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A 1942-1943 film report to the American public about the progress of World War II in Europe and the Pacific.
Opening slate at start of film reads: "1942--1943 The Turn of the Tide." A column of British armor enters Bengazi, Libya, led by several troops in tankettes. Next seen are a Lee Medium Tank, M3 followed by an infantry tank, a jeep, another infantry tank and another Lee M3 Medium tank. Closeup of local people greeting the troops with upraised hands giving the "V" for victory sign. Another Lee M3 tank passes close by the camera. Black smoke is rising in the background. Scene changes to a half sunken ship near another burning in the harbor. Another view of this from further away above port buildings. Closeup of three smiling British soldiers leaning over a cartoon on a tank, of Winston Churchill (As a bulldog smoking a cigar and wearing a cap with the word "Victory" written on it). A crumpled captured flag with swastika on it. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery stands atop a vehicle (unseen) and looks through binoculars. Below, a column of British supply vehicles is making its way along a path in the desert. Two tanks coming toward the camera through sand. Animated map shows Nazi territory being threatened by the Allies from the Mediterranean, the USSR, and the English Channel. Views of Soviet infantry advancing against German forces in the snow of winter on the eastern front. Soviet troops firing updated 76-mm divisional gun model 1902 hidden in woods. Shells exploding in snow-covered field as Soviet BT series tanks advance. Various Soviet artillery firing from fixed gun batteries and from woods. A shell striking in distance. Fallen German soldiers lying on snowy field. Makeshift battlefield crosses marking graves of fallen German soldiers. German steel helmets lined up in the snow. A sign, posted on a birch tree, lists the names and birth dates of 16 German soldiers from the 3rd Panzer Division (3Pz-Pi-BH.39) buried at this site on November 28, 1941. Scene shifts to Joseph Stalin addressing Soviet troops in Red Square, Moscow, Russia. All the soldiers in formation seem to be singing (unheard). Film switches to animated map again. This time delineating the Eastern front being pressed by the USSR, and showing area of the 2nd Soviet winter offensive in 1943. Change of scene from Europe to the War in Asia, against Japan, shows General Douglas MacArthur after arriving by a B-17 bomber at a Pacific island American base. He ascends a steep hill in a jungle area, accompanied by other officers. Closeup of MacArthur. American infantry moving in single file in New Guinea, as a field piece fires a round in the direction they are headed. U.S. artillerymen load shells into a 105mm howitzer gun. A fire burns as moping up begins on New Guinea. An Australian soldier is seen firing a Bren gun in jungles. Other Australian soldiers fire a mortar that explodes, raising earth and dust. More views of shells exploding near Allied soldier advancing. A soldier with fixed bayonet makes a fake charge toward the camera. Views of Japanese prisoners of war guarded in an outdoor compound. Japanese dead soldiers on Guadalcanal. An animated map shows new battle lines in the Pacific, closing in on Japan, with pressure from China, the USSR, and the Pacific islands being captured by the U.S. Arrows are added showing new pressure from American naval fleets and from British and American bombers out of Australia and captured islands.
Japanese parachute troops Capture Palembang Airbase during World War 2
Japanese propaganda film "War Record of Nippon Parachute Troops", in English, made during World War 2. Japanese Para Troops check their parachutes and board transport air crafts. Planes take off from Malay air base in Malaysia to capture Allied air base in Palembang, Indonesia. Naval ship in waters of 'Straits of Malacca'. Japanese parachute troops jump off the airplanes over Palembang air base near River Musi as Allied forces fire anti aircraft guns. Japanese exchange gunfire with Dutch Allied troops. Japanese paratrooperss capture Palembang airbase. Wreck of Allied fighter aircraft and abandoned anti aircraft guns.
A Japanese naval officer announces in Japan.
A Japanese naval officer announces the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse in the Malay Sea. Japanese newsmen take notes.
Footage of the Japanese South Seas Force on New Guinea following the dual invasions of Lae and Salamaua, in World War II.
Scenes from the Japanese South Seas Force invasion of coastal New Guinea in March 1942, during World War 2. Stern of a ship. Smoke rising from a ship in the far background. Japanese warships underway at sea, mountains in the background. A Japanese man on deck of warship, paints picture of historic naval victory. Animated map showing Northern Australia and New Guinea, with animated bombs falling on Port Moresby and flags showing Japanese-held positions at Lae and Salamaua on the coast of the Solomon Sea, to the North. A view of the coastline on the Solomon Sea. Japanese troops are seen in a column making their way through the jungles.They stand with the rising sun battle flag and proceed further, pulling field pieces and carrying other war materiel. View from inside a dwelling, as the Japanese troops enter town of Lae. Destroyed hangars and aircraft at the Lae airfield, which the Japanese bombed on January 21, 1942. The Japanese rising sun flag flying on a tall flag pole. Japanese ships in harbor.
Allied Leaders confer and plan during World War II
Opening slate reads: "Cairo and Teheran." A view of the world turning, accompanied by voice of President Franklin Roosevelt broadcasting a Christmas messeage to the Armed Forces in 1943, during World War 2. Glimpses of families and people abroad listening to the President on radio. Views of Moscow and the Kremlin in the Soviet Union. British, American, and Soviet flags on a desktop at the Moscow conference in October, 1942. Camera shows Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov, Anthony Eden and Cordell Hull signing documents and then shaking hands. View of great pyramid of Cheops and the Sphinx. Closeup of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek at the Cairo Conference. Wider view of them with their respective military Commanders standing behind them. A view showing Madam Chian Kai-Shek seated near and conversing with Winston Churchill. Animated map of China. Illustration of a book entitled: "The Tanaka Memorial." Warships firing their guns. U.S. Marines in Landing Vehicles Tracked on amphibious assault of a Pacific island. Marines ashore in combat. More views of U.S. Navy ships bombarding Japanese-held islands and of U.S. forces in amphious assaults. Glimpses of fighting in jungles. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PB4Y-2S Privateer aircraft in flight. Bombs dropping from aircraft. Australian and New Zealand forces firing artillery in jungles. Dutch soldiers in a landing ship. British soldiers in a landing craft. Australian soldiers moving onto an island. At TC:03:38, a flight of three Flying Tiger P-40 airplanes are seen flying in fornation. Geralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek walks among Chinese soldiers. American Flying Tiger pilots walk toward their P-40 airplanes parked in line on a ramp. One taxiis out for takeoff. A B-17 bomber taking off from a foreign airfield. Closeup of General George Marshall with General Douglas MacArthur. Admiral Nimitz conversing with U.S. officers on a captured Japanese Island.
American and Australian troops advance during the New Guinea Campaign.
1942-43: U.S. transport planes parked on an airstrip during the New Guinea Campaign in Papua New Guinea. Paratroopers board the planes and they take off. Supplies are parachuted from U.S. transport planes to Australian troops in the jungles. Australian troops advance amidst heavy fire in the jungles. Machine gun nests. Machine gunners and riflemen load and fire at the enemy. Natives carry wounded soldiers on stretchers. A soldier helps another wounded comrade across a stream. (World War II period).
