Rescuing Allied airmen

Identifier
irn1000805
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.0942
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Office of Strategic Services. (Producer)
  • Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Branch (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Scope and Content

Project Gunn, Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Branch, Unit 24, 1944. Film Report: On a mission headed by Lt. Col Gunn during World War II to rescue by air Allied airmen in a POW camp southwest of Bucharest, Romania. REEL 1: AVs, Albanian coastline and Danube River as plane approaches Ploesti airfield. Romanian officials greet O.S.S officers to arrange evacuation of the prisoners.

Subjects

  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY
  • ROMANIA
  • AERIAL VIEWS
  • POWS (AMERICAN)
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • RESCUERS/RESCUE
  • AIRPLANES

Places

  • Bucharest, Romania

Genre

  • Film
  • Documentary.
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