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Military Newsreels: 1942 Issue 5

Public Domain Stock Footage Military Newsreels: 1942 Issue 5

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Synopsis: War In The Pacific Continues, Pan-American Solidarity To Fight Tyranny, Ice Carnival At Rockefeller Center, U.S. Armed Forces Training In Full Force, U.S. Troops Arrive In India...(read more)

  • Date: 1942
  • Duration:00:09:42
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: Pacific Theater, Port Moresby New Guinea, Midway Island, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Guatemala City, Rockefeller Center New York City United States, India, Burma

Military Newsreels: 1942 Issue 5

War In The Pacific!

Shows a troop ship with American and Australians soldiers entering Fairfax Harbor at Port Moresby New Guinea in 1942. A Lockheed A-29 Hudson Bomber of the Royal Australian Air Force escorts ship into port. Shows Australian Troops disembarking from ship. Harbor comes under attack from Japanese bombers. Images of bombs exploding in the water near troop ship. Bombs exploding on land. Australian soldier firing machine gun at attacking Japanese planes. Elevated view of soldiers running for cover.

Battle of Midway Island. The aircraft carrier Yorktown is bombed off Midway Island by Japanese planes, images of smoking flight deck of aircraft carrier Yorktown. Tracer bullets streak across the sky at attacking Japanese aircraft.

Shot List:

01:00:38;00

RAF A-29 Hudson bomber in flight.

01:00:42;22

Views of Fairfax Harbor at Port Moresby New Guinea.

01:01:15;06

Australian soldier firing machine gun at attacking Japanese planes.

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Pan-American Solidarity!

Pan-American solidarity. People of Rio de Janeiro stage a protest against the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWII. Brazilians are inducted en masse into the army in Rio de Janeiro. U.S. and Guatemalan troops parade in Guatemala City.

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Ice Carnival In New York!

Ice Carnival at Rockefeller Center New York City. Stars On Ice featuring Argentina's Milena Lopez. Shows Freddie Trenkler, comic ice skater. Skit of three Army privates on skates.

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Training An Army!

Classroom of U.S. Army Corp Cadets training to be navigators. Shows Cadets in curtain compartments that simulate plane in flight. Cadet board Beechcraft AT-7 Navigator Trainer aircraft. Interior of AT-7 aircraft. Excellent scenes of several Beechcraft AT-7 planes in flight.

Marines exercise, learn to swim and launch boats in the ocean somewhere along the Pacific coast. Large group of Marines plunge into the surf. Groups of Marines launch rubber boats in the surf, no easy task.

Shot List:

01:06:08;17

Scenes of Beechcraft AT-7 planes (aircraft) in flight.

01:06:15;27

Navigation Instructor with Navigator Cadets in training aircraft (plane).

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U.S. Troops In India!

Street scenes of U.S. Soldiers In India. Soldiers watch snake charmer. War materials and equipment are unloaded at a port in India. Tanks by train, supplies by camel caravan on way to China. Close-up of camel pulling a loaded wagon or cart. Plane being loaded with supplies for the Chinese. British Indian Troops move up through jungle terrain patrolling the Burma boarder. British troops in firefight, mortar is loaded and fired. Shows the rigging of rafts with explosives on the rivers of India. Huge herds of Indian cattle are turned from their pastures to make room for airfields. Scenes of U.S. pilots instruct Chinese Cadets in aerial combat. Transports, bombers, and fighter aircraft take off.

Shot List:

01:07:35;21

Indian snake charmer.

01:08:02;26

Caravan of camels pulling loaded wagons or carts.

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