Latest War Films from U.S. Forces in South Pacific - 1943

CREATED BY
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945)

SUMMARY
Part 1, Liberator bombers strike Japanese installations on a Pacific island and U.S. troops land with little opposition. Steam shovels and tractors clear jungle foliage for an airstrip. Part 2, Chinese work in a California shipyard. Part 3, the Swedish track star, Gunder Hagg, sees a baseball game in Boston and runs a record mile in the Harvard University stadium. Part 4, 7th Army troops advance through Sicilian villages. Wounded are loaded on planes for evacuation. Part 5, railroad yards in Rome are bombed with pinpoint precision. Part 6, Pres. Roosevelt speaks of the Fascist decline in Italy.


REPOSITORY:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

For information about ordering reproductions of moving images held by the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, visit: http://www.archives.gov/research/order/broadcast-quality-film-dc.html

SUBJECTS
Shipyards
World War, 1939-1945
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Hagg, Gunder
United News Company, Producer
Army. 7th Army
Harvard University

MORE INFORMATION:
More information is available in the National Archives online catalog:
http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=38969

Category:

Education

Tags:

• National Archives
• NARA
• WWII
• War World II
• WW2
• Sicily
• Rome
• Shipyards
• Fenway Park
• Franklin D Roosevelt
• Gunder Hagg
• United News Company
• 7th Army
• Harvard University