Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. War Films. 1942 - 1945. FILM COMMUNIQUE FOURTH ISSUE

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. War Films. 1942 - 1945. FILM COMMUNIQUE FOURTH ISSUE

1943

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Reel 1, planes bomb Hansa Bay and fighters at Wewak in New Guinea Planes at Rabaul are strafed. Gun camera footage shows Japanese planes being shot down. Negro troops construct an air field at Munda. Steam rollers level the field. Men relax at the "Munda Cotton Club." Reel 2, an invasion fleet approaches Italy; troops and tanks advance in Italy; civilians welcome Allied troops; rubble and tottering walls are cleared; trucks are mired in the mud; and a pontoon bridge is washed away by a torrential river. Gen. Clark commends U.S. war workers.

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Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

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Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) was born in Madison Barracks, New York. After he graduated from West Point in 1917, he commissioned in the infantry. During World War I, he became wounded in combat while commanding a battalion in France. He served with the War Department General Staff from 1921 to 1924. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College two years later. Between 1940 and 1942, he served at General Headquarters and then Army Ground Forces. He rose ...