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| keywords: saipan airfield, b-29 bombers, secretary hull, c-82 flying boxcar transport plane, leyte landings, battle of leyte |
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Synopsis: Construction Crews Build Airstrip On Saipan For B-29 Bombers, US Honors Retiring Secretary Hull, Aviation News C-82 Flying Boxcar And Air Dropped Lifeboat, Mail For The Sailors Delivered the Navy Way, Japanese Air Attack During Leyte Landings... (read more) |
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Information: 1944 11 min BW |
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On Saipan, Navy Construction Battalion and Army Construction Engineers labor to build an airstrip for B-29 bombers. Shows construction equipment, machines, and men constructing an airfield. Shows a Barber-Greene asphalt plant in operation and a Barber-Greene paving machine laying asphalt.
At Bolling Field General Arnold greets the crew that will fly the first B-29 to Saipan. Message to the War Lords in Japan are written on a bomb. Shows first B-29 Super Fortress landing on Saipan. General Haywood Hansel leader of the 21st Bomber Command greets crew. Shows family of General Emmett O’Donnel Jr. General O’Donnell led the first B-29 raid on Japan.
Secretary Hull, retiring, is honored as President Roosevelt and others gather in the White House. Secretary of State Stettinius speaks at a Variety Club dinner.
Latest Aviation News. Shows the Flying Boxcar, the C-82, being loaded. Shows a new lifeboat that is dropped from a B-17.
Mail for the fleet. Mail is transferred from a mail ship to a destroyer by breeches buoy.
Japanese planes attack U.S Navy convoy off Leyte. Enemy planes are shot down and crashes into the sea. Shows Japanese planes crashing into U.S. landing craft. On Leyte heavy artillery bombard Japanese positions. Shows Tacloban airbase on Leyte is put into operation. General MacArthur watches as P-38 fighter takes off.
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