FRONT LINE AIRFIELD (AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: FRONT LINE AIRFIELD (AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 142
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: The aircraft shown, in this 'maintenance' footage, are Typhoons, are Typhoons and Mustangs; an airman removes an aircraft's cowling and another tightens up engine connections with a spanner; the 'bared' propeller is revved up; shots of aircraft engine with covers removed; hands select from tool kit; mechanics with an aircraft engine; the nuts on a wheel hub are tightened; piled up cans, under some camouflaging netting - two airmen arrange sacking on it; a tyre is thrown onto a large pile of used aircraft tyres; a neat stack of ammunition boxes is shown; shots of part of the main plane and wing of aircraft; hands work on an aircraft engine; various shots of main plane, ammunition boxes (including airmen stacking some), new aircraft tyres and packing crates (with bombs in the foreground), and a stack of crates (spare aircraft parts) partly covered over.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-22
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Eades (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Typhoon (object name) aircraft, United States - light military: North American P-51 Mustang photoreconnaissance (object name) operations, British air - maintenance (object name) France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 487 ft; Running time: 5 mins
  • HD Media:
  • Notes: Summary: see remarks to ACB 25. Technical: print is part of a can comprising ACB 140-142 (total length 767 ft).
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 142

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