- Title: VM-478B
- Summary: WWII NEWSREELS: MOS WWII Newsreels: PACIFIC WAR THEATER. GENERAL DOOLITTLE. GENERAL MACARTHUR. IWO JIMA. MANILA. D-DAY. EUROPEAN WAR THEATER. PARIS. ROME.
- Description:00:27:07 - STUDENT PILOTS WALKING TO PLANES, IN FLIGHT FORMATION, DROPPING BOMBS AT SHIP TARGET 00:27:35 - SOUTHWEST PACIFIC BASE. MILITARY PERSONNEL IN PLANNING ROOM. PILOTS RUNNING TO PLANES, TAKING OFF, IN FLIGHT. DROPPING BOMBS ON JAPANESE SHIPS CU PILOT PULLING BOMB SELECTOR PANEL, CU DETONATING BOMB. HITTING ENEMY PLANES. HITTING ENEMY SHIPS. TWO PLANES SHOOTING INTO WATER, LINE OF BULLET FIRE INTO WATER 00:28:57 - GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR MEETING AUSTRALIAN GENERAL 00:29:17 - MILITARY STUDENT PILOTS MARCHING IN FORMATION 00:29:34 - U. S. CARRIER HORNET AIR CRAFT CARRIER FULL OF FIGHTER PLANES. PAN PILOTS ON DECK. 00:29:56 - CU LOOK OUT ON WATCH, LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS FOR ENEMY SHIPS. NAVY SHIP ATTACKING JAPANESE PATROL BOAT 00:30:12 - CU JAPANESE PRISONERS ON DECK 00:30:18 - TRIO OF MILITARY LEADERS LOOKING AT MILITARY PLANS, PLANNING ROOM 00:30:21 - DECK CREW HAND PROPPING FIGHTER PLANE, PLANES TAKING OFF FLIGHT DECK, BOMBER PLANES IN FLIGHT. 00:31:02 - BOMBER TAKING OFF FLIGHT DECK ALMOST CRASHES. ANXIOUS MOMENT 00:31:15 - JAPANESE CITY TOKYO UNDER AIR ATTACK, SIEGE. CITIZENS RUNNING, COVERING THEIR FACES, BOMBS. CITY ON FIRE. SMOKE, FLAMES. PANDEMONIUM 00:31:37 - CU GENERAL DOOLITTLE. MRS. CHIANG KAI-SHEK DECORATES GENERAL DOOLITTLE, SPEAKS MOS 00:31:51 - AMERICAN SOLDIER RAISING AMERICAN FLAG IN ROME. ALLIES TAKE ROME ITALY JUNE 5, 1944 00:32:01 - BALCONY FROM WHICH IL DUCE USED TO GIVE SPEECHES PANS TO AMERICAN FLAG 00:32:08 - D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944. ALLIED SECOND FRONT OPENS ALLIED FLEET MOVING IN. TRUCKS, TANKS COMING OFF CARRIER. HS CARRIER FILLED WITH TANKS. 00:32:37 - ALLIED TANKS, SOLDIERS ARRIVING IN FRANCE 00:32:47 - FRENCH FAMILY WELCOMING ALLIED TROOPS SOLDIERS 00:32:55 - ALLIED SOLDIERS FIGHTING IN PARIS. AUGUST 4, 1944 00:33:17 - GENERAL DEGAULLE ARRIVING BY CAR. 00:33:27 - MACARTHUR & HIS MEN LANDING IN THE PHILIPPINES 10/20/44. INFANTRY RUNNING OFF LANDING CRAFT 00:33:56 - AMERICAN B-29'S EN ROUTE TO TOKYO 00:33:59 - MAP SHOWING FLIGHT ROUTE TO JAPAN 00:34:09 - B-29 FIGHTER PLANES EN ROUTE TO TOKYO 00:34:24 - MACARTHUR'S TROOPS IN MANILA, BATTLE FOOTAGE LIBERATING MANILA. PRISONERS WITH HANDS BEHIND THEIR BACKS. CU BLOODIED SOLDIER 00:35:06 - HIGH PAN MANILA, SMOKE BILLOWING. DESTROYED CITY 00:35:09 - MANILA DURING WARTIME, CITIZENS FLEEING, BURNED OUT BUILDINGS, PANDEMONIUM. BUILDING COLLAPSES MAN & PIG FLEEING THE CITY 00:35:20 - GIS STALKING OUT JAPANESE SNIPERS 00:35:33 - CITIZENS HANGING AMERICAN FLAG FROM BUILDING POV LOOKING DOWN AT THOUSANDS OF CHEERING HAPPY LIBERATED CITIZENS 00:35:35 - CU GENERAL MACARTHUR SALUTING 00:35:42 - POV FLYING OVER MT. SURIBACHI 00:35:45 - BATTLE FOOTAGE UNITED STATES MARINES AT IWO JIMA 00:36:08 - MARINE PLATOON LANDING AT IWO JIMA, POSITIONING THEMSELVES 00:36:19 - LEG WITH BULLET WOUND 00:36:21 - BATTLE OF IWO JIMA FOOTAGE 00:36:29 - POV INSIDE MARINE TANK DURING BATTLE 00:36:49 - CU CAPTURED JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR 00:36:56 - AMERICAN MARINES SALUTING AMERICAN FLAG AT IWO JIMA
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1942
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-478B