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Mixture of scenes from Cairo and Teheran converences with glimpses of Soviet troops on the move and views of bombers and landing craft as well as an atomic test in the Pacific ocean.
Opening scene shows Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek seated with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madam Chiang in their Cairo meeting at a residence of the American Ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, on November 25, 1943, during World War 2. Foreign ministers of the countries stand behind their leaders. Closeups of the three Country's leaders. Scene jumps to Teheran, with Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seated on a veranda of the Soviet Embassy. Suddenly scenes of tanks, trucks, and Soviet troops moving on the Eastern front are seen. Some of the troops move by horse-drawn sleighs through the snow. A line of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers taxiing on an airfield. View from a B-17 in flight. View f as a cluster of bombs falls from B-17 and explodes on the ground. Animated map illustrating paths of aircraft attacks against the German Atlantic Wall from England. Landing craft underway in an amphibious assault. Brief view from a ship of a post-war test atomic explosion in the Pacific ocean
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.
USS Honolulu (CL-48), the USS Helena and St. Louis in the South West Pacific Theater of World War II.
USS Honolulu (CL-48) in the South West Pacific Theater of World War II. A CL (Light Cruiser) underway at sea. Curtiss SOC Seagull aircraft on the deck of a ship. CL fires guns in background. 5 inch AA guns fired. The USS Helena & St. Louis underway. SOC on a catapult. Two CLs in a column. Stern of a ship in foreground. Men lounge aboard a ship.
The USS Helena (CL-50) and the USS St. Louis (CL-49) fire guns in the South West Pacific theater of World War II.
The USS Helena (CL-50) and the USS St. Louis (CL-49) in the South West Pacific Theater of World War II. The USS Helena and the USS St. Louis underway, both firing guns. Crew load and fire 1.1" quadruple mount AA (antiaircraft gun). A sailor sleeps on the deck. Formation of aircraft in sky. CLs (Light Cruisers) underway.
U.S. light cruisers and hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) underway at a sea in the South West Pacific Theater of World War II.
U.S. ships underway at a sea in the South West Pacific Theater of World War II. A shoreline with trees on the beach in background. Formation of 6 aircraft in the sky. CLs (Light Cruisers) underway at the sea. Hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) underway.
Curtiss SOC Seagull aircraft lands on surface of water in the South West Pacific Theater of World War II.
U.S. ships underway at a sea in the South West Pacific Theater of World War II. Curtiss SOC Seagull aircraft lands on the surface of water. SOC hoisted alongside. Men steady it on hook. The pilot talks with sailors on the deck. The SOC taxis near the stern of the USS Honolulu. Sailors on deck of the USS Honolulu (CL-48). Two Light Cruisers underway in background.
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