Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the "Combat Bulletin" Program Series. 1944 - 1951. ACTIVITIES IN EUROPEAN THEATRE OF OPERATIONS: R.A.F. SINKS THE quot;TIRPITZquot; [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the "Combat Bulletin" Program Series. 1944 - 1951. ACTIVITIES IN EUROPEAN THEATRE OF OPERATIONS: R.A.F. SINKS THE quot;TIRPITZquot; [ETC.]

1944

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Part 1 shows bombings in Sept. and on Oct. 12 when smoke screens saved the battleship, and on Nov. 12 when it was hit 3 times and sunk at Tromso, Norway. Part 2, steel is made and I-beams rolled at the plant in Differdange, Luxembourg. Part 3 recounts May bombings in Belgium and shows ground and aerial views of damage at Malines, Hasselt, Courtrai, and Louvain. Part 4, Gen. Eisenhower inspects positions in France and confers with soldiers (Nov. 10). Shows Generals Simpson, Bradley, McLain and Gerhardt. Shows the flooded Moselle; crossings in assault boats by the 90th Division; snow scenes of French troops in Netherlands (Reel 2); and the 1st Army in Belgium. Part 5, 5th Army troops are stranded in flooded San Lorenzo, Italy, and the 78th Division frees vehicles from mud. Part 6, Army mules are ferried across the Mogaung River in Burma and loaded onto a train. Trees are felled and cut into lumber by the 797th Engineers. Part 7, Generals MacArthur and G.C. Kenney visit the Air Force base on Leyte, Phillipine Islands (Oct. 27). Shows Japanese planes attacking a supply depot and resultant damage, and attacks on ships. Some of the planes are downed; one crashes into an LCI.

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