Description
United News, 1942
U.S. Marines On Guadalcanal Push Back Japanese Troops [Etc.]
Panning view of airfield on Guadalcanal. Shows ground crew pushing a bomb under aircraft.
Cu of general purpose 1000 pound bomb. Nose art on planes read “Boomerang”, another “My Nel II”, another “The Skylark”. Admiral Nimitz decorates General Vandegrift and others. LS of a long column of Marines advancing across the island. CU image of “stacked rifles” with column of Marines in far BG. Marines move along jungle road, resting at an advance base in the Jungle. Marines setting up barbed wire perimeter and “dig-in”. Artillery firing in support of Infantry.
The damaged USS Cruiser Boise makes port with the most amazing record of the war. Six (6) Japanese ships sunk in 27 minutes in the Solomons. The score of sunk enemy ships is painted on the bridge. Admiral King comes aboard to decorate members of the crew and Capt. Mike Moran.
Carlos Arroyo del Rio, President of Ecuador, exits a commercial airliner at Washington National Airport in 1942. Secretary of State Cordell Hull greets the Ecuadorian President as he steps from the plane. Shows President Roosevelt and President Arroyo del Rio at Roosevelt’s automobile.
General Auguste Nogues, Governor of French Morocco, walk pass American troops occupying Casablanca as he comes to meet General Patton. General George S. Patton and French military leaders agree on terms of United States occupation. A Nazi Armistice Commission is rounded up and kept under guard. Barrage balloons protect the harbor at Algiers from low level air attack. French Morocco and Algiers is in American hands. Italian members of the Axis Armistice Commission leaves hotel under American guards and booed as they are driven through the streets of Algiers. Troops of the British 1st Army arrive at port to join Montgomery’s forces.
Across the Mediterranean was the French fleet confined to the harbor at Toulon under Vichy French control. After the Vichy French joined the Allied Forces the ships were scuttled in the harbor to keep them out of German hands. View of the ships of the French Fleet in the harbor at Toulon.
Runtime: 00:07:52
Sound: yes
File: high definition 1920×1080/24p ProRes422.
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