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Universal Newsreels, Release 281, March 30, 1944
in Universal Newsreels, Release 281 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1944, originally published 1944), 8 mins
This video, published by Universal Pictures Company Inc., is about the Battle of Anzio and a battle at Truk.
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in Universal Newsreels, Release 281 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1944, originally published 1944), 8 mins
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This video, published by Universal Pictures Company Inc., is about the Battle of Anzio and a battle at Truk.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL
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U. S. VICTORY AT TRUK
The U.S. Navy makes history as a huge task force assembles to attack the highly publicized "impregnable fortress of Truk." Planes zoom from expansive carrier decks, and before long...
This video, published by Universal Pictures Company Inc., is about the Battle of Anzio and a battle at Truk.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL
'SCOOP'
Build up a Newsreel Following for Your Theatre with the 'Scoop Newsreel of the World
(illegible text)
U. S. VICTORY AT TRUK
The U.S. Navy makes history as a huge task force assembles to attack the highly publicized "impregnable fortress of Truk." Planes zoom from expansive carrier decks, and before long, Truk is observed, stretched out below like a diagram on a drafting table.
Cocky Jap interceptors bear in for the attack--and they are blown out of the skies, by uncanny machine gun fire, and clouds of rising anti-aircraft fire. Then our planes dive on acres of grounded Jap planes and riddle them to Kingdom Come. They dive on oil tanks and spew lead streams into them, until they burst into flames.
In the harbor, freighters are split in two and destroyers are destroyed, as the craft are zealously strafed and bombed.
Back on a carrier, we watch two damaged U.S. Navy planes land--one comes in on one wheel, and from the other, a seriously wounded pilot is carried away.
Over 200 Jap planes are destroyed, forty vessels are sunk or badly damaged, and Truk is proved vulnerable to superior American equipment and men. What a "sweet day" for the U.S. Navy.
G.I. FLORAL WEDDING
ORTING, WASH.--When the fields of daffodils burst into bloom in Puyallup Valley, they cast such a spell on Sergeant William Melnick and "Wac" Clara Owens, that their marriage takes place, right in the flower fields, with scores of G.I.'s and millions of flowers forming their court.
MEDICAL CORPS IN ITALY
Hospital trains, completely equipped, and staffed by U.S. Army nurses, care for American wounded who are in transit to the rear, for final cure.
6-TON BOMBS
The R.A.F. reveals its latest bomb, which is labeled -- "the most remarkable engineering feat of the war." It dwarfs a mere 1,000 lb. bomb, when placed alongside it.
SHELLS OF PAPER
ITALY -- French 105-mm. howitzers bombard Nazi lines with weekly newspapers printed in German, that delineate the true situation on the Russian front, Hollow shells do the trick.
"NO DEPRESSION"
MILWAUKEE, WISC.--Wendell Willkie reviews huge "balloon" parade typifying local citizenry's determination that no depression shall follow the present war.
IN THE CATACOMBS
NETTUNO BEACHHEAD--An amazing system of subterranean caves are used by the Allies for operational headquarters. It is a military city underground.
PRISON SHIP CRACKS UP
ITALY--Headed to Naples from Anzio, an LST boat (being utilized as a prison ship) piles up on a pile of jutting rocks. Dramatic rescue scenes precede the ship's final splitting up, and plunge into the deep.
RUINS OF ST. ELIA
Ruined masonry acts as a sorry background for the broken hearts of sobbing Italian natives, who dejectedly huddle their children and themselves into U.S. trucks for transfer out of the battle zones.
L.A. RODEO
Los Angeles Coliseum, Calif.--This scene of the '32 Olympics is graced with prancing beasts and falling star-riders. Then the Brahma bulls mop up the ground with the boys.
VOL. 17--281
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Date Written / Recorded
1944
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Ed Herlihy, 1909-1999
Date Published / Released
1944-03-30, 1944
Publisher
Universal Pictures Company
Series
Universal Newsreels
Speaker / Narrator
Ed Herlihy, 1909-1999
Topic / Theme
Bombardment, Navy bases, Naval battles, Battle of Anzio, Italy, January 22-June 5, 1944, War and Violence, American History, Depression & World War II (1929–1945), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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