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Military Newsreels: 1942 Issue 7
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Synopsis: Allied Airmen win new wings; Ready-Made Homes For War Workers; British Sailors Aid U.S. Harvest; Sands Produce Oil In Canada; Nation Hails U.S. Navy Day; Test World's Largest Autobus; America's Battle In The Solomons; ...(read more)
- Date: 1942
- Duration: 00:09:24
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Canada, Montreal Stadium, Northeastern Alberta; United States, Virginia, New York City; South Pacific, Solomon Islands
Allied Airmen Win New Wings
In Canada, Montreal Stadium is the scene of one of war's most colorful ceremonies. The first public presentation of wings to officers and men, graduates of the Great Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Twenty-five thousand people are here to see relatives, friends, brothers, sons become full-fledged fliers.
Each bomber crew receives its wings as a fighting unit. Five men: pilot, navigator, gunner, wireless man and bombardier trained as a team. Heroes of air battles with the German Luftwaffe are quests of honor, Air Minister Power making the presentation of wings.
Past the reviewing stand, all branches of Canada's Armed Forces march in stirring salute to their new comrades in arms, tribute from the Dominion to the gallant young men of the R.C.A.F.
Ready-Made Homes For War Workers
American industry solves the housing problem in war factory areas with ready made, or prefabricated, homes. Windows are insulated, and with assembly line techniques the walls spring up like magic, all painted and ready for use.
In truck loads of two or three houses they're rushed to wherever needed. One, two and three bedroom homes can be setup in eighty minutes. There goes the roof, and here's the finished product.
Kitchens are modern and equipped with the latest appliances. From bedroom to living room, it's a model home. Where war workers need housing, whole communities like this spring up overnight.
British Sailors Aid U.S. Harvest
British sailors in Virginia while their ship is being refitted spend shore leave helping nearby farmers harvest their crops. Back to the soil after months at sea is a real holiday.
For English farm boys racking hay and gathering corn seems just like home. They accept no pay but the American farmers give them the time of their lives, all the beer and food they can hold.
Sands Produce Oil In Canada
Geologists tapping the mineral rich region of Northeastern Alberta Canada develop a ten thousand square mile range of oil sands, sands so filled with oil that engineers predict a potential yield of two hundred and fifty billion barrels. Dynamiters blast barely twenty feet below the surface, like mining coal above the surface steam shovels pickup huge chunks of the rich deposit for processing at a nearby plant. Steaming hot water separates the globules of oil from each tiny particle of sand. The oil rises to the top the sand goes to the bottom. Three hundred barrels of oil from four hundred tons of sand and they just tapped the surface.
Nation Hails U.S. Navy Day
United States sailors swing down New York's Fifth Ave as the nation celebrates Navy Day, a day in honor of America's famous fighting president the late Theodore Roosevelt. Men of the Army pay tribute to the men in blue as all America salutes the fleet that's now in action on the seven seas. Red Cross nurses, units of the British Navy, passing in review. Today the nation's battle cry is "the Navy, first line of attack."
Test World's Largest Autobus
The world's largest autobus built to carry one hundred and seventeen passengers with speed and safety. Turning corners, it's so long the upper deck swings away from the lower. Used for transporting workers to war plants the giant bus carries a load equal to twenty-three automobiles an important saving in gasoline and tires.
America's Battle In The Solomons
Convoys of troops and equipment steaming full speed through the South Pacific, latest newsreel pictures of America's battle for her hard won bases in the Solomon Islands. An American scout plane crashes into the sea. Boats speed to the rescue and the pilot is brought safely ashore. Now destroyers come up to cover troop landings and the Marines go in under the guns of the Navy. Swarming across the beach, they come to reinforce comrades who landed in the first attacks. United States forces made the Japs pay heavily every foot of the way. Here is grim mute evidence of the price they paid, bodies of enemy dead awaiting burial in the palms among which they fell.
Fresh supplies and ammunition to strengthen defending garrison are moved in captured Jap trucks. Captured Jap machine guns and field pieces are tested. A Japanese flamethrower left behind is tried out by a marine. Japanese equipment used in building a vitally important airfield now repairs it for American use. Well-fed and well-treated Japanese prisoners willingly work. In contrast to widespread Japanese propaganda, they seem to be talking quite freely. The men dejected weary apparently are much in need of a bath.
Japanese planes leading desperate counter attacks drop incendiaries on the airfield, anything to keep the Americans from using it. Calmly efficiently, ground crews remove gasoline and planes from the danger zone. Speedily the field is repaired the runways kept open and United States carrier planes arrive to take up the fight for mastery of the air. Fighters that have downed more than four hundred Jap planes in this one are alone.
