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Military History Monday!

I have another doctor’s appointment early this afternoon, and didn’t have a chance to set this up yesterday, so I’m being shorter than usual today.

“Target Toyko”:

…the story of the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces flying out of Saipan. B-29 crews are followed from their training staging at Grand Island, Nebraska to their bombing embarkation point on the island of Saipan. From there, the B-29 attack on the Nakajima aircraft plant outside Tokyo is depicted.

Extra bonus: the narrator is Ronald Reagan.

Bonus #1: “Position Firing”, an animated 1944 Army Air Corps film about hitting moving targets.

Extra bonus: “Trigger Joe” is voiced by Mel Blanc.

Bonus #2: “Arctic Mission”. This is yet another Bell System (actually Western Electric) propaganda film, but I think it more appropriately belongs here: it covers the construction of the DEW Line, and specifically deals with the difficulties of construction and transport above the Arctic Circle.

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