Summary

B&W FILM, 1944 IMAGES OF THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS CAMPAIGN IN THE PACIFIC THEATER DURING WORLD WAR II EXACT DATE OF FILMING UNKNOWN

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 321494
Story Slug WORLD WAR II: ADMIRALTY ISLANDS CAMPAIGN (1944)
Location LOS NEGROS, NEW GUINEA
Format PKG license VO SIL
Date 01/01/1944
Archive Time 01:57:58
TRT 4:37
Supers LOS NEGROS, NEW GUINEA
Video Description Black and white film, (narration/music not licensable), General Douglas MacArthur arrives to congratulate troops of the 1st Cavalry Division on their successful surprise attack on Los Negros Admiralty Islands MacArthur embraces soldier Soldiers pack up their backpacks with battle gear and provisions and rations Trucks, personnel carriers leave, full of men ready to attack Men board landing crafts, which take them out to water and Navy destroyers, their transport ships Good tight shot of troops climbing up rope ladders onto ship, helped up by sailors, WS of convoy of ships heading for Los Negros, Admiralty Islands in the Pacific Theater Soldiers and sailors wait on deck of destroyer, cleaning weapons, M-28 tommy gun M-1 cleaned by GI Good footage of troops loading clips, checking bolt action They check the 30 and 50 caliber machine guns Soldier closely calibrating sight on gun Troops put fuses into hand grenades, scout observation float plane is catapulted off destroyed, flying towards islands, ships firing gus, explosions, landing craft heading towards beach, soldiers running ashore, combat, Major General William Curtis Chase speaking to the troops, soldiers gathered, listening, transport ship filled with soldiers and supplies, bulldozers clearing land, soldiers arriving, combat footage in jungle, soldiers running across open airfield,
Description B&W FILM, 1944 IMAGES OF THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS CAMPAIGN IN THE PACIFIC THEATER DURING WORLD WAR II EXACT DATE OF FILMING UNKNOWN
Not everything listed in the CONUS Archive is necessarily licensable Reporter sound/image is not licensable

Keywords

World War Two
WWII
training
International
historical film
World War II
World War 2
WW2
WW 2
Pacific theater
war in the pacific
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