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Military Newsreels 1945 Issue 8
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keywords: wwii, pacific theater, china, stilwell road, graduation ceremony chinese pilots, war production, bomb factory, war dogs, european theater, bingen germany, malmedy massacre, war crime
Synopsis: Badly Need Supplies Reach China Using Stilwell Road, Chinese Military Training In U.S., Wounded Airmen Still In The Fight At Aircraft Factory, WWII War Dogs Return Home To Civilian Life, Fighting Continues In Germany - Malmedy Massacre Victims Removed...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:07:10
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Germany, China, Belgium
Badly Need Supplies Reach China Using Stilwell Road
General Daniel I. Sultan congratulates General Louis Pick on the completion of the Stilwell Road. The Stilwell Road, China's new lifeline, is a combination of the new Ledo Road, built by the U.S. Army Engineer Corps, and the Chinese-held portion of the old Burma Road. The Ledo-Burma Road was renamed the “Stilwell Road” by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in recognition of General Joseph W. Stilwell. Sign on rear of army truck reads “First convoy on Ledo Road”. Convoy starts to move. Shows the convoy crossing a 2-mile long bridge built by Army Engineers. Shows the convoy traveling the Ledo-Burma Road.
Chinese Military Training In U.S.
Chinese ordnance officers studying modern production at Northwestern University. Shows Chinese airmen (Air Cadets) graduating from their training in the U.S. The Air Cadets receive their Commission as flying officers of the Chinese Army.
Wounded Airmen Still In The Fight At Aircraft Factory
Convalescing veterans of the Army Air Force, their battle wounds healed, go to work in a bomb factory.
WWII War Dogs Return Home To Civilian Life
Shows training of Army dogs to be aggressive. Shows soldier and war dog on guard duty. Shows dogs at a “vacation camp” where the dogs learn to play again. Shows a German Shepard veteran war dog that has been discharged and returned home.
Fighting Continues In Germany - Malmedy Massacre Victims Removed
Scenes from the Western Front of the Allied winter offensive in WWII. Allied infantry seen advancing in snow. Brief view of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill at the Yalta conference. Animated map showing "pincers" closing in on Germany. The British 2nd Army closing in at Hungen,Germany taking more and more German prisoners.
Shows soldiers of the U.S. 7th Army recapturing the strategic town of Bingen, Germany. U.S. Army combat photographer filming U.S. troops breaking into buildings. Bodies of dead German soldiers lying in the snow. Residents of Bingen emerge from cellars and other hiding places to be evacuated behind the lines.
Families are driven to safety in American Army trucks. At Hagenau, Germany, American troops, under counterattack by German forces, blow up a key bridge.
Aerial views of Malmedy, Belgium, where bomb craters line the terrain. The Malmedy massacre. At the Baugnez crossroads troops of the U.S.30th Division uncover snow-covered bodies of American prisoners of war who were killed by their German captors . German prisoners of war, mostly from the 5th Fallschirmjager Division (parachute division), with hands raised, look on apprehensively.
