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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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| NTSC Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| PAL Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| keywords: italy, italian campaign, general mark clark, b-24 liberator bombers, new britain, makin island, solomon islands |
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Synopsis: Heavy Rains Gives Army A Rest In Italy, Bombers Pave Way For Pacific Forces... (read more) |
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Information: 1944 11 min BW |
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This title includes these newsreel stories:
Heavy rains slow 5th Army advance on Italian front. General Mark Clark and his troops eat doughnuts. An army chaplain holds mass amid sounds of artillery, motar, and bazooka fire. Wounded soldiers are treated at field hospital. Nazi prisoners of war marched to the rear.
U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers bomb New Britain paving way for amphibious assault. Makin Island, the Northern most of the Gilbert Islands, is another point of attack. American planes attack Japanese ships trying to bring reinforcements to the island bases. A carrier task force battles Japanese kamikaze planes off the Marshall Islands. Troop reinforcements land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
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