Description
United Newsreel, 1942.
U.S. bombers assembled at a secret Australian aerodrome (airfield) take off and blast Japanese bases. Image of General Ralph Royce and Brigadier-General Martin Scanlon. Martin B-26 Marauder Bomber taxi and take-off. Bombers in flight. Shows Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter takes off. Shows damage to bombers after return to base. Show crash landing of U.S. bomber with landing gear jammed. General Ralph Royce congratulates the pilot.
America honors American nurses that served under fire in the Philippines. Mrs. Roosevelt looks on as six nurses receive medals for valor. On the home front women aid the war effort by operating a lumber mill. Women test tanks on the proving grounds, women fire machine guns on the firing range, women fire anti-aircraft battery. Women workers replace men during WWII.
Shows huge industrial plants and steel mills in the 1940’s, smoke pouring from smokestacks creating air pollution. Large iron ore lake freighters rush iron ore to steel mills. Image of iron ore freighter. View of largest open pit iron ore mine in the world. Iron ore is dug from open pit iron ore mine by massive electric shovel. Image of electric shovel. Electric shovel loads railway car. Ore train travel to ore dock. Shows loading iron ore onto ore freighter. Iron ore freighter underway. Lake ore freighter plows through ice on the Great Lakes. Various scenes of steel mills.
Tennis champions in title match. Donald Budge Beats Bobby Riggs At Forest Hills, Long Island for the National Professional Tennis Championship. Footage of a tennis match. Close-up image of Donald Budge and Bobby Riggs.
U.S. Navy pilots test the Martin Mars, world’s largest flying boat. Shows the take-off and maiden flight of the Navy flying boat ‘Mars’
New Canadian built sub-chaser war on German U-boats. Canadian submarine chaser test new submarine gun and launch more powerful anti-submarine depth charge. Shows launch of depth charge and depth charge explosion in the water.
Runtime: 00:09:40
Sound: yes
File: high definition 1920×1080/24p ProRes422.
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