B-29s Prepare To Fly To Tokyo (1945)

Unissued / Unused material. Title reads - ’B-29s bomb Tokyo from new U.S. air base on Saipan’. M/S American army trucks driving along after capture of Saipan. L/S explosion as they make new airfield for B-29 bombers. M/S soldier depressing plunger and running, L/S another explosion. C/U and M/S steamroller as they lay new airstrip. Various shots Major General H. H. Arnold, Chief of the American Army Air Corps, shaking hands with aircrew next to plane. M/S as he points to bomb. M/S and C/U as one of the pilots writes message on bomb picked out by Arnold. It reads ’To the warlords of Japan we have not forgotten - The B-29s will remind you again and again and again’. Good M/S as B-29 Super Fortress comes in to land and taxis. L/S as people crowd around it. M/S crews shaking hands. M/S map of Pacific showing range from Saipan to Japan. M/S as a plane takes off. M/S of formation in air. M/S three of the B-29s in the air. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH