Video Clips
Please select a video clip collection or an individual video clip below to view.
Video Clip Collections:
Individual Video Clips:
Target Tokyo
(realplayer format, 2 parts each 11 min.)
Narrated by Ronald Reagan, great flight footage and roaring engine sounds. Source: PBS, Victory In The Pacific. Some of these crews were trained at PAAF.
B-29 Flight Procedures
(realplayer format, 37 minutes)
Watch the same film used to familiarize B-29 pilots with the "Superfortress" during World War 2.
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
(adobe flash format, 39 minutes)
"The Memphis Belle," directed by William Wyler, is a tribute to the crew
of the United States Air Force's 324th Squadron, 91st Heavy Bomber Unit,
an airplane more familiarly known as the Memphis Belle.
WASP History
(adobe flash format, 6 minutes)
Notice that Pratt AAF appears in bases listing toward end of clip.
Target Invisible
(adobe flash format, 9 minutes)
Illustrates the use of radar on a dramatized mission over Japan (1945)
Narrated by Arthur Kennedy and radar operator played by Clayton Moore, "The Lone Ranger".
Interview of Enola Gay Crew
(adobe flash format, 6 minutes)
The Enola Gay is the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped "Little Boy", the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare, when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) attacked Hiroshima, Japan August 6, 1945, just before the end of World War II. (Source is Wikipedia). Before he flew the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, pilot Paul Tibbets took a practice run in Pratt and nearly clipped the top of the old Roberts Hotel!