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Newsreels: 1944 Events At Home And Abroad
Newsreels 1944 stock footage documents world events, politics and war as well as sports, fashion and entertainment for the year of 1944. Our Public Domain Stock Footage newsreels cover every major world event, the not so major events, strides in technology, the lives of public figures, fads and trends. Newsreels 1944 is an incredibly rich resource of visual history that tells the story of the year 1944.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44001)

YANK MARKSMEN BAG JAP PLANES
(A flaming spectacle which elicits gasps from seasoned film goers)
As an American task force streams along to prosecute a raid on the Marshall Islands, Jap torpedo planes soar into view to destroy a Yank aircraft carrier. From her expansive flight deck we see some of the most spectacular action scenes of this war. Sailors fall prone to permit sprays of bullets to belch upwards at the attacking Japs. One of the celestial planes streaks in alongside our ship and he is hit with a torrent of lead. He smacks into the ocean and his foul ship explodes.

G. I. TURKEYS GOBBLED UP
Italy—A huge ship unloads supplies. An amphibious ‘Duck’ chugs ashore with its share and heads for the kitchen. Chefs get hold of the cargo—and in jig time, the troops are delighted with American turkeys for their holiday feast. And the rest of the bill of fare is up to the same high standard.

“C” RATION
The front line 5th Army is getting fed up with “canned Willie.” The monotonous regularity with which C Ration bobs up at meal time brings deep seated expressions of disgust. Lip readers will catch on.

GALLANT SISTERS OF MERCY
Courageous American nurses are shown smiling through as they experience the rigors of an Italian winter. They wade through mud to complete their laundry—then they spring to their task

ORANGE BOWL
Miami—Louisiana State upsets AGgies (victor in their previous meeting ) by 19 to 14. The difference between them is embodied in “Moving Van” Van Buren—a whale of a ball toter for L.S.U.

LARGEST CONCRETE SHIP
Georgia—“Concrete No. 8,” an 11,000 ton tanker built of conrete, hits the ways, with the reputation of being ‘unsinkable’ and capable of lasting forever.

SUGER BOWL
New Orleans—Georgia Tech vs. Tulsa in a free scoring classic that shows All American Eddie Prokop of Tech at his dazzling best. At final count the score is Georgia Tech 20, Tulsa 18.

MUMMERS IS THE WORD
Philadelphia—New Year’s Day brings in one of the gayest rituals in the living files of Americana as the Mummers parade in their exotic danging costumes.

ROSE BOWL
Pasadena—The grand daddy of them all, the Rose Bowl, features U.S.C. vs. Uni. Of Washington. The heavy Northerners were pre-game favorites, but their lighter California foes blast them with passes, 29 to 0.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44002)

THE YANKS IN KWAJELEIN
AS the American victory mounts, island by island, in the tremendous Marshall campaign, we watch the Marines in some of their high-powered handling of the revisiting Japs, at Kwajalein. The Devildogs pour lead into burning block houses, and the shrinking remnants of the garrisons come reeling out, to surrender. So many dead Japs are lying around that hurried arrangements are made to bury them. And broken to bits, lying all over the ground, are new Tojo type planes and Zeros. The American dead are interred at a military cemetery. America’s new hero, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, rides into view in a jeep. Accompanying him are Admirals Hoover and Turner, and Generals Holland Smith and Harry Schmidt. Shortly after the Stars and Stripes are placed in position over the Atoll, the electrifying news from Truk comes in, and a fuller significance is given to this marvelous victory in the Marshalls.

CAPTURED NAZIS
While action see-saws at the Italian front, hordes of Germans are shown marching in one direction—to our rear. They are prisoners of the Yanks and of the French. Nor is their stubbornness diminished by the sight of numerous German dead.

EISENHOWER AND STAFF
General Dwight Eisenhower, General Montgomery, Air Marshall Tedder and other of the “invasion staff” are viewed shaping history at their planning table.

WAREHOUSE RAZED
Nazi bombers set off a fire which consumes one of our warehouses in Italy. In a tight squeeze, a truck full of G.I shoes are saved.

250,000 PENNIES
The Boy’s Clubs of America earned $2,500 at odd jobs here and there. Without fan fare the youngsters turn over the funds to the American Red Cross for the purchase of a deluxe Mobile Canteen.

BLACK PARATROOPERS
Fort Benning, FA.—Graduation jumps are made by the first all-colored parachute unit, who have just completed their training.

GLASS HOUSES
Toledo, O.—The home of Tomorrow is filled with mirrors which lend dimensional depth to the interior, and set off to particular advantage any beauty who reclines in their range.

ROLLER SKATING SHOW
Roller skating really goes big time as a huge skaters’ review is staged for a capacity audience in Madison Square Garden. The beauty and ease with which things roll along, will please you.

B17’S OVER ROME
Flying Fortresses fly over Rome, then blast selected outlying districts, in another of their precision raids.

SHOO, SHOO, TONY
A wizened Italian boot black polishes a Yank’s shoes. The tip is so astounding to the old timer that he becomes a Bert Lahr, Joe Brown, and Ed Wynn, all rolled into one. They guy’s funny.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44003)

THE WAR AT ANZIO
The nature of things which are taking place in Anzio, the beachhead just below Rome, is revealed to us.
Anzio is seen to be a thriving coastal city, which serves as an excellent base for the Allies. We see Yanks prowling around looking for trouble, and they pass Nazi corpses, in many places. Then hordes of able-bodied Nazi prisoners are shown parading to concentration points. Intelligence officers interview them and size them up, then we shift to hospital scenes. Wounded Nazis are receiving expert Allied medical attention, and some of them are receiving blood plasma. Bomb explosions and find that ships in the harbor are receiving a terrible bombing. Ack ack lustily replies, and a Nazi plane plummets down, in flame and smoke.
Allied tanks come into the scene—then they rumble on, in their efforts to enlarge this beachhead.

CAPTURE OF KEIV
Russia’s armies roll on. Stalin’s dependence on artillery is dramatically demonstrated as huge batteries of guns roar into action against Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine. Russian infantry creeps into the outskirts of the metropolis, which the retreating Nazis had put to the torch, and Soviet tanks speed into the city, with the populace shrieking its welcome. Returning native women wail in anguish at the murder and the atrocities which have been committed by the enemy. But Kiev is captured.

VICTIM THANKS YOU
Sue Ann, a juvenile infantile paralysis victim, limps to the camera to thank all moviegoers for their contributions in the recent drive.

HOTEL DISASTER
Halifax, N.S.—3:00 A.M. fire awakens 150 service men sleeping in the local K. of C. hotel. A spectacular fire follows, which leaves snow covered embers mutely standing, as reminders of the horrible disaster.

PBM’S OVER RIO
A squadron of Uncle Sam’s PBM Martin “Mariner” planes goes on active anti-submarine patrol off the scenic coast of Brazil.

SHANGRI-LA A REALITY
Virginia—A dream comes true as this huge aircraft carrier, built by war stamp purchases, is christened by Jimmy Doolittle’s wife. The ship is so big it has to have drag weights, to prevent it crashing across the river.

BENNINGTON LAUNCHED
Brooklyn, N.Y.—An ultra-modern launching of an ultra-modern flat-top for the U.S. Navy. Water is admitted into the flood gates of a building dock, and the ship rises off the keel blocks. Then Mrs. Mass of Minnesota promptly applies the bottle to the prow of the vessel.

NATIONAL AAU MEET
MAdison Square—Hurdles and high vaults and a thrilling 1,000 yard run, all combine to set up one of the best track meets in years.

AMERICAN NURSES ABROAD
Italy—American nurses “smile through” in bogged down Italy. They set up their cots, line up for chow, have time for their mascot puppy—then out comes the lip stick.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44004)

MAC ARUTHUR’S VICTORY IN THE ADMIRALITIES
General Douglas MAcArthur, after 19 months of creeping warfare, is seen on the bridge of a plunging flagship, heading into one of the boldest moves of his South Pacific campaign. And a new type of landing operation is up for trial—dependence is to be placed on surprise, rather than on pulverizing naval bombardment. Los Negros Island, in the Admiralties, is sighted, and the 5-inch guns of Uncle Sam’s destroyers bark into action. Low flying bombers carefully drop their bombs, then race away. Landing barges are chugging ashore, filed with the unmounted ranks of the U.S. 1st Cavalry.

SHIP OF TWO CITIES
Quincy, MASS.—Hull of U.S.S. “Springfield,” a 10,000 ton cruiser, is jointly sponsored by Miss McCurley of Springfield, Ill., and Mrs. Bertera of Springfield, Mass., as the ship is named for both cities.

VENIDA LEAGUE HAIR DO’S (Exclusive)
N.Y.C.—Appropriate hari do’s for women’s various activities of the present day are presented. Stealing first attention is the “7th Column,” a lacquered pompadour, which is designed to insure hair safety for war plant workers.

SCRAP PAPER UTILIZED (Exclusive)
Whippany, N.J.—Huge paper mill of McEwan Bros. shows how scrap paper is re-processed into boxboard to provide packaging for war shipments and essential civilian goods.

R D X
Ottowa—Canada announces successful production of R D X, the most powerful military explosive in the world. Dramatic tests force T N T to take second position.

‘THE COMPOSITE WING”
Southwest China. – Young Chinese aviators, under joint Yank and Chinese leadership, are visited by Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek. This air group is a nucleus for the growing air strength against Japan proper.

BLIMPS IN FORMATION
In California, they do it the hard way again. U.S. Navy training blimps are flown in precision formations, despite their unwieldiness.

BOMBING OF LONDON
While London rocks to ack ack fire, Nazi bombers start some spectacular fires in the metropolis. Populace takes it manfully—and is visited by the King and Queen.

KIDS BY THE SCORE
KENT, WASH.—Wilber Arketa and wife, fresh from their missionary work in Alaska, bring 20 assorted children, ranging from 2 to 18 in age, into the States with them. Adoption completed, they plunge into the vegetables, And they all acknowledge that Arketa is their daddy.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44005)

S.S. “GRIPSHOLM” ARRIVES IN N. Y. C.
The Swedish exchange liner is first spied, as a cameraman’s delight cutting through New York harbor. The rails are crowded with Americans—all overjoyed at being in home waters again. She docks and ambulances roll away with thirty-five wounded soldiers. Then the six hundred and sixty-two repatriates from German internment camps come ashore. WE see S. Pinckney Tuck, excharge d’affairs in Vichy, then Douglas C. Mac-Arthur (the General’s nephew), approaches with his canine pet. The Despecher family of Brooklyn are singled out in another crowd of returning Americans. Then Ralph Heinzen of the United Press seizes our microphone and gives an intelligent analysis of internal conditions in Germany today. Stalingrad was the turning point, he states. Germany began losing the war with that defeat—and Hitleer started losing prestige.
Happy passengers, the Gripsholm brings in, and happy news.

PRE-INVASION MANEUVERS
Great Britain—General Eisenhowe, Air Marshall Tedder and General Montgomery view the tons of supplies which have accumulated—then they join the troops who are engaging in mass maneuvers. Piat guns destroy tanks, new machine guns spit into action from tanks, and masses of tanks give off salvos of artillery fire. Overhead, huge formations of transport planes sail into view and hundreds of parachute troops literally fill the sky. The Generals are satisfied.

ITALIANS EVACUATED
Thousands of helpless native refugees are rounded up by the Allies, placed in trucks and shipped aboard LST boats to Naples. Others stream out of Cassino and join them. AMG supplies of canned meat and beans bring smiles, especially to the blank-faced children.

FASHIONS FOR KIDS (Exclusive)
N.Y.C.-Jane Engel takes over the Oval Room of the Ritz-Carlton as she exhibits her exceptional styles for bys and girls. The clothes become the kids and the kids become the clothes.

YANKS IN TRAINING
Atlantic City, N.J.—The World Champion Yankees open their training with the largest problems they have faced since they lost Miller Huggins. But things look plenty rosy to Manager Joe McCarthy.

GIANTS WARM UP
Lakewood, N.J.—Mel Ott’s Giants plunge into their pre-season training with gusto, as Gus Mancuso performs some fancy tricks with the “Tools of the trade.”

BIG LEAGUE TENNIS
Madison Square Garden—Cadet Jack Kramer pairs with Alice Marble to down Lt. Don Budge and Mary Hardwicke by a 6 to 4 score, after latte pair had been beaten in singles by the first two players.

SUNSET RANCH RODEO
Los Angeles, Calif.—A mighty fine old-fashioned rodeo, pardner. Everything is lovely, excepting for them Brahma steers—they give a guy the most rip-snorting feeling in his northern part, as he plots his general course southward.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44006)

U. S. TASK FORCE DESTROYS JAPS
Our cameras open on a huge task force. War ships plunge through the waves, and a liberal sprinkling of big, graceful aircraft carriers races along. Truk has just been abased by a similar task force. The goal for this force is Saipan and Tinian Islands, in the lower Mariansas (only 1,500 miles S.E. of Tokio). The Japs roar out to meet us. Hundreds of our carrier-based planes are awaiting their onset—and the killing drum fire of a staggering number of American ack ack guns starts taking its toll of the skulking Japs. They plummet into the sea like meteors. Some of them explode under water, adding fire works to their death at sea. And secondary explosions are caused as huge Jap bombs are flung upward by the sinking Jap planes. The sky is clouded with flak bursts, and streaked with tracer bullets. Box score—29 Jap planes are shot out of the sky.

YANKS DAYLIGHT RAID ON BERLIN
We accompany one of the 2,000 American plane formations that are bringing ruin and panic to Berlin.
Miles of vapor-streaks are trailing after the huge Flying Fortresses, winging through the frigid sky. Crews are “on oxygen.” Then Berlin is sighted and the bombs start cascading downward. The scene below is like a field of mushrooms. Flak comes up, and one of our motors goes dead. We head back to Blighty. Some ships drop flares announcing wounded aboard, and instant medical care is waiting, when the ships roll to a stop. Colonel Mumford interviews some of the other participants in the raid. They give their crisp, spicy version of this one, and ask for return assignments.

CARIBBEAN VISITOR
A giant U.S. Army transport lands at a Caribean base and out steps—Eleanor Roosevelt—on a good-will mission in this vital defense area.

H.M.S. “BATAAN”
New South Wales – Mrs. Douglas MAcArthur very appropriately launches this defiant new Australian destroyer.

NAZI PRISONERS WORK
Michigan—Nazi prisoners of war volunteer for forest duty in the north woods. Warmly clothed, they work like beavers. Then they devour their food, and return to the recreation rooms for checkers, ping pong and music by a German band.

AUZZIE RODEA
Brisbane – In these diggings, the Diggers (colorful, exotic natives) engage the Yanks in a rodea. You grabs a brone, and you’re spilled, you grabs a cow, and you’re spilled, you grabs a bull, and you’re ingloriously unseated. And it all happens down under.

RUBBER FROM THE SEA
Fortaleza, Brazil—Native fishermen ask no questions as they haul in bales of valuable rubber wafted to their shores by sea currents in which Nazi blockade runners had been sunk.

IRELAND ON PARADE
Fifth Avenue—The lovely Irish take over on St. Patrick’s Day. O’Brien and Kelly were there. Doran, LaGuardia and Sweeney, too. Sure the harp got a bit wet, and some of the lads wobbled a bit—but wasn’t it a lovely day? Yes it was.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44007)

WAR OF EUROPE
This is a pictorial explanation of the recurring phrase—“American medium bombers were out in strength today, bombing objectives on the invasion coast.” Marauders of the U.S. 9th Air Force, based in England, are shown taking off. Over the continent, they literally fly through paths of flak, which are bursting “plane high.” Flak helmets are adjusted . . . and airports in Holland are sighted. Tons and tons of bombs are spilled on these Nazi aerodromes, with marvelous effect. We race home and watch a belly landing of a damaged ship which is piloted by a 19-year-old youngster. This raid definitely cuts down Nazi bombing power, and life in London becomes more tenable.

WAR IN THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD
Every single minute of every day and night which is lived in the Anzio beachhead, is lived within range of Nazi artillery. Despite this pall, the Fifth Army carries on valiantly. We show the day-to-day activities of the many army units that are in there. Air Forces, Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, Engineers, Ordnance, Infantry and others. It is a stark picture of rugged manhood performing assignments under terrible war conditions.

WAR IN BURMA
Exemplifying the highest type of American military leadership, Lt. General Stilwell sends his Chinese army on the march. “Vinegar Joe’s” army gets supplies by parachute, while the Japs are relying on rafts and elephants. Lt. Colonel Seagrave displays fortitude and ability of the highest order in attending the wounded. And cub planes fly the seriously wounded out, to recuperative havens.

DELMAN CARVES SHOES (Exclusive)
N. Y. C. – Delman, designer of deluxe shoes, turns out wooden-soled “fun shoes.” The uppers are so ecstatic in their variety and attractiveness that they turn the heads of the models –who in their turn—cause many a head to turn.

PIRATES TRAIN (Exclusive)
Muncie, Ind.—Frankie Frisch sends his Corsairs into a spirited conditioning program, with Truett Sewell showing the rookie flippers, how to flip.

5-YEAR-OLD ACE
Seattle, Wash.—When Alvin Austin wants to fly, he puts on his aviator’s outfit, gets into his quarter horsepower backyard plane, and whirls about at the dizzy speed of 14 miles per hour. And the neighbor kids turn green with envy.

REDS GET READY
Bloomington, Ind.—The Cincinnati Reds loosen up their rusty muscles by running, batting, throwing—and believe it or not—by doing the Conga.

CARDINALS WORK OUT
Cairo, Ill.—Pepper Martin enlivens proceedings for the National League champions as he returns to the Cards. Prognosticators are carefully watching this animated team.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44008)

ADVANCING IN THE ADMIRALTIES
General Mac ARuthur stated to his troops in the Admiralties—“it is imperative that we hold this position against any attack.” We watch LST boats, bristling with Yanks, scrape to a stop at water’s edge, in Los Negros. Supporting their advance, naval guns blast into action, and damaging hits are recorded.
Our infantry advances and we see scattered Jap corpses. Manos airfield is reached, and the action livens. Our wounded are hastily brought out as the Medical Corps springs to their aid. Transfusions are given and the surgeons operate in field tents. Jap reinforcements from nearby islands enter the battle, then we stumble unto one of the starkest scenes of this war. Piles of Jap corpses, in grotesque positions are discovered. A high percentage of them are victims of the fanatical Jap self-destruction rite—Hara Kiri. Yank hand grenades and machine guns exterminate the remaining Japs. Los Negros, Mamote airfield and the valuable Manos airstrip are taken, and General MacArthur’s orders are carried out.

PARAPAKING IN BURMA
Huge C-47 Troop Carrier planes drop parachute-bales of food to isolated units, from low levels, with Norden bomb sight accuracy. Elaborate smoke or cloth panel signals reveal the presence of Allied troops, whereupon transport crews heave and kick the bales overboard, out of their tail-assembly’s way. A dramatic of Yank air supremacy playing an effective role in the Burma drives.

PRESS PIX WINNERS
N. Y. C.—Press Photographers hold their annual exhibit and Governor Dewey distributes the prizes. Exhibit is crowded with choice news pictures and some excellent novelties.

NURSES DECORATED
Guadalcanal—Flight nurses are decorated with the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Clusters for their heroic work in the tropical outpost.

CARBINE GRENADES
Fort Benning, GA.—U.S. Army reveals a mystery weapon—a grenade attachment for the .30 caliber carbine which increases the destructive power of a U.S. Carbineer in numerous ways.

M-8, AUTO-TANK
U.S. Army discloses another secret weapon—a 7-ton, high speed, 6-wheel, armored truck, with a “turtle top,” armed with a 37 mm. cannon and a machine gun. Ford Motors mass produces these vehicles, then submits them to the punishing ‘proving ground tests.’

JULIANA INSPECT
Curacao, New Guinea.—Not to be outdone by America’sFirst Lady, Princess Juliana travels to this south American state, to visit the Dutch subjects there. The glory which is Holland’s is much in evidence.

BATTLING KELLY
Sergeant Charles Kelly of Pittsburgh accumulated a variety of weapons in Italy, then singlehanded, in one day’s fighting, he killed 40 Germans. General Mark Clark rewards this hero, by personally decorating him.

ST. JOHNS 47, DE PAUL 39
Madison Square Garden.—The National Invitation College Basketball Tournament comes to a smashing close as St. Johns upsets De Paul, and all pre-game calculations, by punching out a 47-39 win, in finals.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44009)

U. S. VICTORY AT TRUK
The U.S. Navy makes history as a huge task force assembles to attack the highly publicized “impregnable fortress of Truk.” Planes zoom from expansive carrier docks, and before long, Truk is observed, stretched out below like a diagram on a drafting table. Cocky Jap interceptors bear in for the attack—and they are blown out of the skies, by uncanny machine gun fire, and clouds of rising anti-aircraft fire. Then our planes dive on acres of grounded Jap planes and riddle them to Kingdom Come. They dive on oil tanks and spew lead streams into them, until they burst into flames. In the harbor, freighters are split in two and destroyers are destroyed, as the craft are zealously strafed and bombed. Back on a carrier, we watch two damaged U.S. Navy planes land—one comes in on one wheel, and from the other, a seriously wounded pilot is carried away. Over 200 Jap planes are destroyed, forty vessels are sunk or badly damaged, and Truk is proved vulnerable to superior American equipment and men. What a “sweet day” for the U. S. Navy.

G.I. FLORAL WEDDING
Orting, Wash.—When the fields of daffodils burst into bloom in Puyallup Valley, they cast such a spell on Sergeant William Melnick and “Wae” Clara Owens, that their marriage takes place, right in the flower fields, with scores of G.I.’s and millions of flowers forming their court.

“NO DEPRESSION”
Milwaukee, Wisc.—Wendell Willkie reviews huge “balloon” parade typifying local citizenry’s determination that no depression shall follow the present war.

IN THE CATACOMBS
Nettuno Beachhead—An amazing system of subterranean caves are used by the Allies for operational headquarters. It is a military city underground.

MEDICAL CORPS IN ITALY
Hospital trains, completely equipped, and staffed by U.S. Army nurses, care for American wounded who are in transit to the rear, for final cure.

PRISON SHIP CRACKS UP
Italy—Headed to Naples from Anzio, an LST boat (being utilized as a prison ship) piles up on a pile of jutting rocks. Dramatic rescue scenes precede the ship’s final splitting up, and plunge into the deep.

6-TON BOMBS
The R.A.F. reveals its latest bomb, which is labeled – “the most remarkable engineering feat of the war.” It dwarfs a mere 1,000 lb. bomb, when placed alongside it.

SHELLS OF PAPER
Italy – French 105-mm. howitzers bombard Nazi lines with weekly newspapers printed in German, that delineate the true situation on the Russian front, Hollow shells do the trick.

RUINS OF ST. ELIA
Ruined masonry acts as a sorry background for the broken hearts of sobbing Italian natives, who dejectedly huddle their children and themselves into U.S. trucks for transfer out of the battle zones.

L.A. RODEO
Los Angeles Coliseum, Calif.—This scene of the ’32 Olympics is graced with prancing beasts and falling star-riders. Then the Brahma bulls mop up the ground with the boys.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44010)

MOUNTBATTEN’S FORCES IN BURMA
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Commander-in-Chief of the Southeast Asia Armies, sends his forces down Burma’s western shores in a master plan to regain Burma from the Japs. We get a bird’s eye view of the difficult terrain, then we watch the Tommies slither through the jungle brush, as their tanks blaze forth with supporting fire. Formations of Allied bombers spew their bomb loads on the resisting Japs and British artillery and machine guns finish the “clearing out” job. The infantry cautiously advances to carefully examine the prizes of their victory. Heaps of Jap guns and helmets and other war materiel are taken, together with Nipponese battle flags and communications. Shrinking Jap prisoners are hauled out of fox holes, and the seriously wounded are littered to the rear for treatment. All of which forms an interesting insight into the difficult task which confronts the Allies in reconquering Burma, a land infested with Fifth Columnists and spies.

EISENHOWER AT SANDHURST
General Dwight Eisenhower, Invasion Chief stationed in Britain, is guest of honor at graduation exercises at England’s military college—Sandhurst. Precision marching precedes Eisenhower’s presentation of “Sam Brown belts” to the three top men in the class. Then in traditional slow cadence the cadets march along, as the adjutant leads them on a prancing charger. The West Point alumnus solemnly salutes the military pomp and ability which is England’s.

BRAZILIAN WAR FLAGS
Sao Paulo – In the presence of General Dutra, and General Moraces (who will command the B.E.F.), the First Division of Brazil’s Expeditionary Force receives two National flags from the hands of the women who sewed them.

FIGHTING ARAB SHEIKS
Arabia—The British have welded a tough native fighting unit, which utilizes mechanized equipment that matches their fighting zeal—in ruggedness and dogged determination.

MARINE HIGH JINKS
Pacific Outpost—The U.S. Marines 2nd Division rests from its conquest of Tarawa and its victories in Guadalcanal, to enjoy a huge barbecue with all the trimmings. Then the 10,000 men form a human amphitheater to observe a divertissement a rodeo.

WACS FORM CROSS
Fort Oglethorpe, GA.—3,000 WACS assemble in mass formation as a giant human cross if formed, symbolizing the meaning of Easter to them.

KID STUFF
Philadelphia—A proud kangaroo performs a zoo miracle as she presents twin kids to her doting keeper. But she has only one pouch, so thereby hangs one of the kids—while the other one, in his sweater, is fed with an eye dropper.

A HAT FOR HEDDA (Exclusive)
Hollywood—Olsen and Johnson, having heard that Hedda Hopper is seeking a new spring bonnet, set out to oblige the fair lady. A menagerie parade ushers them in, each modeling the ultra, ultra in chapeau ridiculousness. Hedda selects one, then the boys gush their appreciation.
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