America's Battle In The Solomons

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Synopsis: Latest newsreel pictures of America's battle in the Solomon Islands...(read more)

Date: 1942
Duration: 00:03:31
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: South Pacific, Solomon Islands

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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.