Summary

WWII #4

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: WWII #4
File Number: AFP-25AJ 16mm VTM-25AJ Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1945
Subjects: Aerials
Description: B W 1942 Newsreels of 1942, all WWII related. 01:25:38:00 B W 1945 YANKS FIGHTING AROUND GLOBE! American soldiers marching through streets and mud, Ireland American pilots climb aboard fighter planes decorated with snarling shark faces, China (the "Flying Tigers") fighter planes in formation General Claire Chennault, US Air Force chief in China, and Colonel Scott sailors unloading supplies from ship Allied sailors smiling into CAM, three portraits. 01:26:55:00 B W 1945 JAPS BOMB ALASKA! American airbase in the Aleutian Islands damaged by Japanese attack buildings on fire American destroyers and transport ships soldiers unloading supplies on beach. 01:27:37:00 B W 1945 US MARINES BATTLE JAPS IN PACIFIC! American naval guns firing, several shots, Solomon Islands marines landing at Guadalcanal Japanese airbase set on fire by retreating Japanese Japanese POWs, brief marines raise American flag, salute, good. (see also DN-103, 03:11:01:25 to 03:13:40:22) 01:28:50:00 B W 1945 BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC! Bombs dropping from airplane, CU AV, two German U-boats hit by bombs battleships on fire. 01:29:30:00 B W 1945 CANADIANS SMASH SPITZBERGEN! Canadian forces raid island of Spitzbergen and blow up a German radio station excellent soldier pushing a plunger and setting off huge explosion of dynamite flaming building collapses Norwegian refugees evacuate [to England]. 01:30:22:00 B W 1945 Untitled WWII newsreel fragments: Blackout drill, people drawing black curtains Nuremberg war crimes trial, Goering, Hess, von Schirach (Hitler Youth leader). 01:32:32:00 B W 1945 MILLIONS OF G.I.'S COME HOME! AVs of aircraft carrier, packed with returning troops soldiers disembarking aircraft carrier Saratoga, AVs, deck crowded with troops sailors disembarking sailor kissing woman, excellent
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