Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States.From of the United News collection, a World War II news series created to boost morale at home and abroad.
LATEST NEWS FILMS FROM THE TUNISIAN BATTLE FRONT!,1943: 1. Soldiers attend a religious service. Tanks and artillery bombard German positions. 2. Construction on a highway between Panama and Mexico City. 3. Air defenses of Washington, DC. 4. Cows and sheep in Australia. 5. A Coast Guard cutter fires at a German submarine. 6. Flying Fortresses bomb a German submarine base.
U.S. BOMBS JAPANESE FROM NEW BASE IN THE ALEUTIANS,1943: 1. U.S. Troops land on one of the Aleutian Islands. Airplanes take off from an island. 2. The Dionne quintuplets are present as 5 vessels are launched. 3. Tanks of the British 8th Army roll in Tunisia. Gen. Montgomery and Gen. Eisenhower meet. Allied artillery blasts Nazi positions.
UNITED NATIONS LEADERS CONFER WITH ROOSEVELT,1943: 1. President Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Winston Churchill, and Eduard Benes meet at the White House. 2. Canadian Timber is processed in a lumber mill. 3. Woodrow Wilson sees the take off of the first air mail plane. 4. Henry Kaiser inspects a Kaiser steel mill in California. Tanks roll from assembly line. 5. U.S. Troops land on Attu Island. Australian planes bomb Japanese bases in New Guinea. Gen. Chennault inspects the 14th Air Force in China. Flying Forts bomb Crete and Sardinia.
NEW RESERVISTS SWELL RANKS OF AMERICAN NAVY,1943: 1. Sailors train, eat, and parade. 2. Surf riding in Australia. 3. The 2nd Army and the British 8th Army capture Bizerte and are welcomed by citizens. Hordes of German prisoners are captured. Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery. 4. Gen. Marshall attends a meeting of the allied war council. The council on the White House lawn.
U.S. FORCES BLAST JAPANESE FROM ATTU,1943: 1. An amphibious landing in the Aleutian Islands. 2. Depth charges are dropped and a German submarine which tried to attack a convoy surfaces. 3. Clean-up operations in Tunis. Hordes of German soldiers are captured. British, troops are warmly greeted by citizens. Gen. Giraud reviews French troops.
514 WEST POINT CADETS GRADUATE INTO U.S. ARMY,1943: 1. Gen. Arnold presents "wings" to future Army Air Force officers. 2. Gunder Hagg, Swedish track star begins training in the U.S. 3. The British Navy captures German troops attempting to escape off the African coast. Gens. Eisenhower and Giraud review a French-American military parade. 4. Planes bomb German bases in France. Liberator planes strike Japanese bases in the Solomons.
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