Army Navy Screen Magazine 1945 Issue 53 Reel 2

Shot List:

00:00:11;09

Sights and sounds of intense military engagement (fighting) on a smoke covered Island in the Pacific, Marine firing rifle at Japanese gun emplacement, flames from flame thrower seen through smoke

00:00:21;16

At a Burma outpost a soldier in tree watches for a supply plane. Men prepare smoke signal for supply plane. C-47 aircraft makes supply drop at low altitude

00:00:54;13

Shows B-29 Superfortress of the 8th Army Air Force on bombing mission over Germany. LS Flight of B-29s with fighter escort, flak bursts in the air, ground explosions of bombs. B-29 aircraft in flight with high altitude contrails

00:01:20;07

Private Snafu animated cartoon featuring malaria carrying mosquitoes as "dive bombers" attacking a sleeping Private Snafu through a hole in his mosquito net

00:02:06;19

U.S. planes bombing and strafing an island in the Marshall Island group. 4th Marines and 7th Infantry on a battle scarred Pacific Island. Several explosive charges are set and detonated. Shows surrender of a Japanese soldier. Shows Japanese prisoners of war POWs under Marine guard

00:02:53;10

In the settlement of Munda on the island of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific well trained construction engineers (Seabees) builds an airfield or airstrip. Shows construction equipment and men at work. Group of Seabees eating, playing checkers, and writing a letter home

00:03:24;20

Sign reads "Hollywood Canteen". Shows servicemen entering the Hollywood Canteen. Dinah Shore gives a welcome and introduces Lana Turner, Deanna Durbin, and Marlene Dietrich. Shows Judge and Mrs. Hardy passing out snacks. Eddie Cantor singing. Hedy Lamar signs autographs

00:04:39;21

The Honor Albert E. Smith talks about his beloved New York City East Side in wartime. New York City street signs reads Monroe St. & Pike St. People in lower Manhattan working together to help win the war, sewing, making surgical dressings

00:05:29;08

Air-to-air top view of Allied planes with invasion markings in flight (Normandy Invasion). Scene of Omaha Beach, Normandy Invasion. Shows crowds of people listening to news of the Normandy Invasion. Shows people entering church after learning of D-Day. American flag waves in the breeze as school children recite pledge of allegiance to American flag

00:06:29;00

Shows Russian guerrilla fighters attacking German troops

00:07:01;15

Farm life in Iowa in 1944 as a farmer plows his field. With his son in service shows a farmer's daughter plowing a field with a tractor

00:08:04;21

Allied troops on way to Paris. Scenes of the French resistance fighters attack as Germans leave the city. Allied tanks enter Paris on the street through the archway of the Eiffel Tower. Shows the people celebrating the liberation of Paris

00:08:47;16

Footage of the White House, Washington Monument, and Lincoln Memorial. Entrance to NYU (New York University). Passage of the G.I. Bill of Rights by Congress and the principals of the bill is explained. Shows a man working in chemistry lab

00:09:46;17

Shows Bob Hope in a Command Performance USA. Image of J. Edgar Hoover in 1945. Shows raising of American flag on Tarawa