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keywords: b-29 flying fortress, general douglas macarthur, peleliu island, wendell wilkie, tengchung burma, ploesti oil fields |
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Synopsis: B-29 Bombers Slash Deeper Into Japanese Empire, Troops With General MacArthur Advance In Pacific, Combat On Peleliu Island, Allied Soldiers Greeted Warmly By Italian Citizens, The Passing Of Wendell Wilkie, Results Of The Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Chinese Troops Capture City Of Tengchung Burma, Damage In The Ploesti Oil Fields... (read more) |
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Information: 1941 11 min BW |
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Air assault on Formosa; Japan’s great shipping center. B-29 flying super fortress bombers slash deeper into Japan’s Empire.
General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Ninitz plot the Pacific advance. At Morotai Island the Navy supports a new landing by MacArthur’s U.S. 6th Army. Troops wade ashore from landing craft. Soldiers and equipment battle the mud going ashore. Very good footage of MacArthur inspecting newly won Morotai.
Combat Scenes. Under heavy fire men of the 1st Marine Division advance on the Island of Peleliu. Peleliu is on the road to the Philippines.
The Fighting 92nd Division of the 5th Army advances in Italy and are warmly greeted. General Clark visits an evacuation hospital.
Wendell Willkie dead at age 52. Shows Wendell Willkie at the 1940 Republican Convention and with Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek.
Secretary of State Stettinius summarizes the results of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference.
The Chinese 20th Group Army troops capture the city of Tengchung in Burma after intense street fighting. Scenes of the Chinese scalding (storming) the walls of this ancient city.
Captured Axis film show the damage and destruction of the Ploesti oil fields in Romania after bombing by Allied planes.
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