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NVS0173 Subject: World War II (WW II) Tape #2 Source: BMT NOTE: TIME CODES LISTED BELOW ARE CORRECT, BUT THE TIME CODE JUMPS PERIODICALLY THROUGHOUT THE TAPE!!! 03:00:00 BMT ISSUE 651A (11/27/41) THE FIRST LORD'S FORCEFUL WORDS (PARTIAL DUB) BOB HOPE ON MARQUIS TITLE OF THE ODEON THEATER AND MARCHING BRITISH AND INDIAN TROOPS WITH BANDS (SENDING THE BOYS OFF TO WAR TYPE STUFF) 03:01:22 BMT ISSUE 652A (12/4/41) LIBYA OFFENSIVE - TOBRUK CARRIES ON THE GALLANT DEFENDERS OF TOBRUK HAVE MADE HISTORY BY WITH STANDING A THIRTY THREE WEEK SIEGE. WHEN THE BIG PUSH INTO LIBYA BEGAN THE TOBRUKERS BROKE OUT AND ARE NOW SET TO JOIN UP WITH THEIR COMRADES IN THE EIGHTH ARMY. SHOT OF A PATROL CUTTING THROUGH BARBED WIRE. TWO MEN WITH A BREN GUN IN A GUN PIT AUSTRALIANS COMING TOWARD CAMERA. SHELLS BURST ALL ROUND AS AUSSIES LIE LOW. SHOT OF 25 POUNDERS FIRING. ALSO TRENCH MORTARS. AUSSIES CARRYING MAN ON STRETCHER. AA GUNS FIRING AT PLANES WHICH ARE INVISIBLE. PLANES BOMB OUR VEHICLES. 4.5'S IN ACTION. MORE BOMBS EXPLODING IN THE DESERT. SHOT OF GERMAN PLANE BLAZING. MEN OF TANK CORPS COMING OUT OF DUG-OUT. THEY GET INTO TANK. SHOT OF MATILDAS - BREAT [SIC] AHEAD POSITION. VARIOUS OTHER SHOTS OF TANKS. SHOT OF ARMOURED CAR MOVING. MEN RACING ACROSS THE DESERT. CU OF THREE AUSSIES COMING TOWARD CAMERA. CU OF HEAD OF AUSSIE WITH HAT ON. THREE OTHER CU OF MEN WITHOUT HATS. 03:03:00 BMT ISSUE 653A (12/11/41) PACIFIC BATTLEGROUND THE TREACHEROUS ATTACK ON AMERICA AND BRITAIN BY JAPAN HAS MARKED A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. ALREADY FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN FRENCH INDO-CHINA THE JAPANESE HAVE INVADED MALAYA AND BOMBED SINGAPORE. JAPAN BOMBED THE AMERICAN NAVAL BASE AT PEARL HARBOUR IN HAWAII. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PREDICTS THAT AMERICAN SEAPOWER WILL WIN THE DAY. JAPANESE EMPEROR REVIEWS TROOPS. SHOTS OF THE ARMY. SHOTS OF THE JAP FLEET. REFUGEES IN CHINA. ARP EXERCISES IN TOKYO. SCENES IN INDO CHINA. BURMA ROAD BOMBED. SHANGHAI BOMBED. MANOEUVRES IN MALAYA AND SHOTS OF BROOKE POPHAM. AERIAL SCENES OF SINGAPORE AND MANILA. LIBRARY SCENES OF THE US FLEET AND THE NORTH CAROLINA AT GUNNERY PRACTICE. ROOSEVELT SPEECH IS HEARD OVER LAST SEQUENCE. SCENES OF WINANT ARRIVING AT THE EMBASSY WERE TAKEN BUT NOT USED. GOOD SHOT DESTROYER IN ROUGH SEA. LIBRARY CLOSE-UP OF ROOSEVELT. MAPS OF THE PACIFIC WAR ZONE INCLUDING: MALAYA, SINGAPORE, THAILAND, INDO-CHINA, HAWAII PEARL HARBOUR, HONOLULU, THE PHILIPPINES, MANILA, JAPAN MANCHUKUO, RUSSIA JAPAN TIBET, DUTCH EAST INDIES, AUSTRALIA. 03:08:25 BMT ISSUE 654A (12/18/41) EMPIRE TROOPS FOR HONG KONG DEFENCE (PARTIAL DUB) HS HONG KONG HARBOR, TROOPS, LS BRITISH SUBMARINE, TORPEDO BOAT FIRES TORPEDO AND TORPEDO BOATS RACING THROUGH THE HARBOUR PAST A CHINESE JUNK, CANADIAN TROOPS ARRIVING AND PREPARING EMPLACEMENTS, BIG SHORE DEFENSE ARTILLERY GUNS FIRING. 03:09:39 BMT ISSUE 654A ROMMEL AT BAY - LIBYAN ADVANCE (12/18/41) (PARTIAL DUB) SCENES FROM THE LIBYAN FRONT AT THE START OF OUR OFFENSIVE AGAINST OUR TANKS WERE SEEN LOCKED IN BATTLE WITH THE GERMAN PANZERS, AND FULL AIR SUPPORT WAS GIVEN BY THE RAF. THE FIRST PART OF THE FILM WAS SHOT DURING THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE OF SIDI REZEGH WHEN WE STORMED THE ENEMY POSITION. BRITISH MECHANIZED INFANTRY, INFANTRY ADVANCE IN THE DESERT, ITALIAN AND GERMAN PRISONERSC OF WAR, BRITISH TANK AND BURNING GERMAN PANZERS, BODIES, TANK ADVANCE, MORE PRISONERS. 03:12:42 BMT ISSUE 655 (12/22/41) AMERICAN REACTIONS TO PEARL HARBOR FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT WAR SPEECH USA AND JAPAN. (A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY SPEECH TO CONGRESS). SHOTS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET AND PLANES FLYING OVERHEAD. NOMURA AND KURUSU LEAVE THE STATE DEPARTMENT AFTER THEIR LAST CONFERENCE. CROWDS GATHER IN TIMES SQUARE TO WATCH THE ILLUSTRATED NEWS SIGN. STEPHEN EARLY HOLDS A PRESS CONFERENCE. HULL, STIMSON AND KNOX ARRIVE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. KEYWORDS: SABURO KURUSU; MR CORDELL HULL; HENRY LEWIS STIMSON; FRANK KNOX; ADMIRAL KOCHISABURO NOMURA; 03:14:50 BMT ISSUE 656 (12/29/41) REVIEW OF THE YEAR 1941 A LOOK BACK OVER THE YEAR WHICH SAW THE WAR EFFORT IN THE FACTORIES INCREASE. THE ATLANTIC CHARTER MEETING OF CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT, THE LOSS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE REPULSE. THE ROYAL NAVY CLAIMED THE BISMARCK AND BRITISH UNITS RAIDED THE LOFOTEN ISLAND. JAPAN LAUNCHED WAR AGAINST AMERICA AND BRITAIN. OPENING MONTAGE - FACTORY SCENES, MEN AND WOMEN WORKING, ENTERING AND MACHINE WORKING. STEEL WORK MONTAGE - FURNACES - MOLTEN METAL. BATTLESHIPS LINE AHEAD. BOMBERS IN SKY - TANKS COMING OUT OF FACTORY - LOADED ON SHIPS. SHOTS FROM 'HUN AT WAR' ATTACKING BLOCK-HOUSE. RUSSIANS FIGHTING. BRITISH AND RUSSIAN TROOPS MEET IN IRAN. RAILWAY SUPPLIES IN IRAN - CRATES UNLOADED AT BASRA. SHOTS OF ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL AT CHURCH SERVICE. CHURCHILL ON THE PRINCE OF WALES. BATTLESHIPS AT SEA. GOOD SHOTS OF THE ARK ROYAL & HOOD. BISMARCK BLOWN UP. BATTLESHIPS GUNS FIRING. DESTROYERS - CORVETTES IN CONVOY. TORPEDO TRAVELLING. DEPTH CHARGES EXPLODING. DESTROYERS TURNING IN LINE. LONDON BLITZ SCENES. HAVOC TAKES OFF. RADIOLOCATION WITH THE ATS. AA GUNS FIRING.WELLINGTON TAKES OFF. BOMBING UP STERLINGS. HURRICANES. PRISONERS IN FRENCH CONCENTRATION CAMP. MARSHAL PETAIN. QUISLING. MUSSOLINI. GREEK ARTILLERY FIRING. YUGOSLAV PROCESSION. THE V SIGN BEING CHALKED ON WALL. SHOTS FROM THE RAID ON LOFOTEN AND SPITSBERGEN (COMMANDOS). BRITISH TROOPS LOOKING AT THE MEMORIAL AT SIDI BARRANI. ITALIAN PRISONERS MARCHING OFF. HAILE SALESSIE WINSTON CHURCHILL ON TOUR AND GIVING THE V SIGN (HE HAS A DISARMING CHILDLIKE SMILE) . ALSO SHOTS WITH STICK THROUGH HIS ARMS. CHURCHILL ADDRESSING CROWDS FROM BALCONY. REEL ENDS WITH FACTORY MONTAGE. 03:24:20 BMT ISSUE 656A (1/1/42 - IMAGES FROM 12/7/41) JAPANESE ATTACK HAWAII THE WORLD KNOWS THAT THE JAPANESE ATTACKED THE AMERICAN PEARL HARBOR NAVAL BASE WITHOUT WARNING, THESE PICTURES SHOW SOMETHING OF HOW THE CIVIL POPULATION SUFFERED. JAPANESE PLANES FLY OVER AND FIRES RAGE IN WAIKIKI. REFUGEES RUN HITHER AND THITHER. AA GUNS FIRE AND THE INJURED ARE CARED FOR. 03:25:05 BMT ISSUE 657A (1/8/42) MR CHURCHILL SPEAKS TO AMERICA (PARTIAL DUB) QUOTE: WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE DO THEY THINK WE ARE. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TOP PERSEVERE AGAINST THEM (REFERRING TO JAPAN). SHOT LIST : WINSTON CHURCHILL ADDRESSING CONGRESS QUOTE AS NOTED ABOVE. HENRY AGARD WALLACE. 03:25:53 BMT ISSUE 658 (1/12/42) SOVIET STRIKES BACK - TO ILLUISTRATE THE RUSSIANS PUSHING THE GERMANS BACK FROM MOSCOW (PARTIAL DUB) THE FACTORY TOWN OF TULA, TO THE SOUTH OF MOSCOW, WAS ALMOST SURROUNDED BY THE GERMANS. IT FOUGHT BACK AND KEPT THE MUNITIONS FLOWING FROM THE FACTORIES. THE SOVIET RMY CONTINUES TO PUSH THE NAZIS BACK WESTWARD. THE FREEZING CONDITIONS ALSO TAKE THEIR TOLL OF THE GERMAN ARMY. IN A TANK HOSPITAL, THE TANKS ARE REPAIRED AND ON THE SNOW COVERED FRONT, TANKS ADVANCE THROUGH OPEN COUNTRY AND THROUGH TOWNS (TULA). CAVALRY IS ALSO IN OPERATION ALONG THE FRONT AND WHEN A TOWN IS TAKEN A SCENE OF DEVASTATION MEETS THE GAZE - SMASHED TRANSPORT, DEAD GERMANS AND LIVING GERMANS AS PRISONERS ARE ALL THAT REMAIN. THE PRISONERS ARE COLD AS THE GUNS BLAZE AWAY. EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD BATTLE MONTAGE. 03:30:12 BMT ISSUE 663A (2/19/42) THE 'NORMANDIE' ABLAZE LYING AT HER PIER IN NEW YORK THE LINER NORMANDIE BURNS FURIOUSLY, FIREMEN FROM ALL OVER MANHATTAN FOUGHT THE BLAZE. THE LINER WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING CONVERTED TO A TROOPSHIP WHEN THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED. THE LINER, NOW KNOWN AS USS LAFAYETTE IS ABLAZE FROM END TO END. FIREMEN TOIL CEASELESSLY AND CASUALTIES ARE TAKEN AWAY ON STRETCHERS. 03:31:52 BMT ISSUE 663A (2/19/42 - IMAGES FROM 12/7/41) PEARL HARBOUR - FIRST FILM OF THE HAVOC INFLICTED ON THAT FATEFUL SUNDAY DEC. 7TH 1941 SHOTS OF BURNING HANGARS AND THE BATTLESHIP ARIZONA ON FIRE. THE AFTERMATH - PLANES INCLUDING A CATALINA LIE WRECKED AND THE UTAH IS UPSIDE DOWN. THE ARIZONA IS PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND COMPLETELY WRECKED WHILE THE OKLAHOMA IS ON ITS SIDE. THE DESTROYERS DOWNES AND CASSIN ARE BADLY DAMAGED. A CRUISER STEAMS OUT PAST THE BLAZING ARIZONA. THE STORY ENDS WITH LIBRARY SHOTS OF THE US FLEET AT SEA, AND IN ROUGH WEATHER - ONE OF THE SHIPS IS THE NORTH CAROLINA. 03:37:46 BMT ISSUE 659 (1/19/42) POLISH-SOVIET PACT SIGNED THE POLISH PRIME MINISTER, GENERAL SIKORSKI, TRAVELLED TO MOSCOW FOR TALKS WHICH RESULTED IN THE SIGNING OF THE SOVIET POLISH PACT. MR MOLOTOV MEETS GENERAL SIKORSKI AS HE ARRIVES BY PLANE. THEN THEY WALK AWAY PAST THE GUARD OF HONOUR. IN THE KREMLIN, JOSEPH STALIN, MOLOTOV AND SIKORSKI ATTEND THE PACT SIGNING. (GOOD FOOTAGE OF JOSEPH STALIN). 03:39:30 BMT ISSUE 683 (7/6/42) MIDWAY ISLAND VICTORY (PARTIAL DUB) CLOSE-UP OF PLANE TO CAMERA. PLANE APPROACHING JAPANESE CARRIER WHICH IS HIT. SHIPS SHELLS BURSTING. SHIPS GUN FIRING. FIRING AT JAPANESE PLANE WHICH FLIES AWAY. BURNING CRUISER. 03:41:11 BMT ISSUE 684A (7/16/42) THE FBI IN AMERICA HAVE ROUNDED UP GERMAN SPIES WHO WERE INTENT ON SABOTAGE THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, EXTERIOR SCENES. SHOTS INSIDE OF J EDGAR HOOVER. SHOTS OF A U-BOAT SURFACING, (PROBABLY FROM THEIR LIBRARY). PERISCOPE CLEAVING THROUGH THE WATER AND INTERIOR OF U-BOAT. STILLS OF DUMP OF EXPLOSIVES. MANY DRAFT-CREDENTIALS AND FORGED CARDS. STILLS OF THE SPIES, WHICH INCLUDED HERBERT HAUPT AND ERNST BURGER, WHO ARE BOTH AMERICAN CITIZENS AND, THEREFORE, TRAITORS AS WELL AS SPIES. 03:42:30 BMT ISSUE 684A (7/16/42) AMERICA'S SEA WAR - USS LEXINGTON SHOTS OF THE BOMBED AIRCRAFT CARRIER ON FIRE, AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA. EXPLOSIONS SHAKE THE SHIP AND SHE LISTS HEAVILY. SOME OF THIS MATERIAL WAS USED AS ILLUSTRATION TO THE INTERVIEW WITH ADMIRAL SHERMAN, PREVIOUSLY FILED. THERE IS A CLOSE UP OF HIM SITTING AT A TABLE MAKING A SPEECH. AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS STORY ARE SHOTS OF AMERICAN SAILORS ABOARD CARRIER AND SHOTS OF THE AIRCRAFT ON DECK. A VERY GOOD SHOT SHOWS AMERICAN SAILORS STANDING ON A BIG GUN IN A ROW. USS LEXINGTON AND JAPANESE CARRIER - SHOT SHOWING THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER, THE SHIP THAT PAID THE PRICE, IN WINNING THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA. SHOTS SHOW HOW THE LEXINGTON LAUNCHED HER PLANES TO FLY INTO BATTLE. SHOT OF THE JAPANESE CARRIER, THAT WAS AS ENEMY LOSS. SHOTS SHOWING AN AMERICAN PLANE BOMBING. THESE ARE FOLLOWED BY OFFICIAL NAVY PICTURES OF THE LEXINGTON TORPEDOED AND BOMBED. ABANDON SHIP IS GIVEN AND THE CREW GO OVER THE SIDE. 03:43:25 BMT ISSUE 686 (7/27/42) MIDWAY - USS 'YORKTOWN' AMERICA SCORES A VICTORY AT SEA, PICTURES SHOW THE ACTION ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER YORKTOWN. THE CARRIER WAS HIT BUT NOT SUNK DURING THE BATTLE. SHOTS OF THE AIRCRAFT TAKING OFF FROM THE 'YORKTOWN' (BOMBERS). GUNS FIRE AT A JAP PLANE WHICH RUNS STRAIGHT INTO A TERRIFIC BARRAGE OF FIRE (AA). STILLS SHOWING THE 'YORKTOWN' ON FIRE AND ALSO SCENES ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER AFTER THE ACTION AT MIDWAY, SHOWING THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE JAPS. 03:45:36 BMT GOOD SHOT SHOT OF AN AIRMAN AVIATOR LIGHTING A CIGARETTE 03:46:02 BMT ISSUE 690 (8/24/42) CONVOY TO MALTA END OF EPIC VOYAGE A CONVOY OF THE ROYAL AND MERCHANT NAVY'S GET MUCH NEEDED SUPPLIES THROUGH TO MALTA. THERE WAS FIERCE FIGHTING WITH THE ENEMY AND THE LOSS OF FOUR SHIPS EAGLE, MANCHESTER, CAIRO AND FORSIGHT. ROYAL AND MERCHANT NAVY SHIPS MOVING ALONG AS SIGNALLER SIGNALS TO AIRCRAFT, AMMUNITION LOADED AS SHIPS FIRE ON AXIS AIRCRAFT, NIGHT SCENES OF SHIPS FIGHTING AND SHOOTING AT PLANES, DAY SCENES AFTER THE BATTLE OF MEN PRAYING WITH CHAPLAIN, ADMIRAL BURROUGH ON DECK AND CLOSE-UPS OF MEN SMILING. 03:49:27 BMT ISSUE 690 (8/24/42) CHURCHILL IN CAIRO DURING HIS STAY IN EGYPT THE PRIME MINISTER INSPECTED MEN OF THE EIGHTH ARMY. CU LIBERATOR WITH CHURCHILL DESCENDING. CHURCHILL IS DRESSED IN UNIFORM OF AIR COMMODORE. CU CHURCHILL CLIMBING OUT OF PLANE THROUGH BOTTOM OF FUSELAGE. CU OF LIB. SHOWING 'COMMANDO' ON SIDE. DESERT THEN FLIES TO BATTLE FRONT IN A LOCKHEED HUDSON, WHERE TEDDER & CONINGHAM ARE WAITING FOR HIM. SHOT OF TEDDER & CONINGHAM WITH BOSTON IN THE FORE, LOCKHEED TAXIES ACROSS AERODROME. CHURCHILL IS CIVVIES SHAKES HAND WITH TEDDER & CONINGHAM. PREMIER IS CARRYING A LARGE FLY WHISK. CHURCHILL SHAKING HANDS WITH THE AUK. CHURCHILL SHAKING HANDS WITH SIR ALAN BROOKE. CHURCHILL GETTING INTO GENERAL AUK'S CAR AND DRIVE AWAY, FOLLOWED BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL STAFF. CHURCHILL INSPECTING VARIOUS TROOPS. CHURCHILL AT ADVANCED LANDING GROUND CU. CHURCHILL SHAKING HANDS WITH CAPTAIN CARTER & WING COMMANDER BERESFORD. CONVOY OF CARS DRIVING OFF, THEY ARRIVE AT GHQ. CHURCHILL ENTERING MESS TENT. INTERIOR SHOT OF CHURCHILL & GENERAL STAFF AT TABLE. CU CHURCHILL DRINKING BEER (CUTS). CU EATING ORANGE. CU TAKING TWO MATCHES TO LIGHT HIS CIGAR. ON HIS RIGHT IS CONINGHAM ON HIS LEFT IS CARTER & TEDDER CU. CHURCHILL LEAVING TENT THROUGH CROWDS OF TROOPS TO CAR 03:53:32 BMT ISSUE 692 (9/7/42) HAWKS OF THE AIR - (GOOD GENERIC FIGHTER PLANE FOOTAGE) IN AUSTRALIA FIGHTER PILOTS FROM THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND MIDDLE EAST DEMONSTRATE THE AMERICAN BUILT 'KITTYHAWK' FIGHTER. LINE OF KITTYHAWKS. OFFICERS TALKING AMONGST THEMSELVES. SHOT OF ENGINES WARMING UP. SHOTS OF PILOTS. KITTYHAWKS TAXIING ACROSS 'AERODROME WITH MECHANICS SITTING ON WINGS. PLANES TAKE OFF INTO & OVER CAMERA. PLANE TAKES OFF SV. PLANES TAKE OFF, SHOTS TAKEN FROM REAR OF ONE OF THE PLANES. GOOD SHOT OF PLANES IN FORMATION ABOVE THE CLOUDS. GROUND STAFF LOOKING UP AT PLANES. LINE OF KITTYHAWKS ABOVE CLOUDS, PEELING OFF TO 'ATTACK'. SPECIAL SHOT PLANE DOING VICTORY ROLL. KITTYHAWK DIVING TO ATTACK, SHOTS SHOW PLANE COMING IN (CAMERAMAN IN ANOTHER PLANE BEING TARGET). PLANES DIVING ON AN AERODROME, SWEEPING ACROSS AERODROME, VERY GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY. PLANE DIVING ON CAMERA. GOOD SHOT OF PLANES ABOVE CLOUDS IN FORMATION. SHOT OF PILOTS INCLUDED: JEFFREY, RAWLINSON, FISHER, TRUSCOTT & WAWN. (THIS FILM IS TO SHOW CAPABILITIES OF THE KITTYHAWK. THE KITTYHAWK, TOMAHAWK & CURTISS P40 ARE THE SAME, EXCEPT THAT THE KITTYHAWK IS A LATER VERSION, BUT EXTERNALLY THE SAME.) 03:55:34 BMT ISSUE 695A (10/1/42) CONVOY TO RUSSIA FIGHTS THROUGH A LARGE CONVOY ESCORTED BY MANY WARSHIPS, MARKS ITS WAY THROUGH TO RUSSIA. THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE SHIPS ARRIVED AT THE DESTINATION IN SPITE OF ALL THE TORPEDOES, MINES AND BOMBS. GENERAL SHOT OF CONVOY AT SEA, SAME INTO CAMERA. DITTO TAKEN FROM SEVERAL ANGLES. SAILOR STANDING ON SIDE OF DECK COUNTING TORPEDO PLANES. SAILORS RUSHING TO 'ACTION STATIONS' MS OF CRUISER SHOWING HEAVY GUNS, ANTI-AIRCRAFT, & POM-POMS. MEN FLINGING OFF COVERS, TAKING AIM, GUNS FIRING. CU POM-POMS. ENEMY PLANES (NOT DISTINGUISHABLE) FLYING THROUGH FLAK, JUST ABOVE SEA LEVEL, TRACER GOING UP. SHOT OF SEA SHOWING ENEMY PLANE JUST VISIBLE DROPPING TORPEDO. GS OF SOME SHIPS ON FIRE. LS SHOT OF SMOKE POURING FROM SHIP. CU SMOKE. SCYLLA ALONG SIDE MINESWEEPER CU AT SPEED, TRANSFERRING US SURVIVORS TO SCYLLA. CU MEN SCRAMBLING ABOARD. ACTION STATIONS AGAIN. SAILORS AT POM-POMS, AMERICAN IN THEIR OWN TYPE OF TIN HELMETS, ASSISTING OUR TARS. CU US SAILOR RUNNING ALONG DECK WITH PP. AMMUNITIONS. COASTLINE AS SEEN FROM CONVOY. LS DESTROYER BACKGROUND NEAR COAST WHICH IS COVERED WITH SNOW. CU BURNETT ABOARD SCYLLA, SITTING IN CHAIR IN WHICH HE IS TRANSFERRED TO A DESTROYER, CU. CU SAME, ALSO SAILORS PIPING HIM ABOARD. GS CU OF OFFICERS ON BRIDGE, SHOWING CAPTAIN MACINTYRE. CU BURNETT. CU BURNETT SITTING ON BRIDGE. CU BURNETT LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS LS. HURRICANE HIGH IN THE CLOUDS. 03:59:16 BMT ISSUE 696 (10/5/42) FLYING FORTRESSES AT WORK - AMERICAN AIR CORPS DAYLIGHT RAIDS. THE AMERICANS RECEIVE A BRIEFING AND CARRY OUT THEIR FIRST OPERATION WHICH WAS OVER FRANCE. FLYING FORTRESSES ON AERODROME. FF TAKING OFF. PAN SHOT OF SAME. 3 TAKE OFFS. FF IN FLIGHT. 3 FF'S IN FORMATION ABOVE THE CLOUDS. FORMATION OF FF'S. 2 ANGLE SHOTS. FORMATION PREPARING TO LAND. CYCLIST RIDING UNDER BOMBER. ENGINEERS & MECHANICS WORKING ON PLANES. 3 SCENES. 2 FF'S CLIMBING. ONE FLYING LOW & FAST OVER AERODROME, BANKING TO LEFT. INTERIOR OF CONTROL ROOM. CU OPERATOR AT WORK - BACK VIEW. CREWS ARRIVING AT BRIEFING ROOM ON BICYCLES. CU CYCLES LYING ON GROUND. SHOT TAKEN FROM REAR OF BRIEFING ROOM, CREWS SITTING BEING INSTRUCTED. CU VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS & CREWS. CREWS ARE IN FLYING KIT. OFFICER SPEAKING TO MEN, HE POINTS OUT A TARGET ON MAP WHICH IS THE WALL. MORE CUS OF CREW. SIGNAL OFFICER SPEAKING TO MEN. CU RUDOLPH E SPEAKING ABOUT FLIGHT. INTERIOR SHOTS OF CREWS LEAVING B ROOM. CREWS OUTSIDE B ROOM, PREPARING TO RIDE OFF ON CYCLES. SEVERAL TRUCKS OF BOMBS, VARIOUS CUS. MEN WRITING ON SAME. TRUCKS OF BOMBS RUNNING UNDER BOMBER. MEN BESIDE BOMBER WITH MACHINE GUN AMMO. ROUND NECK. CU. MACHINE GUN FIRING FROM WAIST OF PLANE, EMPTY CARTRIDGE CASES FALLING ON GROUND. GASOLINE WAGON & BOMBS UNDER WINGS OF BOMBER. LINE OF BOMBS ACROSS AERODROME, GROUND RATHER WEEDY. CU BOMB DOORS OPENING, PLANE ON GROUND. BOMBS UNDER BOMBER, MEN SITTING ON SAME. MEN SITTING ON BOMBS WHICH ARE BEING PULLED TO BOMBERS. JEEP UP TO PLANE, CREW CLIMB OUT, TALKING OVER MAP, PLANE BACKGROUND. CREW CLIMBING ABOARD, THROUGH VARIOUS DOORS OF BOMBER. CU. SIDE (WAIST) OF PLANE, SLIDE-DOOR OPEN EXPOSING MACHINE GUN, WHICH IS POINTED AT CAMERA. PILOT ESCORTED BY TWO RAF REGIMENT SOLDIERS, PILOT CARRYING BAG, HE CLIMBS INTO PLANE, ESCORT CLOSE DOOR. PILOT LOOKING OUT OF COCKPIT, WAVES. SEVERAL PLANES TAXIING OVER AERODROME. CU NOSE OF STINKY FORTRESS. CU FF TURNING COMPLETELY ROUND. CU FF TURNING ABOUT. CU YANKY DOODLE FF. MS OF FF FROM TAIL OF PLANE. LS PLANE TAKING OFF, ALSO LANDING. CREW ON GROUND WAVING. PLANE TAKING OFF. FF TAKING OFF WITH PLANE RIGHT TOP ALREADY IN FLIGHT. FF LANDING, ANOTHER TAKING OFF. CREW OR MECHANICS WITH BIKES, WAVING. FORMATION OF 9 FF'S IN FLIGHT - VG. FF IN FORMATION SEVERAL ANGLES. FF DIRECTLY ABOVE ANOTHER - VG. FF FORMATION PASSES CAMERA. INTERIOR OF PLANE, SHOWING WAIST GUNNER. LOOKING OUT OF BOMB DOORS - VG. DITTO WITH COUNTRY BELOW. CU BOMB DOORS CLOSING. FF IN FORMATION, 3 ANGLES. COMING INTO LAND, ONE, NOW TWO. GROUP OF MEN ROUND CONTROL TOWER LS. MAJOR SPAATZ ARRIVING IN CAR, GETS OUT. SPAATZ WITH EAKER. CU. EAKER WITH CIGAR, CROWD ROUND HIM. FF INTO CAMERA ON GROUND - TAXIING. CU SPAATZ & EAKER SPEAKING INTO MIKE. AERIAL SHOT OF COUNTRY OVER WHICH PLANE IS FLYING, SEVERAL SHOTS. CU FF IN FLIGHT. LS PLANES IN DISTANCE ABOVE CLOUDS. EXCELLENT. MORE AERIAL SHOT OF ENEMY COUNTRY. SV PLANE ON FIRE, SMOKE POURING FROM WING. INTERIOR SHOT OF PLANE. BOMB DOORS OPENING CU. FF IN FLIGHT. LS FORTRESS ON GROUND. MEMBER OF SQUADRON SITTING ON TAIL OF PLANE. GROUP SHOT OF CREW, PLANE BACKGROUND. MORE AERIAL SHOTS OF ENEMY COUNTRY. AERIAL SHOTS SHOWING BOMBS BURSTING ON TARGET. CU CREW GETTING OUT OF PLANE NEAR THE NOSE OF THE PLANE. CU ONE OF THE CREW GETTING OUT OF PLANE (FUSELAGE). CU SAME STANDING BESIDE PLANE. INTERIOR SHOTS - 2 MEMBERS OF A CREW SPEAKING TO AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER ABOUT BOMBING RAID. CU SAME. CU CREW (COMPLETE) & IO, REPORTING. INDIVIDUAL CUS OF MEN. FF COMING INTO LAND (INTO CAMERA) JUST ABOVE LONG GRASS LEVEL - EXCELLENT. GOOD CU OF US FLAG FLYING WITH RAF FLAG. NAMES CAN BE SEEN ON SOME OF THE PLANES. 04:07:08 BMT GERMAN POWS AT NORMANDY. GERMAN FILM OF ERWINN ROMMEL AND GENERAL VON RUNDSTEAD TALKING TOGETHER IN A ROOM. THEY THEN TOUR THE ATLANTIC WALL DEFENSES. LATER BRITISH TROOPS ARE SEEN DISMANTLING THE WALL DEFENSES, GENERAL DWIGHT EIDSENHOWER, GENERAL HAP ARNOLD AND GEN GEORGE MARSHAL TOGETHER IN FRANCE.. 04:09:45 BMT ISSUE 701A (11/12/42) ACCORDING TO PLAN - MIDDLE EAST FIRST PICTURES OF THE NEW ADVANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THE BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF GENERAL MONTGOMERY, MEN FROM ALL PARTS OF BRITAIN AND THE DOMINIONS FOUGHT THEIR WAY FORWARD. ROMMEL IS NOW ON THE RETREAT IN NORTH AFRICA. THIS COMMENCES WITH A FEW SCENES OF NORTH AFRICA, MAP OF MEDITERRANEAN, MIX TO EISENHOWER POINTING TO MAP ON WALL. AERIAL SHOT OF COAST, FADE TO MAP OF EGYPT. SHOT OF BATTLEFIELD, TANKS FILLED WITH PETROL AND LOADED WITH AMMUNITION. GOOD SHOTS OF BARRAGE AT NIGHT. CU BREECH OF ARTILLERY GUN. HITS REGISTERED ON MARK IV TANKS. TROOPS WAIT TO GO OVER THE TOP, CRAWLING ALONG, RUNNING WITH FIXED BAYONETS - EXPLOSIONS. TROOPS ADVANCING THROUGH DUST. BREN GUN FIRED. EXPLOSIONS, TROOPS SHELTER BEHIND WRECKED MARK IV TANK. AERIAL OF ADVANCING ARMY. MITCHELLS AND BALTIMORES IN FORMATION, BOMBS LEAVE BOMB BAY - DOORS CLOSE. ACK-ACK PASSING OUT PLANES. MS CONINGHAM AND MONTGOMERY OUTSIDE TENT. SHERMAN AND GRANT TANKS ON THE MOVE AND FIRING. MINE FIELD BEING CLEARED. HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS BEING BROUGHT IN, PAN OF THE BATTLE, TANKS ADVANCING. CU SHERMAN TANKS ADVANCE, ALSO OF BOMBS LEAVING PLANE AND BOMB DOOR CLOSING. (INCLUDES SCENES OF MINE SWEEPING IN THE DESERT, BERNARD MONTGOMERY, FALLING SHELLS SEEN CLOSE UP THROUGH THE VIEWING PORT OF PERISCOPE OF A TANK IN BATTLE.) 04:17:05 BMT ISSUE 702A (11/19/42) A JAP FLEET SMASHED UNITED STATES MARINES WIPED OUT JAPANESE UNITS DEFENDING THEIR POSITIONS ON GUADALCANAL. US MARINES WALKING ABOUT ISLAND, WHICH IS MOSTLY JUNGLE, LOOKING AT DEAD JAPS.PRISONERS BEING SET TO WORK, VARIOUS SHOTS OF SAME. SHOT OF STERN OF US AIRCRAFT CARRIER, ALSO SHOTS OF DESTROYERS WITH CARRIER IN REAR. DAUNTLESS (?) FLYING IN FORMATION ESCORTING NAVY, OF WHICH THERE IS AN AERIAL SHOT OF SAME. LOOKING OVER STERN OF DESTROYER AT WAKE OF SHIP. ADMIRAL WILLIAM HALSEY CONVERSING WITH NAVAL OFFICERS (INTERIOR) IN CABIN. 04:18:25 BMT ISSUE 703 (11/23/42) NORTH AFRICA - ALLIES CALL THE TUNE (PARTIALLY DUBBED) MOMENTOUS COMBINED OPERATION, WHICH GIVES US CONTROL OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN. LS BUILDING AT CASABLANCA BURNING FROM SHIP, US TROOPS MARCHING ASHORE, LS FIRE IN THE HARBOUR OVER NARRATION THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO FIRE ON THE FRENCH BATTLRESHIP THERE, NATIVES AND CAMEL, US SOLDIERS AND FRENCH SAILORS, US GENERAL AND FRENCH OFFICERS TOGETHER AFTER REACHING AGREEMENT, FLAGS (A US GENERAL WHO MAY BE GEORGE PATTON). 04:19:38 BMT ISSUE 705 (12/7/42) PAPUAN CLOSE-UP OF JUNGLE WARFARE (PARTIALLY DUBBED) AUSTRALIAN NEWSREEL CAMERAMAN DAIMEN PARER TALKS ABOUT THE BATTLE FRONT IN NEW GUINEA. SUPPLIES, NORMALLY TAKEN INTO THE OWEN STANLEY MOUNTAINS BY BEARER, ARE NOW DROPPED BY PARACHUTE. TROOPS ARRIVING AFTER WALKING THROUGH JUNGLE WITH SUPPLIES, DUMPING SAME ON GROUND. REINFORCEMENTS THROUGH JUNGLES VARIOUS ANGLE SHOTS. AERIAL SHOT OF CAMP. CAMERAMAN IN TREE, MORTARS BEING FIRED, SOLDIER FIRING BREN GUN, TWO OTHERS ADVANCING ON HUT, ONE HUT EXPLODES, THEY FIRE THEIR GUNS INTO HUTS AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. SEVERAL SHOTS FROM VARIOUS ANGLES VG & OVER FAST RUNNING STREAMS. STRETCHER BEARERS(SOME ARE NATIVES) CARRYING WOUNDED THROUGH TORRENTIAL RAIN, ARRIVING AT CAMP. TWO SOLDIERS WALKING ACROSS CAMP GROUND IN POURNG RAIN. PAPUANS LOOKING UP AT DOUGLAS TRANSPORT PLANES DROPPING SUPPLIES. 04:23:35 BMT BENITO MUSSOLINI IMAGES SPEAKING AT A PODIUM AND GESTICULATING POMPOUSLY. 04:23:50 BMT ISSUE 706 (12/14/42) RUSSIA STRIKES BACK IN RUSSIA ADVANCES ARE BEING MADE ON THE STALINGRAD FRONT AS THE RED ARMY PREVENT THE NAZI'S FROM TAKING THE CITY. FURTHER NORTH FORCES UNDER GENERAL ZHUKOV HAVE BROKEN THROUGH ON THE UPPER REACHES OF THE VOLGA. FINALLY THERE ARE PICTURES FROM THE NORTHERN SECTOR, WHERE THE CITY OF LENINGRAD HAS HELD OUT AGAINST ALL ATTACKS. ZHUKOV LOOKS AT MAPS (INTERIOR); DUSK SHOT OF ARTILLERY FIRING LS; FORMATION OF AIRCRAFT (RUSSIAN) LS RUSSIAN TANKS & INFANTRY GOING FORWARD. SOLDIERS JUMP OFF TANKS & ADVANCE BEHIND SAME, CRAWL ALONG WITH TOMMY GUNS, THROUGH MUD. SEVERAL RUSSIANS KILLED, SURROUNDINGS BURNING RUINS. GS SOLDIER THROWS GRENADE. . INFANTRY FIGHTING THROUGH A FARM PAST A BURNING LOG CABIN. KEYWORDS: SOVIET UNION; VOLGOGRAD; MARSHAL GRIGORY KONSTANTINOVICH ZHUKOV; IVAN STEPANOVICH KONIEV 04:25:22 BMT ISSUE 706A (12/17/42) RAF BLAST RADIO WORKS - RAID ON EINDHOVEN (PARTIALLY DUBBED) BOMBERS OF THE RAF CARRY OUT A RAID ON THE PHILIPS WORKS AT EINDHOVEN IN HOLLAND. ONE HUNDRED LIGHT BOMBERS WENT ON THE RAID, TWELVE DID NOT RETURN AND A NUMBER OF THOSE THAT DID WERE SEVERELY SHOT UP. ALL THREE TYPES OF PLANES FLYING AT ROOF TOP HEIGHT INTO CAMERA, OVER ENGLISH COAST; CAMERA IN FRONT PART OF PLANE SHOOTING THE SEA, SV OF BOSTONS APPROACHING (FRONT VIEW AGAIN) DUTCH COAST, STILL AT ROOF TOP HEIGHT, GO RIGHT INTO TARGET AT THIS HEIGHT TAKING AERIAL SHOT OF COUNTRY AS WE GO. TARGET NOW COMES INTO VIEW, (ALL THE PHOTOGRAPHY IS TAKEN BY SECOND BOSTON), WE CAN SEE THE ONE IN FRONT ALL THE WAY, IT NOW COMMENCES SHOOTING UP ROOF SPOTTERS, WE FOLLOW SUIT, GOING RIGHT OVER TARGET; AERIAL SHOT OF TARGET & END TAPE