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Military Newsreels: 1943 Issue 13
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Synopsis: U.S. Bombers Strike Japanese Bases In Aleutians, Coast Guard Mans A Danish Windjammer, Sailor repays Blood Bank, Canadian Women Aid In War Effort, Brazilian Navy Guards South Atlantic Coast, British Bombers Blast German War Factory In Netherlands...(read more)
- Date: 1943
- Duration: 00:09:11
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Kiska Island, Aleutians; China, Hong Kong, Kowloon Naval Base; United States; Canada; Brazil, South Atlantic Coast, South America; Europe, Eindhoven, Netherlands
U.S. Fliers Bomb Two Jap Bases
United States bombers take off from bases in the arctic to blast the remaining Japanese on Kiska Island in the Aleutians. Over the enemy base, tons of huge projectiles drift lazily to earth guided to their mark by the famous American bombsight. When the big eggs land they explode like clouds and one more Jap base is wiped out.
Somewhere in China, another American air force under General Chennault maps a raid on Japanese held Hong Kong. Fighter planes escort the bombers as the squadron flies high over Asia.
Hong Kong and they're after the Kowloon Naval Base. The Chinese cameraman who made these pictures knows it well. Hong Kong is his native city. Now he returns to help rid it of the Japs.
Back to their base in China, safe and sound, American pilots get a warm welcome. They blasted the Japs from Hong Kong to Kiska.
Danish Windjammer Joins Coast Guard
Aboard this old Danish sailing ship, young United States Coastguardsmen get their first lessons in seamanship and navigation; how to hoist the sails of a square-rigger as she races before the wind. Wooden ships helping train iron men to handle vessels of steel.
Sailor Repays Blood Bank
In America, patriotic citizens are giving their blood to save the lives of their soldiers and sailors. One half million pints have been donated and the Red Cross Blood Bank is accepting voluntary contributions at the rate of two million a year.
This young gunner's mate, whose own life was saved by eight transfusions, insisted on repaying the bank for a part of the lifeblood he borrowed. Here is real patriotism, his life and his blood for his country.
Canadian Women Lead World In Making Munitions
Women workers of Canada hold down the jobs of their men who have been called to war. Here in the world's largest munitions plant eighteen thousand French-Canadian women are breaking all records in the manufacture of ammunition. Every day they turn out bullets by the millions; bullets for rifles, automatics and machine guns.
The factory operates its own kitchens. Employs experienced housewives to help prepare nourishing home cooked food. In the lunchroom, fifteen hundred girls are fed in fifteen minutes.
Back to work where eighteen pounders are checked before shipment and every day they test the quality of their work with point blank fire on the proving grounds.
Brazilian Navy Guards South Atlantic Coast
Brazil's shipyards working at top speed, new tonnage being rushed to completion, today this great South American nation arrays not only its arms, food and ammunition against the Axis but takes its place as a formidable sea power in the navies of the United Nations. Every warship refitted, rearmed to meet the test of modern war.
Speedboats leaving on patrol, depth charges lashed to the stern, death to U-boats. Mines to protect the harbors and mine layers to guard strategic coastal waters. Anti-submarine nets are out, floating dynamite to snare any raiding enemy submarine. Brazil with thirty-six hundred miles of open coast is on guard.
Nazi War Factory Wrecked By R.A.F.
Light bombers of the R.A.F. prepare for a daylight raid on Nazis held territory in Europe; a picture of their objective made by reconnaissance planes before the flight.
Taking off for one of the most daring attacks of the war, they roar over the channel. Now skimming the treetops, they speed across the countryside. Their objective the enormous Philips radio works at Eindhoven in the Netherlands, a factory which supplied much of the radio equipment used by the Nazis army. The lead pilot sights the target dead ahead the largest radio plant in Europe. Remarkable pictures of the R.A.F. bombing the Nazis in broad daylight.
Returning home after one of the most successful raids of the war some were hit by anti-aircraft fire, and one barely made the field, but here is the official picture after the raid. A huge Nazis war plant wiped off the map in less than four minutes.
