[Footage from aircraft gun cameras, depicting aerial combat and strafing runs, 1943-1945]

Title

[Footage from aircraft gun cameras, depicting aerial combat and strafing runs, 1943-1945]

Description

Film footage from aircraft gun cameras, depicting aerial combat and strafing runs, 1943-1945. The footage is taken from multiple different missions and depicts attacks against enemy aircraft and ground targets such as trains, trucks, and buildings. Some of the scenes include a title card listing the pilot's name and rank, the mission date, and the aircraft or target being attacked. Pilots mentioned in the title cards are Peter E. Pompetti, E. S. Lang, Gillespie Bryan, and Josey. All of the pilots named in the title cards are members of the 84th Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group. The footage concludes with a panning shot of North American P-51 Mustangs at an unidentified airfield (visible tail numbers 415716 and 472481)

Aircraft types featured in the combat footage are: Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Messerschmitt Bf 110, Junkers Ju 52, Henschel Hs 121, and Heinkel He 111.

The footage is silent and in black-and-white until 00:05:34; afterwards, the footage is in color.

Label on container: "PC Pompetti, 78th FG, Mar 44, last half in color of ground strafe."

Date

1943-1945 circa

Extent

1 film reel (14 min., 46 sec.) : silent, color and b&W ; 16 mm

Bibliographic Citation

The James Stewart Fighter Ace Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

2002-02-13-1098_AV_006_01