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Bob Hope introduces Patty Thomas who performs a dance for U.S. soldiers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II.

American entertainers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II. Comedian Bob Hope acts as the Master of the Ceremony at USO show and introduces Patty Thomas. Patty performs a dance for the audience of U.S. Army soldiers and Navy sailors.

Location: Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944, August 2
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057650
Jerry Colonna and Bob Hope perform for U.S. soldiers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II.

American entertainers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II. Comedian Bob Hope acts as the Master of the Ceremony and introduces comedian Jerry Colonna. Jerry sings a song as Tony Romano plays a guitar. Bob Hope and a man perform to amuse U.S. soldiers.

Location: Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944, August 2
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057651
Frances Langford performs for U.S. soldiers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II.

American entertainers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II. Comedian Bob Hope acts as the Master of the Ceremony and introduces singer Frances Langford. Hope and Langford crack a few jokes to entertain U.S. soldiers. Langford sings and Tony Romano plays a guitar behind her.

Location: Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944, August 2
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057652
Movies are transported for soldiers who watch a film on Bougainville Island during World War II.

Work of the United Service Organizations (USO) on Bougainville Island during World War II. Soldiers enter a theater. They watch a movie. Soldiers set up a projector system in a camp. Tents in the background. The soldiers dance. An aircraft takes off. Crates of movies unloaded from the aircraft. A soldier sits on a truck. Soldiers come out of a foxhole. A board outside a tent reads 'Bougainville Roxy Theater, tonights feature'. The soldiers enter the tent. Soldiers carrying tables and chairs walk. A soldier gets seated.

Location: Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058024
Sailors work to extinguish fire on Allied ships at the Tunis Port following aerial attack in North Africa Campaign.

Allied ships on fire in Tunis Port during the North African Campaign. View on shore as a U.S. Navy sailor and a camera man operating a moving image camera view the fire blazing in the harbor on a sunny day. Black and white smoke clouds arise from the ships. Flames leap upward on the ships. Sunken ships in the water. U.S. Navy sailors use water hoses to extinguish the fires at the bow of a ship. Charred gun on the bow of the ship. Sailors survey remains of burned ships and damage at harbor. Men extinguish the fire with water hoses. (This is possibly footage of the surprise day time raid by German Luftwaffe aircraft attacking Allied ships at Tunis harbor on May 19, 1943, six days after the Axis surrender in North Africa.)

Location: Tunis Tunisia Tunis Port
Date: 1943, May
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020443
General Dwight D. Eisenhower meets Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham at Tunis Port during the North Africa Campaign

On shore at Tunis harbor, a British Navy officer gives a sword salute to a senior Naval officer in World War II. U.S. Navy and British Royal Navy sailors lined up on either side of dock for a salute. General Dwight D. Eisenhower accompanied by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and other British and American Navy officers walk past the sailors in review. Cunningham has a walking cane hooked over his left forearm but does not use it. The Union Jack and the British Royal Navy flag are visible. Ship at dock in the background. Eisenhower and Cunningham and the other officers pause and greet in front of a waiting Royal Navy car, RN ME 4096, parked on shore. Eisenhower, Cunningham, and another British officer enter the waiting car and it leaves, passing by a Allied landing ship with number 5 seen on its bow, anchored at the port. Closeup view of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly and another U.S. Navy officer watching after the car drives away. Honor guard sailors march with rifles, departing the dock after the officers leave. (Eisehhower visited Tunis for meetings with British and U.S. Navy officers May 11-13, 1943. This footage is likely during those 3 days.)

Location: Tunis Tunisia Tunis Port
Date: 1943, May
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020444
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