Fight For The Sky - US Fighter Pilots vs Luftwaffe Reel-2

Shot List:

r2:00:09:17;10

Fighter pilots in briefing room, officer use pointer and large wall map to brief pilots on mission. CU of pilots writing notes on back or palm of left hands. Shows pilots “setting their watches” or "synchronizing watches".

Pilots at religious service, taking their emergency kit and emptying pockets, picking up parachute and flotation vest.

r2:00:11:25;02

Fighter pilots arrive on flight line, board aircraft aided by “plane captain” of that aircraft. Various shots of P-47 cranking propellers, planes taxing, and taking off. Head-on shot of a P-47 with wing tanks taking off directly over camera position. P-47's aircraft taking off. Shows P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang aircrafts taking off. LS of P-47 Thunderbolts flighting in “battle formation”. CU of pilots searching the sky looking for enemy planes. Shows P-47 aircraft drooping wing tanks and attacking german Luftwaffe planes.

Air combat (aerial) combat footage, CU of hand of pilot firing machine guns, enemy plane explodes. CU of the P-47 machine guns firing.

r2:00:15:46;09

CU, of B-17 bomber in flight showing nose gunner and top gunner turrets or stations. Shows a flight of P-47 fighters. LS of group of P-51 Mustangs coming in to relieve the P-47 escort fighters. P-47 fighters break escort duty, peel off and head for home. P-51 fighter bomber escort aircraft in battle formation.

r2:00:17:31;06

Captured German film. CU of alert siren at German Luftwaffe airfield German pilots scramble to board Messerschmitt (ME-109) and Focke-Wulf FW 190 fighter planes. German ME-109 and FW-190 German fighter planes taking off. Scenes of B-17 bombers and P-51 escort aircraft.