[303rd-Talk] 303rd BG DVD

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Detailed Scene  Index:
 
1 hour, 44 minutes of 8th Air Force Heavy  Bomber Action!  Most in 
Outstanding Color!  Sound throughout!  This one is proving to be a top  seller.
 
Part One:  Heading to Molesworth,  England - "Home Movies" narrated using 
script written by 2Lt.  John E. Castle.  Crystal-clear color scenes of B-17 
Flying Fortresses  at Kellogg Field.  Super personnel shots.  Tons of  nose art.  
12 October 1942 departure for Bangor, ME.   In-flight shots.  Newfoundland.  
Molesworth airfield  scenes (mud, wind and ice ... you vets will feel like 
you're back).   Practice Missions - high altitude and vapor trails for the first  
time!  [Narrated.  All Color]
 
Part Two:  Operational  Missions - Lorient, France (23 Jan  43):  Mission 
Planning.  Gunners.  Loading Bombs.   Turning props through.  In the cockpit 
scenes.  Flak.   Fighters.  Bombs Away!  Losses.  Back to  Molesworth.  Battle 
damage and repairs.  Villacoublay, France  (14 Jul 1943):  Color film shot on 
this day's mission.   Airborne and inside B-17s.  Crews after mission.  
"Knock-Out  Dropper's" 50th Mission (16 Nov 1943):  [First Eighth Air Force  B-17 to 
complete 50 missions.  Later, she was the first 8th AF Fort to  complete 75 
missions.  17 different crews flew her.  No major battle  damage.  Flew home and 
later scrapped in Stillwater, OK in July  1945].  Ground scenes.  Pilots just 
before getting  in.  Firing up and taxi out.  Lots of airborne  shots.  Landing 
and taxi back to dispersal.  Crew welcomed  home.  Painting on that big 50th 
bomb.  "Hell's Angels" gets another  bomb symbol, too.  Ground crews at work.  
Fall  1943:  MGen. Eaker discusses the last year of 8AF operations  - the 
"Bold Experiment".  [Narrated.  Color and  B/W]
 
Part Three:  8th Air Force  Review 1944 - Newsreel footage and highlights of 
8th AF  operations and people.  Bombers and fighters.  Lots of gun  camera 
film.  56th Fighter Group P-47s.  The Royal Family.   Princess Elizabeth 
christens B-17G "Rose of  York".  [Narration.  B/W]
 
Part Four:  And if That Wasn't  Enough - Outtakes:  303rd Bomb Group and 
other  source footage.  Various outtake scenes from Capt. Clark  Gable's "Combat 
America", a film made about aerial gunners in  action.   Majority of the combat 
footage was shot with the  303rd Bomb Group.  352nd Fighter Group P-47s and 
pilots at Bodney - in  color!  Combat scenes.  Lots of airfield and people  
shots, especially at Molesworth.  V-E Day at Molesworth and in  London:   
Ceremonies at Molesworth.  Throngs of people  in London celebrating.  Royal family 
waving to the  crowd.  [Narration.  Mostly Color with  some B/W]
 
Part Five:  Return to  Molesworth - In 1954, an American USAF enlisted man 
and  an Englishman toured Molesworth - with a camera.  Absolutely priceless  
footage of "ten years later" showing the old buildings and the airfield in  
general.  [B/W]
  
 
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