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Military Newsreels: 1943 Issue 1
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Synopsis: War News From The South Pacific; Army Takes Over U.S. Universities; Navy Fliers Test Free Balloons; Clark Gable Wins Air Gunner Wings; U.S. Paratroopers Jump Into North Africa...(read more)
- Date: 1943
- Duration: 00:08:56
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: South Pacific, Port Moresby New Guinea, Guadalcanal, United States, Yale University, California, Tunisia North Africa.
War News From The South Pacific
A hospital ship with United States Army Nurses arrives in Port Moresby, Papua New Ginea, to care for troops wounded in the furious fighting for New Guinea. More serious cases are sent back to the Australian mainland. Well dressed and equipped for service in the tropical climate the American Nurses, accompanied by Australian nurses, called Sisters, come ashore to staff field hospitals near the front.
Across the Coral Sea a motor torpedo boat brings a cargo of Japanese aviators captured in waters off Guadalcanal. These prisoners of war are lucky. The Japs have lost more than eight hundred planes in five months of fighting in this area alone. Here, as in all fronts, the United Nations practice humane treatment of prisoners.
An interesting sidelight from the Solomons, United States Marines counting a trunk full of genuine Japanese money captured during one of the enemy's attempts to invade the islands. Nearly a hundred thousand yen, enough coins and currency to pay an entire division of Japanese soldiers.
Now in an offshore patrol boat our cameraman goes with the General Staff on an inspection of Guadalcanal's outer defenses. Directing the campaign the officers arrive at their advance positions just as artillery opens fire. Powerful 105mm and 155mm howitzers blasting the Japanese from their last positions on Guadalcanal.
Shot List:
01:00:44:14
Wounded Australian and American soldiers loaded onto hospital ship by Australian medics.
01:01:03:00
American Nurses and Australian Sisters (Nurses) disembark ship at Port Moresby.
01:01:22:17
Captured Japanese pilots (POWs) on-board PT Boat.
01:01:52:06
Shows humane treatment of Japanese POWs.
01:02:43:06
Loading and firing of 105mm and 155mm howitzers, artillery guns and howitzers.
Army Takes Over U.S. Universities
The doors of America's great universities swing open to the Army. At Yale University, one of the biggest and oldest, 3,000 officer cadets come to complete their training for the Army Air Force. Today, America's halls of learning resound to the tread of marching feet. Young men are turning from the studies of the liberal arts to become students of war. Army teachers replace head masters in cap and gown. "Machine Guns Have No Conscience" says the writing on the blackboard. Words these future lieutenants may well remember. The huge dining hall of Yale University now turned into a super mess hall for the Army.
No less eager to do their bit American college women adopt the same physical training program the Army prescribes for its men. For more rigid exercise and body building they practice on a snow covered obstacle course. Purely recreational sports are discouraged while the country is at war. Their job is to gain strength and health for the duties they will be called on to perform.
Shot List:
01:03:45:22
Instructor uses machine gun to instruct Military Officers in classroom at Yale University.
01:04:01:29
College women exercise in gym and on snow covered obstacle course.
Navy Fliers Test Free Balloons
Navy dirigible pilots get their first lesson in lighter than air craft from hydrogen filled balloons. Here they walk a big bag out for a test flight over California. Today, small patrol dirigibles are proving highly successful in spotting enemy submarines. The balloon crew makes a practice landing. Expert navigation steers the huge ball to just where they want it to come to earth. Free balloons have no military value but they do give student pilots training in air currents and maneuvering so necessary in flying a Navy dirigible. A ripcord opens the fabric of the balloon and the big bag collapses to be folded for a future flight. The shadow of a dirigible is already a menace to submarines.
Clark Gable Wins Air Gunner Wings
At a United States Army school in flexible gunnery sharp shooters learn to use aerial machine guns. Training their fire upon small discs hurled by a machine into the air. From a gun turret of a model bomber they shoot from every position. Trying to hit the tiny moving targets is the best training possible. When they pass this test they're real flying sharp shooters.
Honored graduate of such a school is a man known to cinema fans the world over, Clark Gable. Refusing a higher rank he volunteered as a private and worked his way up. Now he's awarded the silver wings of an aerial gunner, a First Lieutenant in the Army Air Force. Clark Gable, movie star, playing his greatest role. Manning a fifty caliber gun he will soon be in action against the enemy.
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01:07:22:22
Clark Gable firing twin 50 cal machine guns.
U.S. Paratroopers Jump Into North Africa
Fifteen hundred miles from England American parachute troops rest on a landing field in Algeria, after making the longest airborne invasion of the war. Accompanied by British aerial infantry, who well know the North African countryside, they board giant United States C-47 Dakota transport planes to seize an important military objective in Tunisia.
The C-47 transport aircraft are escorted by squadrons of fast P-38's, American fighter planes. Part of the trip is over the Mediterranean. Coming in over the coastline they're nearing enemy held territory. Directly above the objective and the order is "bail out," that means jump. Landing in force they take the vital North African aerodrome at Souk-el-Arba in Tunisia just five minutes before German planes bent upon the same mission were driven off.
Another field from which united nations air forces are conducting their combined offensive to drive the Axis from the shores of Africa.
Shot List:
01:08:13:15
Nose art on C-47 plane reads Big Jig.
01:08:14:00
C-47 Dakota aircraft takes off.
01:08:48:05
Paratroopers jump or bailout of C-47 Dakota transport planes.
