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Military Newsreels: 1943 Issue 7
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Synopsis: British-U.S. Air Mission Inspects Far East Bases; Australia Cheers Reinforcements From America; U.S. Army Fliers Rescued In The South Pacific; New 530-Mile Pipe Line Rushes Oil To Eastern U.S.; New Gliders For Troop Transport Pass Army Test; America Hails China's Madame Chiang Kai-Shek; Allied Airmen Strafe Fleeing Nazis In Africa...(read more)
- Date: 1943
- Duration: 00:09:21
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Far East, China, Washington DC, Australia, Melbourne, South Pacific, United States, Texas, Illinois, Mt. Vernon, Washington's Tomb, New York City, Chinatown, North Africa
British-U.S. Air Mission Inspects Far East Bases
Straight from the Casablanca Conference to India come high ranking British and American officers to plan new blows against the Japanese. Britain's General Sir Archibald Wavell, American General Stillwell, General Arnold and General Somervell planning the strategy of the far east.
At a United States base in China, General Arnold, head of the air force, confers with the famous General Chennault, leader of the legendary Flying Tigers.
Stopping off at Chungking for talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek they inspect a guard of honor and are welcomed to the capital by China's Chief Of Staff, General Ho Ying-chin.
Then back in Washington their big army transport comes to earth after its globe girdling flight. United States Chief Of Staff Marshall welcomes home his generals. The success of their mission will soon be felt by the enemy.
Australia Cheers Reinforcements From America
Australia cheers reinforcements from America. U.S. troops and nurses parade in Melbourne.
Its summer in Australia and the people of Melbourne led by men of the Royal Australian Navy pay tribute to new legions of Americans here to fight for the island continent. American nurses head the latest contingent from the States. To American sailors already here they're like a message from home. United States fighting men from thousands of miles across the sea, reinforcements for General MacArthur as he prepares to take the offensive against the Japanese in the South Pacific.
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01:02:19:01
American nurses, U.S. Soldiers, and U.S. Saliors parade in Melbourne Australia.
U.S. Army Fliers Rescued In The South Pacific
United States Army bombers taking off just before dawn upon a mission of mercy. The plane (flying fortress) of an American general (Brigadier General Nathan F. Twining) with fourteen of his crew is missing somewhere in the South Pacific. For six days searching parties scour the ocean, the shark infested waters of the Coral Sea.
Suddenly an observer signals that he sighted something, a mere speck down upon the ocean. He's right. Its a tiny covered rubber life raft, and another. The Army bomber cannot land on water so the happy crew radios for the Navy.
In a matter of hours two Consolidated PBY Catalina Flying Boats are on the spot. An Army Air Force cameraman records the dramatic rescue. Heavily loaded the giant Navy flying boats head for home. All hands aboard safe and uninjured.
Back at the base, sunburned, starved and blistered, the general and his men are carried ashore. A chocolate bar, a can of sardines and a sea gull was all the fifteen men had to eat for six long days. Happy ending to what might have been another tragedy of the sea.
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01:03:28:02
Aerial view of sea rescue of Brigadier General Nathan F. Twining in 1943.
01:03:44:29
Consolidated PBY Catalina Flying Boat in flight.
01:03:48:29
Shows a sunburned, starved and blistered, General Nathan F. Twining carried ashore from PBY Flying Boat rescue plane.
New 530-Mile Pipe Line Rushes Oil To Eastern U.S.
Engineers open the valves that will start petroleum rushing across the Eastern United States at the rate of three hundred thousand barrels a day. Built as a war measure to relieve tankers needed for trans-ocean shipments the giant pipe stretches from Texas to Illinois. Five hundred and thirty miles, an unbroken line of pipe long enough to connect Paris and Barcelona. Railroad tank cars loading oil direct from wells halfway across the American continent.
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01:04:50:00
Steam locomotive starting off pulling railroad tank cars.
New Gliders For Troop Transport Pass Army Test
The genius of the American automobile manufacturer, Henry Ford, turns to the mass production of gliders. Giant Army transport gliders made almost entirely of spruce and plywood. Wings are fitted as the finished ships move along an assembly line that never stops.
Pilots to man the new silent fleets of invasion craft are constantly training. Each glider built to carry a striking force of men fully equipped for battle. The nose lifts up and a scout car (Jeep) complete with crew is taken aboard.
Towed by a transport plane the glider goes aloft. Three thousand pounds of motorless aircraft taking to the sky on its own wings. A ship nearly as large as a medium bomber. A pilot releases his line cutting loose from the tow plane and he's on his own.
Down to earth for a perfect three point landing. Cargo and transport gliders proving their efficiency as new swift silent weapons of invasion.
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01:05:10:12
Ford Motor Company's glider manufacturing defense plant at Kingsford Michigan, also referred to as the Iron Mountain Plant.
01:05:38:00
Line of Waco CG-4 Gliders after assembly.
01:05:57:03
Jeep (Scout Car) is loaded into Waco CG-4 glider.
01:06:11:03
Transport plane takes off pulling a glider.
01:06:46;03
Glider landing from glider pilot point-of-view (pov)
America Hails China's Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
To historic Mt. Vernon, once home to America's George Washington, comes Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Here with President and Mrs. Roosevelt Madame Chiang places a wreath upon the tomb of America's first president. Simple elegant tribute from the first lady of China.
New York City gives Madame Chiang her first big public welcome to America. Thousand gathering at City Hall to cheer the American educated woman who had plead with her husband to lead China to victory. Chinese-Americans from all walks of life come to hear her and to do her honor.
From City Hall she visits New York's famous Chinatown just a few blocks away. Gala flag bedecked streets, signs of welcome, greet her on all sides. Future generations of Chinese will be told for many years of the day Madame Chiang Kai-shek rode through the streets of New York and won the heart of all America with her courage and her charm.
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01:07:13:28
Image of Mt. Vernon, plantation home of George Washington.
01:07:24:08
Image of President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt and Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Allied Airmen Strafe Fleeing Nazis In Africa
Flying with British and American pilots in pursuit of Rommel's fleeing Nazis forces an Allied cameraman records actual aircraft strafing attacks on fleeing Nazi tanks and trucks in the desert of North Africa.
Attacking by sea as well as by land an Axis supply ship is sighted heading for Tunisia. One more cargo of supplies that will never reach the Nazis as death rains from the sky.
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01:08:35:27
RAF Bombers in flight over North Africa.
01:08:47:28
Hands only view (shot), pilot uses thumb to press machine gun firing button in strafing attack on ground targets.
01:09:41:01
Hands only image, pilot fires machine guns in strafing attack on ship.
