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Military Newsreels 1944 Issue 18
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keywords: wwii, australian troops, new zealand troops, british troops, us troops, air rescue, sled dogs, italian merchant marine, anti-aircraft gunnery practice, aircraft carrier uss shangri-la cv-38, major general jimmy doolittle, launch of doolittle raid
Synopsis: Allies Fight WWII On Many Fronts, Sled Dogs Rescue Pilot In Frozen North, Italian Naval Cadets Learn Seamanship, Anti-Aircraft Gunners Use Rockets As Targets, British And US Sailors Have Fun In Snow, Aircraft Carrier USS Shangri-La CV-38 Is Launched (2005-11t.txt)...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:08:30
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Italy, New Guinea, Unknown
Allies Fight WWII On Many Fronts
Australian jungle fighters struggle through some of the world's most rugged combat terrain as they close in on Japanese troops in New Guinea. Australian troops load and fire mortar in combat in New Guinea. New Guinea Natives hauling supplies up steep mountain trail.
On the Italian Front New Zealand troops fight in the snow in the Italian Alps. New Zealand troops uses donkey to carry supplies. Wearing white camouflage clothing New Zealand troops advance up a snow covered mountain.
Aerial view of beach at Anzio scene of bitter fighting. German prisoners POWs are still surrendering. Some of the German prisoners are from an elite German Luftwaffe armored division called the Herman Goring Division. U.S. medics and doctors treating German POWs. Arrival of U.S. Army nurses at the front to care for the wounded. Nurses draw army rations and gear. German Luftwaffe plane is shot down in attack on Anzio beachhead, trailing smoke the German plane crashes into ocean. CU of bullet riddled German Luftwaffe plane shot down at Anzio.
Sled Dogs Rescue Pilot In Frozen North
Doctor parachutes from plane and joins search party. Downed pilot walking on snow shoes made from twigs. Pilot receives medical treatment. Dogs and sled with wounded pilot are transported across a ravine by zip line.
Italian Naval Cadets Learn Seamanship
Italian naval cadets train on a sailing vessel to become officers in the Merchant Marine Fleet. Naval Cadets climb sailing ship rigging.
Anti-Aircraft Gunners Use Rockets As Targets
Rockets are used as practice targets for antiaircraft gunners. Tracer shells (bullets) fired at night.
British And US Sailors Have Fun In Snow
British and American sailor compete in a tug-of-war in the snow. Sailors try skiing and races on snow shoes.
Aircraft Carrier USS Shangri-La CV-38 Is Launched
President Roosevelt decorates Major General Jimmy Doolittle in White House office as Mrs. Doolittle looks on. Image of General Doolittle and his wife.
Flashbacks show B-25 Mitchell bombers on the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet CV-8. General Jimmy Doolittle and crews of the B-25 aircraft shown with bomb in FG, CU of bomb. B-25 Mitchell bombers take off from carrier USS Hornet on Tokyo bombing raid April 18, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt when asked to reveal the base from which the B-25 bombers took off answered Shangri-La. - a mythical place but great propaganda.
Mrs. Doolittle christens the new aircraft carrier Shangri-La. The new aircraft carrier Shangri-La slides down the slipways ways into the water.
