U.S. Bombs Japanese from Base in the Aleutians - 1943

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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, U.S. troops land on one of the Aleutian Islands and battle winds to put up tents. Airplanes take off from an island airfield. Shows Gen. Lloyd E. Jones. Part 2, the Dionne quintuplets are present as 5 cargo vessels are launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Part 3, tanks of the British 8th Army roll forward in Tunisia. Gen. Montgomery and Gen. Eisenhower meet. Allied planes patrol the Mediterranean. Allied artillery blasts Nazi positions by night. Germans surrender by the thousands.


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Category:

Education

Tags:

• anzac
• chitka
• alaska campaign
• dionne girls
• tunis
• biertze
• Montgomery
• aleutian

[empressoffrance]

I wonder why the Japanese were never prosecuted for war crimes. They were the absolute worst, mad dogs. Oh yes I forgot they paid the US billions of 's not to prosecute. Then in the 50's Hollywood did a great P/R campaign, making the Japs look good.

[mrgoodvibrations]

Keep the newsreels coming, love to view the living history, Thank You!