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LA CONQUISTA DE NANCHINO

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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 44507, LI 242-MID-I-26 - LA CONQUISTA DE NANCHINO - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Italian. Series: U.F.A. Newsreels, compiled 1939 - 1940. NEWSREEL: R.1: (1)Japanese planes bomb Nanking. Chinese dead lie in streets. Refugees flee flaming ruins. (2) Japanese planes attack, hit and sink U.S. gunboat PANAY on Yangtze River. Crewmen go ashore in lifeboat withdead and injured. Newsmen interview injured PANAY survivors, as they lie in reeds along river bank. (3) British and U.S. warships at sea. R.2: (1) Japanesefleet at sea. Injured Chinese civilian being treated in Nanking. Chinesetroops retreat and Japanese troops advance with artillery and machine gun fire,and snipers crawl forward. (2) U.S. PNNAY dead brought ashore in flag drapedcoffins. (3) Japanese troops give banzais and enter Nanking with calvary, tanks and artillery as Chinese crowd looks on.

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