Summary

Universal Newsreel

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Title: Universal Newsreel
File Number: DN-LB-548 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1944
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 18:01:19:00 B W 1944 16Mar44 Sd England Preview To Invasion. Stacks of boxes in warehouse equipment on rainy fields. soldiers inspected by General Eisenhower, Air Marshall Tedder & General Montgomery. Watching tanks firing machine guns British soldiers demonstrate Piat anti-tank gun. paratrooper drop CU Ike & Montgomery. WWII Pre-D-Day training. 18:02:19:00 B W 1944 Sd Italy AMG Rescues War Victims In Italy. MCU refugees carrying goods on head and walking in rags. Feet seen in CU. Moved in Allied Trucks. Food passed out. Small girls in scarfs crying. Trucks of refugees boarding LST for Naples. WWII Aid. 18:03:12:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City Home From Nazi Prisons. Swedish exchange liner SS Gripsholm in camouflage into port. People waving from ship to cameramen on tugs. Army ambulances leaving docks. S. Pinckney Tuck, ex-charge d'affairs in Vichy in CU. Douglas MacArthur, nephew of General, holds dog and poses. Others pose happy. 18:03:52:00 B W 1944 Ralph Heinzen of United Press speaks to mic: `In this past year Hitler has lost tremendously his prestige, particularly as a military leader. Everybody in Germany blames him for the defeat of Stalingrad. They say that he should have pulled his armies out but for political reasons and not military reasons he kept them there. At the present time you can't say much about his political prestige because as far as anyone knows there is no organized movement against Hitler, or against Nazism in Germany. There is however a very serious, growing, defeatism.' WWII POWs Civilian Prisoners of War Analysis of Germany 1944 Journalist Reporter. 18:04:35:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City Newest In Spring Togs Children with Jane Engel, designer, with children modelling Easter clothes at Ritz-Carleton along with `mother'. Fashion Show. Spring clothes. Kids. WWII Homefront. 18:05:44:00 B W 1944 Sd. Sports Atlantic City, New Jersey Baseball Training. World Champion New York Yankees running past camera. Manager Joe McCarthy talks to them. Pitchers throwing. Hitters hitting. Military watching. Joe looking through movie camera. 18:06:30:00 B W 1944 Lakewood, New Jersey Manager Gus Mancuso does tricks via reverse motion in the camera with catcher's bat, ball & mitt. Manager Mel Ott talks and watches. Team captain in MCU. Sports Baseball 1944 Spring Training WWII Homefront. 18:07:09:00 B W 1944 Sd Madison Square Garden, New York City Tennis. Mixed doubles with Donald Budge, Mary Hardwicke, Alice Marble & Jack Kramer pose. Kramer & Marble win over Budge & Hardwicke 6 to 4 in doubles after Budge had beaten Kramer and Marble had beaten Hardwicke in singles play. Various shots from different angles of doubles play. 1944 Sports Tennis WWII Homefront. 18:07:54:00 B W 1944 Sd Los Angeles, California Rodeo. High angle of parade around track. Cowboys riding bucking buffalo, horses on football field in coliseum. Falls. Bulldogger misses completely. Bull riders. Sponsored by Sunset Ranch. Sports. WWII homefront. Entertainment. End: 18:09:14:00 18:09:21:00 B W 1944 23Mar44 Title: Universal Newsreel Covers World-Wide Events with moving flags & music under. (clean). 18:09:36:00 B W 1944 Sd Stilwell's B??? Stilwell, mcu talking with Chinese and Americans in Burma talking in field. Army 10th Air Force dropping supplies by parachutes. Boxes opened. Chinese soldiers moving forward and carrying wounded on makeshift stretcher to rear. Lt. Colonel Gordon Seagrave treating wounded in open field hospital. Burmese nurses prepare wounded for flight to hospitals in rear and Piper cub airplane shown flying low. WWII CBI front. 18:10:34:00 B W 1944 Sd Anzio, Italy Action At Anzio. Burning buildings and Men fighting fires of burning equipment. Plane into water crewman taken off on stretcher. German fighter shot down sitting on field. Water tower used by Nazis to get the range for shelling is demolished. Communications center shown and artillery firing from camouflaged nets. AV showing explosions. Infantry taking prisoners and getting information. POW marched to rear. 5th (Fifth) Army. WWII. European Front. 18:12:02:00 B W 1944 Sd The World of Sports Muncie, Indiana Baseball Training. Calisthenics inside high school gym. Frankie Frisch and Pittsburgh Pirates with Truett Sewell pitching. (18:12 26) Cairo, Illinois St. Louis Cardinal's Manager Billy Southworth. Pepper Martin. George Munger pitches to Walker Cooper. 18:12:52:00 B W 1944 Cincinnati Reds with Bill McKecknie (sp?) Bucky Walters showing pitching. Players try to do Conga with accordion accompaniment. Oddities Gags Dance 1944 Baseball Spring Training. WWII homefront. 18:13:13:00 B W 1944 Sd Seattle, Washington Plane Made From Scrap. 4 year old Alvin Austin has homemade backyard plane mounted on post and counterbalanced with sand. He goes around in circles and rolls it over as neighborhood kids watch. Oddities. Family. Americana. WWII homefront. Children. 18:13:53:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City Ration Free Shoes, Girls. Delman, designer of deluxe shoes, makes wooden soled `fun shoes'. 2 men working in shop. CU of several pairs. Models wearing and showing. Huge Mexican style sombrero hat. Model laying on artificial set. Oddities Gags Tacky. Fashion show. WWII homefront. Ethnic stereotyping. 18:14:45:00 B W 1944 Sd Stepping Up The Air War 9th Air Force Marauders taking off past and over camera. AVs of propeller man puts on helmet as flak comes up. Dropping bombs over Holland seen from various views. Explosions from air on airport. Planes with contrails. Plane with one motor out seen from below. Air to air of planes. 2 flares fall as plane lands without landing gear on belly landing. Plane inspected. WWII European Front. 18:17:28:00 B W 1944 Sd Title The End Buy Bonds, w music under. (clean) End: 18:17:35:00 18:17:43:00 B W 1944 27Mar44 Sd Title: Universal Newsreel `Covers World-Wide Events' with music under and moving flags. 18:17:57:00 B W 1944 Sd Admiral Islands Hara-kiri In Admiralties. Landing ships with 1st Cavalry into Los Negros GIs walking after, through mud, fighting with ships guns firing toward shore. Dead beside road as US takes airfield. Fighting in jungle with rain. Medical units treating wounded, giving blood plasma and operating in field hospital. Soldiers firing and throwing grenades. 71 dead japs in one pile. WWII Pacific Front. 18:20:04:00 B W 1944 Sd Italy Kelly, `One Man Army', Decorated. MCU of Sgt. Charles Kelly of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania beside house with four rifles. General Clark giving medal to him in North Africa and MCU of salute. In one days fighting he killed 40 Germans. WWII European Front. 18:20:39:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City Dewey Gives Press Oscars. News Photography show mounted and people viewing. Pan over spot news photos. Speed Graphic camera with pictures inside. Governor Dewey awards top prize to Pat Candido (sp?) for Harlem riot scene. WWII Homefront Journalists. 18:21:49:00 B W 1944 Sd Burma Parachute Supplies In Jungle War. C-47 plane banked over jungle. Interior with supplies pushed out and view form another plane of packages going out and parachutes opening from low altitude. WWII supply operations. 18:22:31:00 B W 1944 Sd Curacao, Dutch Guyana Juliana In Curacao In car receiving flowers people unveiling statue of Peter Stuyvesant one-time governor. Native women dancing in native dresses. Car leaving. Royalty Colonialism Exiled Queen Juliana WWII diplomacy. 18:23:03:00 B W 1944 Sd Guadalcanal Hero Nurses Honored. 5 flight nurses on field as members of 13th Air Force line up in tribute. Receiving Air Medals & Oak Leaf Clusters from General Hubert Harmon. Lt. Margaret Rickey, Abilene Texas Lt. Joyce Boybred (sp?) of Champion, Michigan Lt. Dorothy Shekovsky (sp?) of Greenlake Wisconsin Lt. Mary Muckerheidi (sp?) of Milwaukie, Wisconsin Lt. Geraldine Jones of Lockhaven, Pennsylvania. WWII Pacific. Awards Military Women. 18:23:40:00 B W 1944 Sd Ft. Benning, Georgia New War Machines Carbine grenade launcher firing in demonstration. Armored M-8 six wheel, auto-tank built by Ford Motors. Tearing over hills and bouncing past camera in proving grounds testing. WWII homefront. Military Equipment Tested. 18:24:25:00 B W 1944 Sd The World of Sports Basketball - St. Johns 47, De Paul 39. National Invitation College Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden in final. Good stealing and falling. Students cheering. Sports 1944 College Basketball WWII Homefront. 18:25:54:00 B W 1944 Title: The End - Buy Bonds with music under. End: 18:26:02:00. 18:26:10:00 B W 1944 20Apr44 Sd Title: Universal Newsreel`Covers World-Wide Events' with moving flags and music under. 18:26:24:00 B W 1944 Sd England Air Heroes Decorated. Captain Don Gentile taxis up and greeted. Big smile speaks to camera: `We rendezvoused with the bombers, just as we got there the Jerrys were coming in to attack, but we bounced them and split them up. I got on the tail of one, went around, made a few orbits with him, shot him down and he went down smoking. There was another one getting on the tail of one of our boys and he was just about to shoot him down when I clobbered him and he bailed out. Then I went back up to about 24,000 and bounced another Jerry, and we went all over creation. Finally I run him down to the deck and just as we got down to tree top height he blew up and just splattered all over the ground. That is three for the day and makes a net score of 30.' Eisenhower arrives to decorate Gentile and his squadron leader Donald Blakeslee. Sound sync of Eisenhower congratulating them and saying a few words while they stand in front of fighter plane. WWII European Front. 18:27:50:00 B W 1944 Sd Italy The Italian War Front. Easter morning, fighting stopped for 2 hours. Various chaplains and GIs with bibles. CU of Italian refugees. Clothes being given to them, eating at tables and feeding children. CU sleeping baby. Propaganda. WWII European Front. 18:28:49:00 B W 1944 Sd Washington, DC Open Trials For Sedition. Ext. of US District Court CU & MS of stern looking Judge Edward C. Eicher (sp?) EXT shot of Special Assistant to Attorney General, Government Prosecutor O. John Roggie (sp?) & Joseph Burns with photographers taking their pictures. Railroad station and some of 30 defendants including Edward James Smyth, publisher of `Our Common Cause', who waves finger at camera, off RR car with others. Prescott Dennis out of his Army uniform into court, Joe McWilliams, organizer of Christian Mobilizer, in CU. Lawrence Dennis, New York Publisher and wife up stairs. Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling of Chicago, author of `The Red Network', is accompanied by husband and daughter. CU of Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn of Chicago gives fascist salute for photographers. Spying Spies WWII Trial Subversives Courthouse Communists Fascists Fear WWII Homefront Oddities Gags Propaganda. 18:30:03:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City Census Figures ??lt. Hospital with two mothers, three nurses and 7 babies. Mrs. Muriel Bachant & 3 baby girls crying in sync sound and Mrs. Harry Zarief with 3 girls and 1 boy. Husband looks at wife and 4 daughters. Mrs. Van Coutren, mother of 12 in service, presents several War Bonds. Population Explosion Family WWII Homefront Oddities War Loan. 18:31:07:00 B W 1944 Sd Fort Bliss, Texas Men Against The Sky Army anti-aircraft trucks across desert firing guns. Target rockets launched for target practice. Military training WWII homefront. 18:31:53:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City Fashion's Newest Flowers Women artists painting flowers onto cloth for designer Joan Kenley. First flowers are painted onto canvas, then onto pattern pieces of rayon. Models with big smiles modelling blouses and pearls at Waldorf-Astoria. WWII Homefront 1944 styles. women's clothes. 18:33:00:00 B W 1944 Sd Polo Grounds, New York City The World of Sports Baseball Opening. New York Giants 2, Boston Braves 1, in National League Opener. Team in dugout. CU Managers Mel Ott & Bob Coleman. 2 players shake hands. New York City Draft Director Colonel MacDermott with other military VIPS. Mayor LaGuardia throws out first pitch. Good CU of fans. Players named in narration. Sports Professional Baseball WWII Homefront. 18:34:19:00 B W 1944 Title: The End Buy Bonds with music under. End: 18:34:27:00 18:34:35:00 B W 1944 25Sep44 Sd Washington, DC Xmas Mail For GI Joe. Postmaster General Walker at mail window taking packages from women. Women in front of poster about mailing packages to military early. Walker speaks in MCU: `I cannot emphasize to the American public too strongly the necessity for mailing overseas early. Please mail your packages at once so that they may arrive overseas for Christmas. Remember the last day for mailing is October 15th.' WWII Home Front Post Office 1944 Christmas Holiday. 18:35:03:00 B W 1944 Sd Artillery Of The Sky. Gun camera footage of planes destroying railroad trains and oil dumps. Ground footage of destroyed trains. Freight cars with automobiles, tanks and railyards. WWII European Front Damage Propaganda Army Air Force. 18:36:00:00 B W 1944 Sd Brussels, Belgium Liberation Prayers In Brussels. Main square in front of Town Hall with crowd praying before flags & banners carried by people in native dress. Religious leaders, nuns, priests. Religion Thanksgiving WWII Allies. 18:36:45:00 B W 1944 Sd Great Lakes, Illinois Great Lakes Beats Purdue. Navy Sailors 27, Purdue 18 in good coverage. Sailors fill stands. 43 yard pass for touchdown. Another very long touchdown pass. 1944 College Sports WWII Homefront. 18:37:51:00 B W 1944 Sd Title: The End Buy Bonds with music under. End: 18:38:00:00 18:38:07:00 B W 1944 05Oct44 Sd Title: Universal Newsreel `Covers World-Wide Events' with music under and moving flags. 18:38:21:00 B W 1944 Sd Nijmegen, Holland Allies Smash Westwall Defenses. Planes overhead watched by British 2nd Army Tank Unit as many parachutes open. Civilians with bicycles. View from descending parachute of other parachutes. Supplies hitting ground. Glider units landing. Transport crashes as parachutes come out. Burning plane. Gliders landing and flipping. Civilians give GIs directions. MPs directing traffic as US troops advance. British troops. Bridge seen. German POWs taken and to rear. Dutch Collaborationists rounded up. British remove demolition charges, mines from bridge approaches. Trucks and jeeps across bridge on road to Arnhem with bodies laying about. WWII Invasion Netherlands European Front. 18:40:33:00 B W 1944 Sd Luxembourg Jeeps and trucks through narrow road. Burning German vehicles on road in MCU. Banner over street `Welcome To Luxembourg'. Tanks down village road with people watching from side. Downtown with exiled Prince Felix returning as people cheer. GI holding girl on shoulder. Burning picture of Hitler. WWII liberation invasion celebration WWII European front Royalty. 18:41:05:00 B W 1944 Sd Ruetgen, Germany GIs advance across fields toward Siegfried Line tank traps viewed by GIs thru binoculars. Artillery explosions in midst of tank traps and placing demolition charges. Tanks through. Ambulance across. GIs marching across. WWII advancing European Front. 18:41:50:00 B W 1944 Sd First US Jet Plane Tested. Army P-59 Aircomet, with two engines, taking off past camera and view air to air. Built by Bell Aircraft & engine by General Electric. Does wing-over and dives down over desert landscape. Army Air Force WWII homefront technology invention military testing aviation airplane. 18:42:41:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City US Mourns Passing of Al Smith. CU of Smith in brown derby hat. Placard at convention when nominated for President. With wife in MCU at World's Fair. AV over Empire State Building where he poses with Anthony Eden on observation deck. With with grandchildren and wife. Obituary Al Smith. 18:43:21:00 B W 1944 Sd Navy Safety For Fliers. Pilot parachuting into water pilot floating small plane dropping life boat and supplies rescue helicopter picking him up and winched into plane. View from air with dye used by fliers, blimp hauling up pilot in net. Brought into plane. Blimp away from camera. LTA Lighter than air. WWII. Rescues. 18:44:41:00 B W 1944 Sd St. Louis, Missouri World Series. Cincinnati Browns 2, St. Louis Cardinals 1 in game one. Players on field. Pitchers Cooper & Galehouse talking. Governor & managers. Packed stadium. Gene Moore hits single. George McQuinn hits homer to drive Moore in. Sports Professional Baseball WWII Homefront 1944 World Series. 18:45:38:00 B W 1944 Sd Title: The End Buy Bonds with music under (clean). End: 18:46:05:00 18:46:14:00 B W 1944 09Oct44 Sd Galveston, Texas Four-Of-A-Kind Go To School. Mrs. Badgett with 5 1 2 year old quadruplet girls with school bags leaving for school. EXT of Alamo School with name over door. Teacher seats them at desks. They practice dance with other students. WWII homefront elementary education. 18:46:55:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City Wendell Willkie Is Dead. MCU, dead at 52. Waving from car through crowds when running for President. Touring London and with King George during world tour on behalf of FDR. High angle of 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church. Crowds lined up seen going past camera into church to pay respects. Obituary, Wendell Willkie. Politician diplomat. 18:47:50:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City St. Patrick's Cathedral Final Rites For Al Smith. Many pedestrians lined up to pass by Al Smith coffin. Body seen in coffin. James Farley, Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor Hague of Jersey City, Mayor Kelly of Chicago. Jimmy Walker of New York City arrive. Priest leads procession in for Mass. High angle of people watching as coffin is carried out with flowers. Politician Funeral Al Smith. 18:48:58:00 B W 1944 Sd St. Louis, Missouri Cards Win 1944 Series. Cincinnati Browns won games one and three. Cardinals win second, fourth, fifth and sixth games to become World Champions. Packed stadium with bunting seen from above. Triple hit by no. 28. McQuin singles to drive in 1st run. Corowski (sp?) drives in run. Another driven in. Cardinals win 3 to 1. Sports Professional Baseball 1944 World Series. 18:50:56:00 B W 1944 Sd Title: The End Buy Bonds with music under (clean, but interrupted). End: 18:51:03:00 18:51:12:00 B W 1944 10Oct44 Sd Title: Universal Newsreel `Covers World-Wide Events' with music under and flags moving across (clean). 18:51:25:00 B W 1944 Sd Ploesti, Roumania Captured Films - Nazi View of Ploesti Oil Destruction. US bombers seen dropping bombs and burning oil storage, people running down street, fighting fire day and night. King Michael with Nazi officers. Railroad yard devastated. Views when USSR captured Ploesti. WWII Bombings Propaganda WWII European Front. Petroleum Storage. 18:53:04:00 B W 1944 Sd The World of Sports Atlanta, GA.-- Georgia Tech 27, Auburn 0. Cheer leaders & cheering section. Running plays on sunny day and pass for touchdown. Sports College Football WWII homefront. 18:54:09:00 B W 1944 Sd West Point, New York, West Point--- Army 69, Pitt 7. Good touchdown run, touchdown passes, more running plays. Sports College Football WWII homefront. 18:55:21:00 B W 1944 Sd Title: The End Buy Bonds with music under (clean). End: 18:55:29:00. 18:55:36:00 B W 1944 30Oct44 Sd Title: Universal Newsreel `Covers World-Wide Events' with music under and moving flags. (clean). 18:55:52:00 B W 1944 Sd Washington, DC Navy Day Is Victory Day. High angle of marching units up Constitution with Capitol Behind. Reviewing stands, women's units marching past temporary barracks people on sidelines saluting. WAVES marching past camera. Patriotism 1944 WWII Homefront. 18:56:40:00 B W 1944 Sd Normandy, France War Harbors Secret Of D-Day Supply. AV of artificial harbors floating anti-aircraft units on top and barrage balloons above. Overaged freighters sunk for breakwater around dover England. AV over floating harbor of concrete `Rhino' barges storm destroying one of the two harbors and ships blown aground on the beach. Tanks up the causeway to Normandy Shore. WWII invasion. European Theater. English Channel Navy. 18:58:17:00 B W 1944 Sd Polo Grounds, New York City Army Beats Duke 27 To 7. Packed stadium MCU of General Wilbey (sp?) watching in sunshine. Glen Davis runs for touchdown. Cheering cadets. Women in fur coats cheering in MCU. Blanchard runs Hall runs for touchdown. Sports College Football broken field running. WWII Homefront. End: 18:59:39:00 18:59:47:00 B W 1944 06Nov44 Sd Title: Universal Newsreel `Covers World-Wide Events' with music under and moving flags. 19:00:01:00 B W 1944 Sd Washington, DC Stamp Marks 50th Movie Anniversary. Memorial stamps rolling off presses watched by George J. Schaefer, Chairman of the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry and Assistant Postmaster General Ramsey Black watch. Post office window and men buying stamps of South Pacific GIs watching a movie. First day of issue shown. New York Postmaster Goldman presents framed sheets to Postmaster General Walker and to Mr. Schaefer who thanks him. WWII Homefront. 19:01:00:00 B W 1944 Sd Hollywood, California [Ceremonies at Hollywood Post Office]. Maria Montez signs autographed message on oversize postcard to Postmaster General Walker. Group hold postcard for camera. Actress Entertainment Industry Self promotion WWII Homefront. 19:01:19:00 B W 1944 Sd New Flying Freight Car For US Army. First pictures of C-82, 25-ton war plane with box car-like fuselage to carry tanks and artillery. On runway as troops march in followed by half-track view of loading from inside and outside. Rear doors closed, taxiing and take off. Home front Aviation invention Airplane WWII homefront Army Air Force. 19:02:16:00 B W 1944 Sd Moscow, USSR Churchill Visits Russia. Soviet VIPS with Molotov greet Prime Minister Churchill & Anthony Eden on Churchill's second visit to Russia. Walk along soldiers in review on arrival for two-nation conference. British flags England Diplomacy Diplomats WWII Allies. 19:02:54:00 B W 1944 Sd Airborne Lifeboat 27 foot lifeboat installed under B-17 bomber. Testing for a boat to be included on every overseas flight. Test release over fliers in water with smoke or dye signalling. AV of boat being dropped and three parachutes opening. Boat weighs 2,800 lbs and has two 5 hp motors and sails for 500 mile range. Seen under sail. Lifesaving equipment testing WWII inventions Military oddities. 19:03:56:00 B W 1944 Sd Paris, France Paris Chic Back ?? In Models in evening clothes walking toward Eiffel Tower in various styles of coats. MCU of models in plaids, hats, etc. Post-Liberation France WWII European Front aftermath. French fashions Fashion Show. 19:04:44:00 B W 1944 Sd The World of Sports Durham, North Carolina Duke Upsets Ga. Tech 19-13. Clark of Duke running. Davis lang pass for Duke touchdown. End Murdoch seen for Georgia Tech. Cleveland Lewis passes to Bob Smith for Duke Touchdown. Sports College Football WWII Homefront. 19:05:58:00 B W 1944 Sd Baltimore, Maryland Navy Beats Notre Dame 32-13. 65,000 see Navy Mascot. Admiral King British Ambassador Lord Halifax Navy touchdown & cheering spectators. Jenkins passes and Scott runs for another touchdown. Bob Kelly of Notre Dame scores. College Football WWII homefront. 19:07:24:00 B W 1944 Sd Title: The End Buy Bonds with music under (clean). End: 19:07:30:00 19:07:38:00 B W 1944 13Nov44 Sd Title: Universal Newsreel `Covers World-Wide Events with music under, and moving flags. 19:07:52:00 B W 1944 Sd Antwerp, Belgium Antwerp Open To Allies. `Royal British Marine Commandos & the Canadian First Army launch an all-out amphibious attack on Nazi positions in the approaches to Antwerp's gigantic harbor. They capture Walchesen Island, Flushing and Westkapelle. Losses in some attacking waves run as high as 80 per cent. To complete the victory, the British 2nd Army fords treacherous canals to capture Tillaerg.'--release sheet. Ships toward shore artillery firing across railroad tracks. RAF Typhoons dive bombing Ships firing small guns and rockets firing. Troop carriers going ashore and soldiers walking across mud Infantry toward burning buildings German POWs rounded up. WWII European Front Battle Fighting. 19:09:06:00 B W 1944 Sd Pacific Navy Victory In Philippines. Carrier prepares planes and launches air strike, planes warm up mcu of pilot taking off. Carriers Lexington, Wasp & Hornet. Battle map showing locale. Princeton bombed and planes falling out of air. LS Princeton on fire and explosion of ammunition magazine. AV of another carrier Hell-divers landing, one with only one wheel and propeller into deck. Animated film of night battle by Navy. Battle of Philippines. Animation of Tarfoo knocking head off caricature of Tojo. Battle of the Philippines. WWII Naval Battles Pacific Fleet Navy. 19:11:24:00 B W 1944 Sd Washington, DC Capital Welcomes FDR Back. Vice President Wallace and the new VP-elect Truman in rain pose waiting for Roosevelt. He sits in car looking very tired as people wave and moves up Pennsylvania Avenue behind motorcade in rain with headlamps lit. He is present at wreath laying for Armistice Day ceremony at WWI Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Election 1944 WWII Homefront Politics. 19:12:27:00 B W 1944 Sd Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York Army Sinks I
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