Newsreels: News Of The Day 1943

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Extracted from US Army Air Forces film News of the Day, 1937 - 1943 British Blast Rommel Army Fleeing Libya! The Women's Page: 1943 Fashions For War Workers Sydney Australia With The Yanks On New Guinea Battle Front Home-Coming Of A Hero Ship! New York [Merchant Marine] National Archives description "Summary: Coverage of outstanding news events from 1937 to 1943 including scenes of naval action in the Pacific, the British offensive in Libya, the invasion of North Africa, Battle of Stalingrad, naval action in the Atlantic, troops and sailors training, the rescue of Eddie Rickenbacker, lend lease, the bombing of Genoa, the Hindenburg disaster, and rationing and war productions on the home front. Photographed by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and Twentieth Century Fox. Reel 1: 1) 7' Medium Close Up (MCU) of commentator John B. Kennedy speaking. 2) 22' SENSATIONAL WAR FILM. BRITISH BLAST ROMMEL, ARMY FLEEING LIBYA, NEWS OF THE DAY. 3) 29' Scenes of USAF B-25 bombing desert supply bases, German General Erwin Rommel fleeing invading forces, German fighter falling in flames and British 8th Army troops advancing through rain and mud at Hell Fire Pass; artillery firing and Field Marshal Bernard L. Mon…

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United States. Army Air Forces

Subjects

WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Navy, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, United States. Army, USS San Francisco (CA-38), Merchant Mariners -- United States, USS San Francisco, Rites and Ceremonies, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- New Guinea, Great Britain. -- Army -- Australian And New Zealand Army Corps -- History, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North, World War II: Homefront, World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States, World War II: Women, McCandless, Bruce, World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Australian, Great Britain. -- Army, World War II, Nelson, Donald M., Rommel, Erwin, 1891-1944, Montgomery Of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976, King, Ernest Joseph, 1878-1956, France. -- Army -- Foreign Legion, Lend-lease Operations (1941-1945), World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece, Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945, Dionne Quintuplets, Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969, Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, American, Clark, Mark W. (Mark Wayne), 1896-1984, Merchant Marines, USCGC Spencer (WPG-36), U-175, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations -- Submarine,, Newsreel, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, German, Sikorsky YR-4, Military Helicopters, Anti-submarine Warfare, Christmas, World War, 1939-1945 -- Chile, MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964, Halsey, William Frederick, 1882-1959, Noguès, Auguste-Paul-Charles-Albert, World War, 1939-1945 -- Food Supply, Chaplains, Military -- United States, Washington (DC), Wickard, Claude R. (Claude Raymond),1893-1967, Davis, Elmer Holmes, 1890-1958, Stirling (Bomber), World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Genoa, Lancaster (Bomber), World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, British, Hindenburg (Airship), B-18 Bomber, Langsdorff, Hans Wilhelm, 1894-1939, Admiral Graf Spee (Battleship)

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