Japanese dead on Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands during World War II

"The Negro Soldier"" Part 4 :war time shots in snow, desert, good weather - featuring primarily Black soldiers; Soldiers building a pontoon bridge; man at work atop a telephone pole; Black soldiers manning their anti-aircraft gun emplacement.; Combat training maneuvers: soldiers crawl across ground amid gunfire soldiers charge across stream and climb up cliff. VS war time shots from all war fronts (Europe, Africa, Pacific). Great shots of the front lines of WWII; WWII combat dramatization: Black soldier shoots anti-aircraft machine gun at Japanese Zero fighter plane, VS CU Japanese pilot - the fighter plane is hit and crashes. Poor shots; Montage of soldiers marching, most of them black, some are parade marches. - CU liberty bell ringing w V for Victory symbol.

00:00:00:00 [Memorial ceremony at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery amphitheater honoring black Union soldiers of the US Civil War]---SOT singer singing 'Lift Every Voice & Sing', Negro ...

Negro mothers drive in Paris. France. <br/> <br/>A group of mothers of African-American soldiers visit France in the 1920's. No other info. Film of the women arriving at a railroad station in Paris. They walk along platform; accompanied by a few white Army officers. Next; the mothers and officers in front of building; an all black brass band plays; some Frenchmen stand watching in BG . The musicians are wearing stylish civilian suits. <br/> <br/>The mothers carry American flags and wear military decorations. Shots panning on the group of women. Then various CU's of the band- -some great shots of men playing saxophone; tuba; drums; trombone; trumpet; etc. CU African-American officer. CU pans on the crowd of women and men; now not all playing instruments; all smiling; waving enthusiastically. Group pose; w/ a little boy in front row. World War One veterans? Family.

Americans win new air bases from Japan in South Pacific during World War II. Americans bombers fly towards Japanese targets in the South Pacific. Planes drop bombs on enemy positions. Explosion along the coast. Smoke rises up. Animated picture show Manus in the Admiralty Islands. American troops shell the island. U.S. cavalrymen land on the Los Negros Island and march forward. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Soldiers carry the wounded on stretcher. Dead Japanese soldiers. Soldiers move towards the airstrip on the island. Wrecked Japanese planes. Heavy equipment on the airstrip. American planes at the airstrip. Location: Los Negros Island New Guinea. Date: February 29, 1944.

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

"NEGRO TROOPS IN ACTION" - UNITS OF 92ND DIVISION IN GROUND ACTION, ATTACKING AN ITALIAN VILLAGE. NEGRO TROOPS FIRING BAZOOKAS AND RIFLES. LS BAZOOKA SHELL HITTING BUILDING. NEGRO TROOPS ENTER VILLAGE, WITH CIVILIAN PEOPLE WATCHING. ITALIAN WOMAN SHAKES HAND OF PASSING NEGRO SOLDIER. african-american / negro history

[WWI Meuse Argonne Offensive] Sept./Nov.,1918. HAS of supply convoy arriving in town. Troops marching single file along countryroad. CU of French Gen. Ballou. Negro soldiers marching in double time. Ballou walking through trench. Negro soldiers of the 325th Field Signal Corps. setting up telephone communications in strategic areas. Soldiers testing equipment. LS of soldiers crossing field. Man on stretcher being lifted into truck. Negro soldiers in facial bandages sitting at Red Cross Station. Negro soldiers looking over an artillery shell and preparing food. Soldiers receiving a hot meal. A man receiving a hair cut.

Caribbean soldiers and families at a Caribana church service in Toronto. Flag procession out of church.

THE HOME FRONT: FDR IN NIGERIA; 99th NEGRO FIGHTER UNIT

United States Marines invade Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands during World War II

The War Department presents ""The Negro Soldier"" - AMAZING!!!! Part 1 The Negro Soldier - 1944 - Part of ""Why We Fight"" series Office of War Information through the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry. The Negro Soldier, part of the Why We Fight series. WWII Anti Nazi propaganda film featuring historical timeline of Blacks fighting in American battles w historical reenactments, engravings, paintings & newsreel footage. The Negro Soldier was a 1944 propaganda film produced by the United States War Department encouraging African-Americans to join the armed forces and otherwise help the war effort. People enter Black church. (good shots of Blacks entering church from different angles) US soldier leads choir in singing hymns. Minister delivers sermon from pulpit. The pastor decides to devote his sermon on the Negro and the war. He begins with a historical introduction, talking about African-American contributions to American military endeavors. MS military service flag. American boxer Joe Louis knocks down German boxer Max Schmeling during fight. Parishioners in pews. Paratrooper Schmeling jumps during military training. Louis climbs fence & monkey bars during field exercises. Preacher discusses how stakes in war are even more important. American flag superimposed over American Constitution. Nazi flag superimposed over Hitler's book Mein Kampf. Minister reads racist passage from Mein Kampf (Blacks described as half ape). MS congregation. Historical reenactments, paintings & engravings show timeline of Black heroes who fought in major US battles & contributed to building US Plaque at Granary Burial Ground. Engraving of Crispus Attucks at Boston Massacre (1770). Monument for Attucks & Samuel Maverick at Concorde Bridge. Peter Sale's gun & painting of Sale in battle. Prince Whipple in Emmanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware 1776 painting. Reenactment of Washington's troops crossing Valley Forge 1778. Liberty Bell ringing superimposed over American flag. Men c hopping trees in forest. CUs faces & hands of Blacks & Caucasians laying bricks for building. Farmer's field. Ship firing cannon. Tyler Thompson at Lake Erie. Reenactment of Thomas Wilson at Battle of New Orleans. Shipbuilding. VS Abraham Lincoln Memorial (Washington, DC). Black homesteader couple driving covered wagon. Workers building railway track. LA train. Reenactment 9th & 10th, 24th & 25th Infantry Cavalry at Santiago, Cuba for Spanish-American War. Blue collar railroad worker black men, one saying goodbye to friends, telling them he's going to be a soldier in the Spanish-American War.

Item title reads - MacArthur in the front line. <br/> <br/>South Pacific. <br/> <br/>Various shots of gunfire from ships laying siege on Los Negros. M/S of General Douglas MacArthur directing operations and watching. Landing craft speed towards the shore and planes fly over. Smoke rises from the island. The Americans disembark and advance under fire. After they have taken it General MacArthur inspects the site, he looks at dead Japanese soldier. Various shots as he shakes hands and congratulates some of his men.