Italy: Cassino - pilot briefing, bombing of Cassino town ADC-898
111-adc-898
09:19
Description:
1944/03/15
CU, hand points to sections on map.
MLS, officers grouped around an unidentified Maj Gen who points to map and instructs them. In the group are several British officers and pilots.
VS, pilots are briefed on large outdoor map.
VS, Red Cross girls handing out doughnuts and coffee.
VS, fl -26 warms engines, taxis and takes off.
AV, six B-255 in formation. Excellent CU, B•25. LS, shells exploding on mountainside. INT, machine gunner fires.
AVs, terrain below.
Seq: Group of pilots sitting on bombs alongside B-25. Men get up and walk twds the plane and board it.
VS, three B-25s take off.
AVs, six B-25s in flight; planes peel off one at a time.
LS, AV, B-25s dropping shower of bombs. Tilt down to explosions below.
Ground view, train of explosions; Cassino monastery in bg on mountain top.
AVs, explosions below on village and countryside.