The role of combat cameraman. National Archives and Records Administration Local Identifier 111-RTAF-141 Report to the Armed Forces, Issue No. 141 The role of combat cameraman. No ARC identifier. DVD Copied by Master Scanner Thomas Gideon.
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(Munich 187) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 24, 1946. War criminal von Burgdorff seated in truck on Furth airfield and guarded by MPs. Col. Muszkat, Chief of the Polish Mission for Pros...
SS Bunker, Dachau SS Compound, Prison for Defendants, Dachau, Germany, May 14, 1946. Pan of bunker which houses defendants. LS, German civilian laborers entering main entrance of SS camp. Scenes of...
"During the occupation of Germany by the Allies after World War II, the US Army designated the prison as War Criminal Prison No. 1 to hold convicted Nazi war criminals. It was run and guarded by pe...
Compares the effect of white phosphorous and high explosives fired in 42-inch mortars during tests at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Dummies are placed in foxholes and in attack formation, shelled, an...
Last days of air war in Germany Near end of World War II in Europe. United States 9th Air Force P-47 aircraft, virtually unopposed, strafe German targets on the ground. Gun camera footage from P-47...
1) MS Looking into the barrel of 16" gun, showing the rifling.2) MLS Crane moving the barrel of 16" gun.3) MS Gun barrel coming out of furnace and being forged; hot steel drops off of mold.4) DS Lo...
After Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, General Arnold ordered Crump to document the extent of the damage caused by aerial bombardment. This project was code-named "Special Film Project 186." Crump and his crew, using color film, surveyed bomb damage inflicted on the major European cities. In addition, Crump recorded the debriefings of Nazi civilian and military personnel in Allied custody such as Herman Goering, as well as the capture of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps by American soldiers. Upon viewing the film of the camps for the first time, Malvin Wald recollected, "Even though it was a summer day, Reagan came out shivering—we all did. We’d never seen anything like that." Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Motion_Picture_Unit
Crump and his crew shot hundreds of hours of film—most of which has never been seen. The Army Air Force declined to fund the production and editing of the footage at an estimated cost of $1 million. The documentary The Story of Special Film Project 186 points out that the effort was "the biggest color film project of World War II—and the biggest unseen film of all time."