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Military Newsreels 1944 Issue 1
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keywords: wwii, italian front, 5th army, mud, artillery barrage, general mark clark, pacific theater, b-24 liberator bombers, new britain, makin island, japanese kamikaze attack
Synopsis: Mud Slows 5th Army Advance On Italian Front, U.S. Bombers Pave Way For Liberation Of Pacific...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:09:40
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Italian Front, Pacific Theater
Mud Slows 5th Army Advance On Italian Front
Allied 5th Army in Italy fights mud and flood waters in Italy. River flood waters wash away pontoon bridge. Woman Red Cross worker walking through the mud with box of doughnuts. General Mark Clark and his troops eat doughnuts.
An army chaplain holds mass amid sounds of 155mm "Long Tom" artillery guns. LS of direct hit of artillery fire on top of Monte Camino. 5th Army soldiers firing a mortar. Soldier firing a bazooka, a shoulder fired rocket gun. A wounded solder on a stretcher is carried into field hospital from military ambulance. Wounded soldiers are treated at field hospital. Field hospital tent marked with Red Cross on side. 5th Army soldiers advance under fire in Italy. Soldiers move cautiously through the ruins of an Italian town. Shows Nazi German prisoners moving to the rear under guard. Army medics tend to wounded soldiers and civilians.
U.S. Bombers Pave Way For Liberation Of Pacific
U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers bomb New Britain paving way for amphibious assault. Shows map locating the Island of New Britain in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Flight of B-24 Liberator Bombers. CU of B-24 Co-Pilot and Pilot. B-25 instrument panel, CU of pilots hand on aircraft engine control levers (throttles). Various scenes of falling bombs and ground explosions. Aerial view of invasion fleet moving in. Soldiers run from landing craft into jungle beachhead.
Map showing location of Makin Island, the northern-most Island of the Gilbert Islands. Gun camera footage of American planes attacking Japanese ships trying to bring reinforcements to the island bases. American planes attack Japanese airfield on Makin Island. Shows troop ships of General MacArthur United States 6th Army. Shows Lt. Colonel James Roosevelt with other officers on a ship. Soldiers climb down cargo net into landing craft. Amphibious forces storm the beach. Jungle fighting, bodies of dead Japanese soldiers.
Map showing location of Bougainville, Papula New Guinea. Heavy re-enforcements pour into Empress Augusta Bay on the western side of Bougainville to strengthen American positions. Columns of American soldiers advancing toward the front on Bougainville.
Map locating the Marshall Islands in the northern Pacific Ocean. A carrier task force battles Japanese kamikaze planes off the Marshall Islands. CU of anti-aircraft guns firing at Japanese kamikaze planes. View of Japanese kamikaze attack from flight deck of aircraft carrier. Several near misses as Japanese kamikaze planes crash into the sea.
