Extrodinary achive footage of 100th bomb group in East Anglia

[ian elliot]

Hand filmed mostly in color but no sound im afraid, about 45 min worth, great stuff in here--
cheers ian
http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/226537

[Bomber_12th]

The website was having some issues this morning, but I'm able to watch it now. Really amazing footage - much of that color footage is almost unreal, it's so fresh and clear! Thank you for providing a link to it, Ian! Absolutely incredible stuff.

With these types of home movies continuing to be "un-earthed", it makes one wonder what else there is out there, that is still in people's private collections, un-seen.

[Naismith]

What a terrific find, thanks for the link.

[Bone]

Wonderfull footage!

EDIT: Evidently, aircrew members got to go out on the Royal Navy PT rescue boats as a matter of course. Bomber12's video of the Fighter Group had PT boat footage, also.

[TeaSea]

Thanks for this. Really excellent!

[Bomber_12th]

Not too often you find such complete film footage like this, which starts at the groups training location in the U.S., follows their train ride to New York, scenes actually from their stay in New York, the boat docks in New York and then in England, settling into life in England and the effects of combat missions, the basic end, and then true end of hostilities, with flights over the bombed cities (which were provided to those who had been part of the ground echelon), and finally the boat ride home back to the States.