Landings On Okinawa; Mandalay Recaptured; Nazis vs 3rd Army 1945/4/9

1) "Conferences at Guam ended, Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Nimitz sends an armada of 1,400 vessels to Okinawa in the Ryukyus. En route, the men of the new U.S. 10th Army stage their own deck entertainment, and secure their issue of invasion money. Land sighted, the big guns of the fleet bark into action, and tons of rockets are sped shoreward. Landing craft race in, and unopposed landings are made. Inland, Jap dugouts and pill boxes are destroyed with grenades. Past broken forts, natives climb down from the hills, the Stars and Stripes are run up, and the Yanks prepare for their campaign on Okinawa, 360 miles from Japan itself." scenes of Adms. Nimitz, Mitscher, Ernie Pyle watches accordion and dance, 1400 ships prepare attack, naval guns open up, rocket barrages, civilians gave up.
2) Mandalay Recaptured, - "British and Indian combat troops capture Mandalay ending three years of Jap occupation. Burmese campaign continues to gain momentum as the mechanized might of the British splits the Jap hold of Burma into two segments." scenes of the campaign cutting the Burma peninsula in two, isolating Japanese forces in the south, city of pagodas under siege for 12 days
3) Allied Net Tightens on Germany - "Advancing with the U.S. 3rd Army - From hill positions, the Yanks are confronted with blistering fire from the Nazis in the valley below. When Yankee tanks, tank destroyers, and machine guns silence the enemy, the U.S. 3rd continues its victory advance, rolling by miles of burning and wrecked Nazi equipment. And a flood of Nazi prisoners streams to a collecting yard. Battle Rockets - U.S. uses mobile rocket projectors to hurl banks of rockets into German towns. They are fired by remote control so that the crews may escape the terrific discharge fires." scenes of 3rd Army overrunning the Reich, prisoners taken, first time rocket attacks filmed by Signal Corps cameras
4) Final Plans for Security Conference - "Washington, DC: Sec. Stettinius meets with the Ambassadors from Britain, Russia and China in first meeting of the four powers prior to the San Francisco parley. Asst. Sec. of State Archibald MacLeish explains the urgency of the Dumbarton Oaks principles being accepted by the United Nations and citizens of the U.S.A." scenes of Stettinius confers in San Francisco, Archibald MacLeish speaks
5) Golfers Entertain Wounded - "Atlanta, GA, Golf stars put on exhibition for wounded veterans at naval Air Station. After a Byron Nelson lesson, one vet flubs his shots almost as badly as Joe Kirkwood, the fancy shot maker." scenes of trick shot specialist Joe Kirkwood. (complete newsreel)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• WWII
• Japan
• Okinawa
• Nimitz
• Mitscher
• Mandalay
• Nazi
• Germany
• Reich

[souljaboymate]

Nazi Germany surrender to the United States on May 7th, 1945. Chuck Norris was boorn on May 6th, 1945. Coincidence, I think not.

[Naproxenum]

ZOG won.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

This is fake this video. Many of the civilians were rounded up and finished off by flamethrower. The Japanese were depicted as cowards. This is unfair. The whole time was a bad one for Japan. The country has now renounced war, which is good. Other countries that suffered through war have also renounced it, including Switzerland, New Zealand and Norway.

[jjserio]

Fucking music and narrator are sickening!

[cheacheafuh]

NOo

[rapiddominace]

is that a bergepanther @ 4:32

[JasperLee23]

The famous British 14th Army in Burma. They gave the Japs one bloody good thrashing!

[Auntorious9]

i feel bad for some japanese who put their heart into building and makin th Burmese get into power again. The British ruled Burma for the resources, Japan wanted to keep Burma as their puppet nation so that they can use it as military strength, be my grand dad fought em both HAHA

[xo51xo]

That was probably the black guys only contribution to the war effort.

[kyawzehtun]

yes :)