Combat Bulletin #62 Redeployment Operations, Etc 1945

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U.S. Army Combat Bulletin newsreel #62, 1945. Title Cards: Redeployment Operations ETO: Activities in European Theater of Operations - Wieringermeer Polder Pacific: Cavitizing Shells For V-T Fuses Pacific: Okinawa Pacific: Recent Jap Attacks On Fleet Description at the National Archives: "Part 1: Shows activities at a redeployment camp in Leghorn, Italy; vehicles are overhauled; surgical instruments are cleaned and packed; rifles are packed in grease; trucks and ships are loaded; troops are processed. Part 2: Dutch are evacuated from floods caused by the German destruction of dikes. German prisoners in Norway and the Netherlands remove land mines. Shows criminals of war before and after being discharged from the German army. Part 3: Shows the use of a special drill for enlarging the cavity on artillery shells for V-T fuses. Part 4: Shows activities on Okinawa: 75mm and 57mm recoilless rifles are test fired; General Richardson visits General Buckner's grave; General Arnold and General Kenney arrive for a meeting; troops battle (Reel 2) final enemy positions (June). Tanks and infantry use flamethrowers, grenades, explosives, and other weapons in the battle. Japanese surrender, are in…

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United States. Army

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Combat Bulletin, Newsreel, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, American, World War II, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, WWII, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island, USS Saratoga (CV-3), World War, 1939-1945, Richardson, Robert C. (Robert Charlwood), 1882-, Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950, Kenney, George C. (George Churchill), 1889-1977, USS Saratoga, Kamikaze pilots -- Japan

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