- Title: VM-824
- Summary: UNITED NEWS:
- Description:01:03:12 - AIR ASSAULT TACTICS GLIDERS WITH TROOPS ABOARD LAND IN FIELD DURING EXERCISE. ONE CRASHES & BREAKS UP BUT TROOPS RUN OUT SAFELY. GLIDER IS PICKED FROM GROUND UP WITH HOOKS, BY SPEEDING CARGO PLANE. 01:03:44 - HUGE NEW TRANSPORT GLIDER OPENS ITS REAR DOORS AND A JEEP, AN ARTILLERY PIECE FOLLOWED BY SQUAD OF SOLDIERS. THE HUGE GLIDER IS TOWED SKYWARD. PARATROOPS JUMPING FROM PLANES. 01:04:35 - NAVY ROCKETS IN FIREPOWER TEST. LANDING CRAFT FIRES FIERCE VOLLEY OF ROCKETS TOWARD SHORE. TRUCK-MOUNTED ROCKET LAUNCHERS FIRE MOUNTED ROCKET. MONTAGE LAUNCHERS FIRE TREMENDOUS VOLLEYS DURING EXERCISE. AWESOME CLUSTER OF EXPLOSIONS FROM ROCKETS IN DISTANT FIELD. 01:05:55 - GROUND CREWS MOUNT CLUSTERS OF ROCKETS ON BOMBER'S WINGS. PLANES SWOOPING DOWN FIRING ROCKETS INTO FIELD. SLOW-MOTION SHOT OF PLANE SWOOPING DOWN & FIRING ROCKETS INTO WATER. 01:06:45 - GENERAL STILWELL TAKES OVER NEW COMMAND. STILWELL POSES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA HOME. HE SITS OUTSIDE HOME AND GOES THROUGH FAMILY SCRAPBOOK WITH WIFE. 01:07:07 - MONTAGE STILWELL REVIEWING TROOPS IN BURMA, POSING WITH BRITISH LORD MOUNTBATTEN, PLACING MEDAL ON CHIANG KAI SHEK. 01:07:16 - STILWELL EXITS HOME WITH HIS GIANT SCHNAUZER, RUNS AFTER HIM ON THE BEACH. 01:07:30 - B-29 BOMBERS IN QUANTITY PRODUCTION. WORKERS IN GIANT ASSEMBLY PLANTS COMPLETE BUILDING THE HUGE PLANES 01:08:00 - CHINESE WORKERS UNLOAD DRUMS OF FUEL FOR THE B-29S BASED THERE. CHINESE TROOPS ROLL THE 50 GALLON DRUMS TO STORAGE AREA. DRUMS BEING EMPTIED INTO TROUGH AND PIPED INTO STORAGE TANK. 01:08:51 - AERIAL B-29 BOMBS EXPLODE ON BRIDGE IN THAILAND 01:09:08 - CARRIER PLANES COME HOME FROM BATTLE. CARRIER PLANES READY FOR TAKE-OFF, SIGNAL MAN MAKES DRAMATIC GESTURE FOR TAKE-OFF. 01:09:43 - MONTAGE LOW FLYING PLANES HEAD IN FOR LANDING ON DECK. PLANE WITH ONE LANDING GEAR SLIDES OFF DECK AND AND HANGS OVER SIDE. MEDICS CARRY WOUNDED PILOT ON STRETCHER. PLANE IS DUMPED INTO SEA. 01:10:42 - THE ADVANCE TO MANILA. MONTAGE WARSHIPS BOMBARD JAPANESE IN MINDAYAN GULF PRIOR TO LANDING 01:11:27 - GENERAL KREUGER WATCHES FROM WARSHIP BRIDGE. GENERAL MACARTHUR ALSO WATCHES AS BOMBARDMENT COMMENCES. 01:11:44 - MACARTHUR COMES ASHORE ON ONE MORE BEACH. SOLDIERS IN KNEE-DEEP WATER FORM DAISY CHAIN TO PASS SUPPLIES FROM LANDING CRAFT TO BEACH 01:12:10 - INFANTRYMEN ADVANCE THROUGH INLAND FIELD. ARTILLERY FIRE, SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH FIELD UNDER FIRE. WOUNDED BEING CARRIED ON STRETCHERS. ADVANCING GIS IN TRUCKS, WAVE TO FILIPINO NATIVES SITTING ON BRIDGE RAILING AS THEY CROSS. 01:12:46 - NATIVE GIVES GI A PUPPY DOG. AMERICAN OFFICER GIVES HANDFUL OF GRENADES TO GROUP OF FILIPINO GUERRILLAS. CU WAVING NATIVE CHILDREN & VILLAGERS AS AMERICAN SOLDIERS PASS THROUGH. 01:13:21 - ANIMATED MAP SHOWS ADVANCE FROM MINDAYAN GULF TO MANILA. 01:14:21 - SUPPLIES ROLL TO CHINA OVER STILWELL ROAD. MAP SHOWS STILWELL ROAD FROM INDIA, THROUGH BURMA TO CHINA. GENERAL SULTAN, AMERICAN COMMANDER CONGRATULATES GENERAL LOUIS PICK WHO BUILT ROAD. 01:14:47 - CONVOY OF TRUCKS LED BY GENERAL PICK SETS OUT FROM LEDO TO MICHANAW. TRUCKS ROLL OVER TWO MILE BRIDGE CONSTRUCTED BY ENGINEERS. AMERICAN AND CHINESE TRUCK DRIVERS TAKE ON GASOLINE AT A STOP ON ROAD. 01:15:57 - AERIAL VIEW OF STILWELL ROAD. 01:16:04 - CHINESE OFFICERS AND AIRMEN TRAINED IN U.S. 01:16:11 - 19 CHINESE ORDINANCE OFFICERS ENTER NORTHWESTERN TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE TO STUDY MODERN PRODUCTION CHINESE STUDENTS SIT IN CLASSROOM AS PROFESSOR WRITES ON BLACKBOARD. STUDENTS WATCH AS ONE OF THEM WORKS LATHE. 01:16:33 - LARGE GROUP OF CHINESE AIR CADETS SIT ON GROUND AT ARMY FLYING SCHOOL AIRSTRIP ON GRADUATION DAY. EACH CADET RECEIVES HIS COMMISSION. CLASS RUNS OUT TO THEIR PLANES. 01:17:00 - WOUNDED AIRMEN AT WORK IN AIR PRODUCTION. ARMY AMBULANCES PULL UP TO ARMY HOSPITAL IN DENVER, COLORADO. CONVALESCENT SERVICEMEN LINE UP TO PUNCH TIME CARDS AT MUNITIONS FACTORY. 01:17:27 - SERVICEMEN WELDING. GI PULLS HOT BOMB CASING OFF PRODUCTION LINE WITH METAL TONGS. GI PUSHES BOMBS ALONG ON CONVEYOR. EXECUTIVE CHECKS PILE OF BOMBS COMPLETED BY SERVICEMEN. 01:17:51 - DOGS OF WAR TRAIN FOR RETURN HOME. DOG STANDS ALONGSIDE HIS GI MASTER. DOGS HELD ON LEASHES ATTACK ARMS OF GIS TORMENTING THEM DURING ATTACK TRAINING. CU HONORABLE DISCHARGE PAPERS OF DOG. 01:18:10 - DISCHARGED DOGS RUN AND PLAY THROUGH FIELD AS THEY ARE TRAINED TO RETURN TO NORMAL LIFE. DOG STICKS HEAD OUT OF DOG CAGE IN BACK OF STATION WAGON. DOG RUNS UP TO FAMILY WAITING ON DOORSTEPS. CHILD WITH DOG ON LAWN. 01:18:49 - ALLIES LAUNCH WEST FRONT OFFENSIVE ALLIED TROOPS IN SNOWY FIELD WEAR WHITE UNIFORMS. 01:19:04 - STALIN, ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL POSE OUTSIDE BUILDING DURING CRIMEA CONFERENCE. ANIMATED MAP SHOWS ALLIED FORCES CLOSING IN ON GERMANY. 01:19:21 - BRITISH SOLDIERS, SOME WITH DOGS, MARCH INTO GERMANY. NAZI SOLDIER COMES OUT OF TUNNEL WITH HANDS UP. OTHERS RUN ALONG ROAD WITH HANDS UP. 01:19:43 - GI BREAKS WINDOW OF HOUSE WITH HIS RIFLE. OTHER GIS USE WOODEN LADDER AS BATTERING RAM TO BREAK DOWN DOOR. ARMY CAMERAMAN TAKING FILM. 01:19:52 - BABY-FACED GERMAN LIES DEAD IN SNOW, ANOTHER AT GATE OF FENCE. 01:20:05 - WOMAN CRIES AS REFUGEES ARE EVACUATED BEHIND LINES BUNDLES OF CLOTHING IS PASSED TO REFUGEES IN TRUCK BY GI. WOMAN RUNS WITH CHILD IN BABY CARRIAGE. 01:20:35 - GIS UNDER FIRE IN FIELD OF SNOW. LARGE EXPLOSION AS A BRIDGE ID DYNAMITED. 01:20:54 - AERIAL SHELL CRATERS SCAR THE WINTER LANDSCAPE IN MALMEDY, BELGIUM. AERIAL VIEW OF BOMBED-OUT MALMEDY. GIS USE SHOVELS TO UNCOVER FROZEN BODIES OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO WERE TIED UP AND MURDERED BY GERMAN CAPTORS AFTER SURRENDERING. 01:21:18 - CU GERMAN PRISONERS WITH HANDS UP WATCH APPREHENSIVELY AS BODIES OF AMERICANS ARE UNCOVERED. PAN 01:21:27 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-824