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Universal Newsreels, Release 386, April 2, 1945
in Universal Newsreels, Release 386 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1945, originally published 1945), 10 mins
This newsreel features military maneuvers, airplanes, invasions, and paratroopers.
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in Universal Newsreels, Release 386 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1945, originally published 1945), 10 mins
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This newsreel features military maneuvers, airplanes, invasions, and paratroopers.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL
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'COVERS WORLD-WIDE EVENTS'
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THE ATTACK ON THE RYUKYUS
Giant ships of the U. S. Fifth Fleet--immense new battleships and huge aircraft carriers--plunge through very heavy seas to be in position for the air assault on the Ryukyu Islands, less than 350 miles from Japan prope...
This newsreel features military maneuvers, airplanes, invasions, and paratroopers.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL
'TOPS THE FIELD'
'COVERS WORLD-WIDE EVENTS'
Helps Build a Newsreel Following for Your Theatre
THE ATTACK ON THE RYUKYUS
Giant ships of the U. S. Fifth Fleet--immense new battleships and huge aircraft carriers--plunge through very heavy seas to be in position for the air assault on the Ryukyu Islands, less than 350 miles from Japan proper.
The carrier planes take off and soon they are destroying vital airstrips on Okinawa, ships in harbors and other targets. Missions accomplished, they return to their flat tops to find a furious battle going on between the fleet and swarms of Jap planes. Exceedingly accurate anti-aircraft fire sends a succession of Jap planes spinning into the sea.
EASTER OBSERVANCE
N. Y. C.--Easter begins in Gotham with the annual Sunrise Service on the Mall in Central Park, with many wounded service men being noted both in the crowd and on the platform.
After Archbishop Spellman pontificates at St. Patrick's Cathedral, worshippers leave to join the Fifth Avenue Easter Parade of 800,000. Yvonne De Carlo, Universal star, is prominent among the style paraders. Only the outdoor Lily Show at Radio City attracts more attention.
U. S. ROCKET TANKS
In the Rhine offensive, giant U. S. tanks mounting 60 rocket tubes lay down terrific rocket barrages either in salvo, or in rapid fire.
PEACE AT GODESBERG
When the Yanks enter Godesberg they survey the Hotel Dreesen, site of the famous Chamberlain-Hitler conference of '38 which was meant to avert war. To prevent the Huns from engaging in any more fighting, the Yanks disarm the citizens of all their weapons, including lances.
ZWEIBRUCKEN CAPTURED
Gen. "Iron Mike" O'Daniel's U. S. 3rd Infantry virtually razes this Nazi industrial and mining center before they enter it and round up all the civilians and bitter young Nazi troopers.
CAPTURE OF SAARBRUCKEN
The U. S. 7th Army rolls through the ruins and wreckage of this once proud city--site of the 1935 plebiscite. Now A.M.G. takes over.
VOL. 18--386
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Date Written / Recorded
1945
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Ed Herlihy, 1909-1999
Date Published / Released
1945-04-02, 1945
Publisher
Universal Pictures Company
Series
Universal Newsreels
Speaker / Narrator
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969, Ed Herlihy, 1909-1999
Person Discussed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969
Topic / Theme
Airplanes, Invasions, Military maneuvers, Paratroops, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, American History, Depression & World War II (1929–1945), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Universal Newsreels, Release 387, April 5, 1945
in Universal Newsreels, Release 387 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1945, originally published 1945), 7 mins
This newsreel features military maneuvers, airplanes, invasions, and paratroopers.
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in Universal Newsreels, Release 387 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1945, originally published 1945), 7 mins
Description
This newsreel features military maneuvers, airplanes, invasions, and paratroopers.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL
'TOPS THE FIELD'
'COVERS WORLD-WIDE EVENTS'
Helps Build a Newsreel Following for Your Theatre
INVASION--BY THE ALLIED AIRBORNE ARMY
When the entire Rhine front explodes into action the First Allied Airborne Army takes flight for the Westphalian plains. From an observation post Gen. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill watch the sky t...
This newsreel features military maneuvers, airplanes, invasions, and paratroopers.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL
'TOPS THE FIELD'
'COVERS WORLD-WIDE EVENTS'
Helps Build a Newsreel Following for Your Theatre
INVASION--BY THE ALLIED AIRBORNE ARMY
When the entire Rhine front explodes into action the First Allied Airborne Army takes flight for the Westphalian plains. From an observation post Gen. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill watch the sky trains roar by overhead.
The drop area reached, thousands of chutes float to the ground from twin side-door C-46 carriers, while giant C-47 tow planes release their gliders. Despite damaging resistance the gliders land with their jeeps and other materiel.
Shortly, Nazi troops are marched in as captives, and this airborne invasion becomes one of the most successful in the history of warfare.
CAPTURE OF COBLENZ
With tanks leading the way, units of Gen. Patton's U. S. 3rd Army advance on Coblenz, the thousand-year-old transportation center. Repeated air bombings and heavy artillery fire have reduced the city to ruins, from which the Nazis offer scattered resistance.
Tom Priestley, Universal cameraman, covers the entire action. Soldier dead litter the ground. A loud speaker is used to demand and direct surrender and several thousand Nazi prisoners are collared. White flags flutter from the few remaining ancient homes. Ancient Ehrenbrightstein Castle, used by the Germans as a fortress, is a battered pile of ruins. American tanks rumble through the narrow streets, and head eastward, deeper into Germany.
101ST AIRBORNE CITED
In a stirring speech, Gen. Eisenhower awards the Presidential Citation to the famous 101st Airborne Division for its heroic defense of Bastogne. Steel-helmeted Marlene Dietrich joins the entire reviewing party in saluting the 101st.
MYSTERY 6 MOTOR SHIP
Secretly built during Nazi occupation, a gigantic 6 motor French flying boat is now unveiled. It takes off and flies as gracefully as anything in the air.
FLAIL TANKS
The Canadian First Army uses huge tanks with heavy rotating chain beaters in front of them which explode any and all buried Nazi road mines.
VOL. 18--387
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Date Written / Recorded
1945
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Ed Herlihy, 1909-1999
Date Published / Released
1945-05, 1945
Publisher
Universal Pictures Company
Series
Universal Newsreels
Speaker / Narrator
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969, Ed Herlihy, 1909-1999
Person Discussed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969
Topic / Theme
Airplanes, Invasions, Military maneuvers, Paratroops, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, American History, Depression & World War II (1929–1945), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Universal Newsreels, Release 388, April 9, 1945
in Universal Newsreels, Release 388 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1945, originally published 1945), 7 mins
This newsreel features military maneuvers, airplanes, invasions, and international relations.
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in Universal Newsreels, Release 388 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1945, originally published 1945), 7 mins
Description
This newsreel features military maneuvers, airplanes, invasions, and international relations.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL
'TOPS THE FIELD'
'COVERS WORLD-WIDE EVENTS'
Helps Build a Newsreel Following for Your Theatre
THE INVASION OF OKINAWA
Conferences at Guam ended, Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Nimitz sends an armada of 1,400 vessels to Okinawa in the Ryukus. En route, the men of the new U. S. 10th Army stage their own deck entertainment, an...
This newsreel features military maneuvers, airplanes, invasions, and international relations.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL
'TOPS THE FIELD'
'COVERS WORLD-WIDE EVENTS'
Helps Build a Newsreel Following for Your Theatre
THE INVASION OF OKINAWA
Conferences at Guam ended, Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Nimitz sends an armada of 1,400 vessels to Okinawa in the Ryukus. 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.
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.
RETURN TO MANDALAY
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.
BIG FOUR CONFER
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sec. Stettinius meets with the Ambassadors from Britain, Russian and China in first meeting of the four powers prior to the San Francisco parley.
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.
SEC. MACLEISH SPEAKS
WASHINGTON, D.C.--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.
GOLF FOR VETS
ATLANTA, GA.--Golf stars put on exhibition for wounded veterans at Naval Air Station. After a Byron Nelson lesson, one vet (illegible text) his (illegible text) almost as badly as Joe Kirkwood, the fancy (illegible text) maker.
VOL. 18--388
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Date Written / Recorded
1945
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Ed Herlihy, 1909-1999
Date Published / Released
1945-04-09, 1945
Publisher
Universal Pictures Company
Series
Universal Newsreels
Speaker / Narrator
Ed Herlihy, 1909-1999
Topic / Theme
Airplanes, International relations, Invasions, Military maneuvers, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, American History, Depression & World War II (1929–1945), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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