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Biography: Billy Mitchell
American aviation experiment on "unsinkable" German warships (orchestrated by Billy Mitchell). TLSs biplanes in flight; high angle MSs bombs being dropped from bay (deployed, bombs away), LSs naval cruisers & battleship being bombed (direct hits & fairly rapid sinkings); MSs military officers (including General John J. Pershing, aka Blackjack Pershing) watching. Bombing the ships. 2 of the 3 ship are sunk.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
American aviation experiment on "unsinkable" German warship Ostfriesland (orchestrated by Billy Mitchell). Damage control shots of the extremely battered yet still floating Ostfriesland then more shots of Billy Mitchell attacking ship, eventually sinking it.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
MSs U.S. President Warren G. Harding & his administration standing on steps of U.S. Capitol Building. Teapot Dome. MS President Harding playing golf.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
TLSs another aviation experiment, artillery battery shoots at target attached to a biplane flown by Billy Mitchell; MS Billy showing off the virtually unscathed target. Officers walk towards camera. Billy Mitchell at a desk.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
LSs USS Shenandoah zeppelin in flight; LSs wreckage after fatal crash.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
MSs U.S. President CALVIN COOLIDGE in office.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
Court martial of Billy Mitchell. MSs Billy Mitchell and his wife arriving at courthouse. MSs Willaim Simms arriving at courthouse; INT shots courtroom, trial in progress; MS presiding military brass exiting courthouse, among them General Douglas MacArthur.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
MSs Billy Mitchell, wife and baby standing outside suburban home, posing.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini inspecting air forces. Planes fly in formation.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
Nice aerial shot of Berlin airport (says "Berlin" on airfield). German Chancellor Adolf Hitler inspecting air forces. TLS early German Junkers bomber plane taking off.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
MS Billy Mitchell (wearing a fur coat, probably racoon) speaking about the use of foreign air power (real audio). As conceded by every first calss power in the world, air power will determine the next war. Each nation is organized now, to mass air power at the beginning of a contest. Instead of the armies and navies being the objects of the attack of air power, they will go directly to the vital centers. Our future in this country depends on air power.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
Billy Mitchell in uniform sitting in an arm chair. Billy Mitchell in civilain suit, talking to camera.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
MS Billy Mitchell sitting on snowy lawn, petting dog.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
Montage of German Luftwaffe and Italian air forces in flight, dropping bombs, paratroopers leaping, etc.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
Montage of Japanese fighter planes attacking Pearl Harbor ("great" shot of a cruiser being bombed, as seen from wing of passing fighter).
Biography: Billy Mitchell
Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan, 1942: USS Hornet sailing in Pacific; MSs U.S. General James Doolittle posing w/ honorary bomb on deck; LSs Mitchell bombers taking off from aircraft carrier. In flight, dropping bombs; high angle damage control shots of Tokyo.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
Dissolve to shot of a Mitchell bomber in flight, a smaller fighter plane attched to its wing; the fighter separates, takes off. Great LS space rocket (in BG) as two astronauts in helmets amble towards it.
Biography: Billy Mitchell
DO NOT USE Wallace's closing comments
Biography: Billy Mitchell
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White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT2
Operating Room (Prep & Anesthesiologist): CU hand opening lid to small index card filing box labeled "Blood Donor". MCU masked surgeons scrubbing down in sink prior to operation. MCU/MS masked nurse helping masked surgeon slip into gown & gloves. CU surgical tools being laid out neatly on tray. MS hospital orderly & nurse wheeling patient through door reading "Surgery". MCU male anesthesiologist looking over the patient's chart. MCU anesthesiologist using stethoscope to listen to the heart of young patient on the operating table. CU anesthesia mask being placed over patient's face. CU anesthesiologist turning & adjusting knobs, administering anesthetic gas. CU patient under anesthesia, her eye is opened pried by doctor's gloved fingers.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT2
Operating Room: MS surgical team with operation in progress. MCU surgeons & assistants around the patient, passing & receiving tools. CU tray as surgical tools are picked up & passed. MCU masked surgeon having his brow wiped by assistant. MS surgical team as operation wraps up. MS male hospital orderly wheeling patient out of operating room. MS hospital room as orderly & nurses move patient from gurney to bed.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT2
Hospital Interior: Montage of clips showing a young healthy girl doing typical childhood things (stretching w/smile while getting out of bed, playing w/doll, reading a book) while superimposed images of a surgical operation are shown, the parallel audio is of a distraught mother worrying about her daughter whom is currently under the knife. MCU couple seated in hospital lobby, waiting for their child to get out of surgery, the woman is distraught & crying while her husband tries to consoles her. MS parents rising to their feet as surgeon enters the room with update on their child's condition, the mother's head collapses into her hands with a cry of relief after hearing the news that her daughter will be fine.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT2
Hospital Room: MS nurse wiping the face of young girl while she sleep in recovery room bed, the child's parents enter to visit. MCU mother stroking the head of her child. MCU nurse standing in doorway asking to speak to the mother. MCU woman leaving child's bedside. MS woman & nurse conversing in hallway.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT3
Hospital Room: MS two male doctors & female nurse standing around bed of young boy resting in hospital bed, doctor tells the young patient that he will be fixed up so he can walk again. CU young boy laying in bed, with his hands tucked behind his head responding "Oh Boy, that's swell". MS doctors leaving the room. MCU male doctors conversing in the hallway, the two men shake hands.