infantry jumping out of aircraft, parachutes in silhouette below airplanes. Warship assault on land. 01:14:08:19 - 01:19:18:01 B W Sound 1944 Warship assault on land, one exploding target . VS heavy artillery firing on water targets. VS B-25s bombing land targets: heavy grouping of bombs exploding. GREAT famous shot of Infantry in Higgins Boat landing on shore (D-Day), soldiers being shot on shore. VS machine gun from airplanes, gunning one antiaircraft tower, hitting moving train, engine on fire, hitting rear of Messerschmitt, tail on fire. Good VS B-26 "Marauder" Bomber airplanes (white identification flashes) bombing in clusters, bombs dropping from bomb bay, bombs taking out bridge, roads. B-26s, B-17s in flight. Allied Forces in air & at sea. 01:19:19:07 - 01:19:52:08 B W Sound 1944 General Larson gives short speech about combat. Seated at desk w 3 coming out of a circle, star off center circle, insignia behind him on wall.
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