- Title: V-2923
- Summary: RKO PATHE NEWS: WWII WORLD WAR TWO. WACS WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS. FRENCH TRAITORS SPY TRIAL. CROSS OF LORRAINE. FRENCH HELP AMERICAN SOLDIERS CELEBRATE 4TH OF JULY. GENERAL BRADLEY FIRES A LONG TOM.
- Description:06:09:21 - RUSSIAN ARMY ADVANCING, PUSHING NAZI ARMY BACK IN CRIMEA. SEA, AIR & LAND FIGHTING 06:10:10 - RUSSIAN ROCKET GUNS THROWING BARRAGE OF ROCKETS 06:10:30 - ARTILLERY FROM SOVIET LAND FORCES GOING OFF, PUSHING THROUGH EVERY TOWN ON THE PENINSULA 06:10:55 - THOUSANDS OF GERMAN PRISONERS SNAKING UP ROAD 06:11:17 - FRENCH TRAITORS SPY TRAIL IN CHERBOURG. FREE COURT TRYING FRENCH TRAITORS. JURY TRIAL, SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON, LED AWAY TO JAIL 06:12:02 - ALLIES ADVANCING IN NORMANDY, BRITISH & CANADIAN TROOPS TAKE CAEN. TAKING GERMAN PRISONERS, AIR & ARTILLERY POUNDING. ROMMEL TANKS HIT SHERMAN TANK. 06:12:47 - GERMAN SOLDIER WITH HANDS OVER HEAD RUNS OUT OF HIDING 06:12:58 - ALLIED FORCES MOVING INTO CAEN, MASSIVE DESTRUCTION, PILES OF RUBBLE 06:13:22 - HAPPY FRENCH CITIZENS WAVING AT ALLIED SOLDIERS AS THEY PASS BY 06:13:30 - MEMBERS OF THE UNDERGROUND ASSEMBLING IN THE OPEN. CU ARM BAND CROSS OF LORRAINE. RAISING CROSS OF LORRAINE FLAG 06:13:55 - CU SIGN "ENTERING LA HAYE DU PUITS WARNING ROAD UNDER FIRE". AMERICAN TROOPS TAKE LA HAYE DU PUITS. SOLDIERS MOVING GINGERLY THROUGH TOWN FEARFUL OF SNIPERS, CHECKING BOMBED ABANDONED BUILDINGS 06:14:27 - WAC WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS VISITING EGYPT 06:14:34 - SIGN ON BUILDING "CAIRO CITY POLICE CANTEEN FOR ALLIED TROOPS ONLY". INTERIOR CANTEEN 06:14:40 - WACS VISITING THE SPHINX & THE PYRAMIDS. EGYPT. UNIFORMED WOMEN RIDING CAMELS 06:15:09 - 8TH AIR FORCE FIGHTER BASE, ENGLAND, LT. COL. FRANCIS GABRESKI GETTING INTO FIGHTER PLANE, 100TH MISSION. CU 27 NAZI SYMBOLS, SWASTIKAS WITH LINES THROUGH THEM, SYMBOLIZING THE 27 NAZI PLANES HE'S SHOT DOWN 06:15:29 - GABRESKI'S PLANE TAKES OFF, SWOOPS DOWN. POV IN PLANE SHOOTING AT DOWNED PLANES IN THE WATER POV FILMING FROM PLANE HITTING NAZI PLANE, GABRESKI DOWNS HIS 28TH NAZI PLANE 06:16:04 - FIGHTER PLANES IN FORMATION FLYING BACK TO BASE GROUND CREWS RUSHING PLANE TO GREET HERO. CU MAN APPLYING ANOTHER NAZI SYMBOL ON PLANE 06:16:27 - IKE GENERAL EISENHOWER & OMAR BRADLEY IN NORMANDY CU MESSAGE WRITTEN "TO ADOLF, HERMAN, JOSEF AND ERWIN HAPPY 4TH OF JULY" [SIC] 06:16:45 - CU SOLDIER WITH STOP WATCH, COORDINATING GUNS TO ALL GO OFF AT SAME TIME. BRADLEY LOADING LONG TOM WITH MESSAGE "HAPPY 4TH ADOLPH!" [SIC] WRITTEN ON IT. 06:16:55 - MAN WITH BULLHORN SIGNALS WITH HAND, SOLDIERS FIRE EN MASSE 06:17:18 - FRENCH TOWN, AMERICAN & FRENCH CELEBRATING AMERICA'S FOURTH 4TH OF JULY HOLIDAY. AMERICAN & FRENCH FLAGS FLYING SIDE BY SIDE. 06:17:30 - FRENCH CHILDREN SING "AMERICA" MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1943
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-2923