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Military Newsreels: 1943 Issue 8
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Synopsis: Two New Cruisers Join U.S. Navy Fleet, Canada Speeds Construction Of Huge Power Plant For War Effort, U.S. Red Cross Ships Care Packages To P.O.W.s, Hollywood Holds Its Annual Academy Awards, Fire Damaged Forest Yield Bounty Of Timber For War Effort, Royal Australian Air Force Crews Learn Ground Warfare, Italian Children Living In Ethiopia Sent Home By British, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Visits U.S. Alma Mater, Allied Offensive In New Guinea A Success...(read more)
- Date: 1943
- Duration: 00:08:55
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Canada, Saguenay River, Hollywood, California, United States, Ethiopia, Wellesley College, New Guinea
Two New Cruisers Join U.S. Navy
Another United States cruiser, the Biloxi, goes down the ways. The third ship of her class to be launched from this one shipyard within the year, months ahead of schedule too. Typical of the job American shipyards are doing on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts.
At another shipyard the sponsors party stands in pouring rain for the second christening. And the heavy cruiser Astoria goes to join the ever growing United States fleet. Named for the old Astoria, which dealt death to the Japanese in battles off the Solomon Islands, the new Astoria is one of the most powerfully armored cruisers afloat. American sea power striking never-ending blows at the Axis.
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01:00:34:21
USS Biloxi (CL-80) launched at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock.
01:01:06:06
USS Astoria (CL-90) launched at William Cramp and Sons Shipbuilding Co.
Canada Rushes Huge Power Plant For War Work
Harnessing the rushing waters of the Saguenay River, Canada is completing a mammoth war project capable of producing more power than America's mighty Boulder Dam. Despite the icy cold Canadian winter workmen are winning a gigantic battle against time and the elements. Already they are a year and a half ahead of schedule. Here goes forty-one tons of TNT.
By the end of the year the development will be generating more than a million horsepower, power for the Dominion's great aluminum industry. For when these power lines begin to hum Canada will lead the world in the production of aluminum. Three quarters of a billion pounds a year for the United Nations war effort.
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01:02:08:00
Massive dynamite (TNT) explosion.
01:02:29:25
Scenes of hydro-electric generators, electrical transformers, electrical high voltage transmission towers and lines.
U.S. Red Cross Ships Boxes To War Prisoners
In America, Red Cross volunteers are busy packing boxes of food and medicines for Allied prisoners of war. Boxes containing vitamins, canned meat, coffee, cigarettes, matches, soap. This three masted Portuguese bark (ship) manned by a neutral crew is one of several ships especially chartered for the voyage. Its safe passage guaranteed by all belligerent nations. A cargo of mercy for Allied soldiers and civilians wherever they are.
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01:02:46:00
Red Cross women volunteers pack standard POW packages in WWII.
01:03:01:22
Three-masted barque (bark) sailing ship at dockside is loaded.
Hollywood Stars Win Awards For Year's Best Films
Once a year Hollywood honors its brightest stars. Tonight they also salute the twenty-seven thousand (27,677) men of the cinema industry now serving in the Armed Forces. Now Gary Cooper voted the best actor for 1941 awards the prize for 1942. The winner Jimmy Cagney for his Yankee Doodle Dandy. The lovely Joan Fontaine, Irish born Greer Garson wins the award for her unforgettable Mrs. Miniver. The new king and queen of movie-land.
Burned Forests Yield 13 Billion Feet Of Timber
Ten years ago a disastrous forest fire swept through four hundred square miles of this vast Western American timberland. Thousands of great fir trees remain standing stripped and blackened by flames. Today lumbermen are reclaiming these fire blasted trunks. Cutting them and getting them to market. Powerful equipment and skilled lumberjacks turn the wasted and once forgotten land into beehive of activity. Giants of the forest reclaimed from the dead now on their way to serve the war needs of the nation.
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01:04:02:23
Scenes of burned forest, aftermath of massive forest fire.
01:04:20:08
Loggers or Lumberjacks use power saw to fell large tree.
01:04:55:23
Log truck transport logs to sawmill.
R.A.A.F. Crews Learn To Fight Like Commandos
Smart young ground crews of the Royal Australian Air Force RAAF on parade. And now these same young men dashing through the forest, swinging on ropes over obstacles and across ravines. Learning to fight like commandos. All the rough and tumble of primitive jungle warfare, just in case they need it. A simulated attack, Japanese style, and the Australian airmen show the enemy they're as tough at hand-to-hand combat on the ground as they are in the sky.
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01:05:21:20
Royal Australian Air Force crewmen take Commando training.
Italian Children In Ethopia Sent Home By British
At an East African port wives and children of Italians captured in Ethiopia are sent home by the British. Italian ships which brought out the colonists to found Mussolini's colonial empire now take them back under the protection of the International Red Cross. For many of the youngsters it will be their first view of the mother country. The United Nations have no war with women and children.
First Lady Of China Visits U.S. Alma Mater
No stranger to American Universities is Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Twenty-six years ago as Mayling Soong (Soong May-ling) she was graduated from this same Wellesley campus with highest honors. Today as the wife of China's great leader she returns to meet undergraduates. American girls just like those with whom she attended school. Wellesley is proud and honored to welcome home its most distinguished graduate.
Allied Offensive Smashes Japs On New Guinea Front
MacArthur advancing through the almost impenetrable jungle for the attack that ended all organized Japanese resistance on the Papuan peninsula of New Guinea. Guns commanding a narrow beach, the yanks move into position to cut off the Japanese from the sea. Blasted from foxholes, from carefully prepared positions fifteen thousand Japanese were killed in this one campaign.
A Red Cross field hospital cares for Allied wounded. Fortified with modern sulfa drugs to prevent infection most casualties will recover. Thus the first American offensive to be transported and supplied entirely by air power moves on to new theaters of operation. Army surgeons sterilizing their precious equipment under the most primitive of conditions have won a battle too. Their brave efforts have saved many lives, relieved much suffering.
Along the trail a Papuan hut run by friendly natives specializing in steaming tea. A welcome spot for battle weary men. These Australian and American jungle fighters of General MacArthur have won a real victory. And what's more they proved that they can beat the Japanese in any kind of warfare.
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01:07:25:00
United States and Australian troops advancing through the jungle of the Papuan Peninsula in New Guinea.
01:08:00:00
Close-up soldiers firing 1919A4 .30 calibre light machine gun.
01:08:13:07
Bodies of dead Japanese soldiers.
01:08:16:27
Allied wounded taken to Red Cross field hospital.
01:09:00:07
Natives serve tea to soldiers at a Papuan hut in New Guinea.
