General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Moving Images Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations. 1911 - 1972. UNITED NEWS

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General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Moving Images Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations. 1911 - 1972. UNITED NEWS

1944

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Part 1, P-38 fighter planes strafe Japanese positions on Bougainville in the Solomons and U.S. troops go ashore with equipment and supplies. Part 2, locomotives are constructed in a Canadian factory. Part 3, wounded U.S. ex-POW's are repatriated aboard the hospital ship Acadie. Part 4, U.S. servicemen play an Australian football team in Sydney. Part 5, Gens. Eisenhower and Clark are shown at the front in Cassino, Italy; artillery fires and U.S. troops and tanks advance through ruins. Part 6, B-17 bombers are fueled and take off and bomb occupied Europe.

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