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Synopsis: Admiralty Islands Campaign, Entwetok In The Marshall Islands Campaign, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Review Flyers, Mass Flight Of U.S. Navy Patrol Blimps, Troops On Leave Visit Taj Mahal And Pompeii, Fighter Pilots Of The U.S. 8th Air Force... (read more)
Attack on Admiralty Islands. Shows an amphibious assault on an island. General MacArthur observes the naval bombardment from the flagship. Shows soldiers storming ashore from a landing craft. General MacArthur congratulates the troops.
In the north on Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands mechanize forces win another important Japanese outpost. Shows artillery firing and tanks moving. Native islanders seek safety under the protection of American guns. Group of soldiers giving the V for Victory sign while holding a bullet riddled Japanese flag.
At a Chinese airbase Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek inspect Chinese flyers trained in the United States.
U.S. Navy’s new patrol blimps in mass flight over California. 10 dirigibles are used to train blimp pilots.
Service men on leave visit the Taj Mahal and the ruins of Pompeii.
Shows fighter pilots of the U.S. 8th Air Force Fighter Command in Europe. Planes are armed, pilots climb into planes, engines started, and planes with belly tanks take off on another bomber escort mission. Planes have German kills painted on side of planes. Gun cameras record aerial combat scenes. There is an excellent group scene (footage) of the airmen posing on and around one of the planes,
