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Synopsis: U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal push back Japanese troops; U.S. Cruiser Boise returns home after sinking six enemy ships; President Franklin D. Roosevelt greets president of Ecuador; Latest pictures of North American Army in North Africa...(read more)
- Date: 1942
- Duration: 00:07:52
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: South Pacific, Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal; United States, Washington; North Africa, Casablanca, Algiers; France, Toulon
U.S. Marines On Guadalcanal Push Back Jap Troops
Guadalcanal Airport: a tiny patch of land for which Japan has sacrificed a fleet of warships and thousands of fighting men still bristles with United States bombers. For the forces that control Guadalcanal command the approaches to Australia with full mastery of the skies over the vitally important Solomon Islands. Today, these land-based bombers are leading the way as the combined land, sea and air offensive begins the task of sweeping the Japs from the South Pacific.
No armchair commander, Admiral Nimitz comes all the way from Hawaii to decorate Major General Vandegrift whose fighting marines captured the airfield from the Japs and held it against all odds. Highest honors are awarded officers and men alike. Majors, captains, privates; they've proven themselves in the test by fire. One youngster has ten Jap bombers and nineteen fighter planes to his credit, one of the outstanding records of the war.
These are the men who bore the brunt of the battle. Now with reinforcements newly arrived they're ready to push on.
Marching single file long columns of fighting men stream across the island in pursuit of the enemy. Once the little men of Nippon were in complete control here. Now they're on the run.
Plunging into malaria-infested jungles, the Marines steadily doggedly enlarge their hold on the island. At an advanced base, they enjoy their first rest in weeks. They have the advantage of an uninterrupted supply line and they get nothing but the best.
Marines take no chances on being surprised by roving Jap patrols. Any line may be the front line on Guadalcanal and they dig in as they advance machine guns always on the ready. Artillerymen backup the infantry blasting the Japs from the island.
U.S. Cruiser Home; Sank 6 Jap Ships
The damaged United States Cruiser Boise given up for lost makes port with the most amazing record of the war. The score painted on the bridge: six Jap warships sunk in twenty-seven minutes.
Admiral King commander-of-the-fleet comes aboard to salute and decorate her gallant crew. Against overwhelming odds, the Boise skipper Captain Mike Moran brought his ship through and now the boys are ready to go back for more.
Roosevelt Greets Good Neighbor
With full military honors, Ecuador's President Carlos Arroyo del Rio is welcomed to Washington. Secretary of State Hull is the first to greet the good neighbor from South America who comes to strengthen the ties of friendship.
President Roosevelt personally introduces members of the United States Cabinet to the Ecuadorian chief executive. President Arroyo backs up his sympathy for the United Nations with important coastal and island bases in the Pacific, bases that guard the western approaches to the Panama Canal.
Latest Pictures Of American Army In North Africa
United States troops occupying Casablanca salute General Nogues Governor of French Morocco as he comes to meet the American commander General Patton.
At the Miramar Hotel headquarters of the Western Task Force General Patton and French military leaders agree upon terms of United States occupation, leave the hotel in complete accord.
A so-called Nazis Armistice Commission that arrived two days before United States forces landed is rounded up. Now beneath the bayonets of United States infantrymen they take their exercise.
Down the Mediterranean, barrage balloons protect the French colonial harbor of Algiers against low-level air attack. But sixteen hours after the Americans landed authorities agreed to the city's surrender.
In the Hotel Saint Georges negotiations were completed, French Morocco and Algiers are in Allied hands. General Nogues now allied with the United Nation's British Admiral Cunningham, United States General Clark and General Eisenhower in supreme command.
Italian members of the Axis Armistice Commission who met the same fate as Germans at Casablanca leave the Hotel d'Angleterre carefully guarded by American soldiers. They get a fond farewell from the good people of Algiers.
Now into Algiers pours a steady stream of troops ready for the big push east, fighting men of Britain's 1st Army, veterans of Dunkirk eager for a return engagement with the Nazis on to join forces with Montgomery, their goal to route every Nazis from the soil of Africa.
Across the Mediterranean the French harbor of Toulon became the center of worldwide speculation for here was the homeport of the main French fleet. What would they do? Seventy-five mighty vessels their guns silenced for two and a half years. In them might rest the balance of Allied naval power in the Mediterranean. Suddenly came word the Nazis speeding to take over. From the flag ship of French Admiral Jean de Laborde flashed the order to scuttle the fleet. Nearly the entire fleet was put out of commission only a few undamaged units fell into Nazis hands. Four submarines braved the mine-filled harbor and escaped. In one dramatic stroke patriot crews struck out to avenge the honor of France.
