The War 1941-1944 Reel-1

Shot List:

00:00:56:01

Scenes of war, destruction, dead, wounded and refugees at Christmas time 1941 inter-cut with images of German soldiers. Animated world map as voice-over names the countries occupied by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. Brief image of Japanese soldiers shouting after a victory. CU image of Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State from 1933-1944.

00:03:10:08

Newspaper press printing newspapers. People buying newspapers at sidewalk newsstand in the 1940s. Japanese Ambassador Admiral Nomura departing plane on his arrival in Washington in December 1941. The Japanese attack on Perl Harbor and the aftermath of destruction.

00:04:22:13

President Roosevelt and representatives of 26-nations at war with the Axis powers at the White House on January 2, 1942 to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.

00:05:58:11

American factories and plants converted to production of weapons and goods of war. Removal of machine tools for production of consumer goods replaced by machine tools to produce weapons of war. Men and women working in WWII defense factories and plants.

00:06:52:00

Lines of American men at the Army Recruiting Stations. Army Recruits training with wooden guns and trucks representing tanks due to shortage of weapons of war. Soldiers training in use of bayonets. The growth of the Allied Armies of the United Nations.

00:08:34:10

The battle for the Atlantic, German U-Boats attacking the Allied supply ships of the United Nations in 1942. German U-Boats (submarines) attacking and sinking Allied ships.

00:09:35:16

The Russian Front in the Spring 1942. Scenes of the Russian “scorched earth” policy, burning wheat fields, destroying bridges, dams, railroads, power plants leaving nothing of use to the invading German Army. Russian refugees fleeing the advancing German army.