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

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

1944

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Newsreel for Industrial workers. Reel 1, Sgt. C.E. Kelly receives the Medal of Honor from Gen. Clark in Italy, flies home to Pittsburg, and observes armament production. Carrier planes take off and bomb a Japanese ship. Antiaircraft guns down Japanese planes. Shows gun camera footage of the strafing of a Japanese carrier Reel 2; a burning plane returns from a mission; assault boats head for the Saipan beach. Troops salvage abandoned equipment in Italy: Italian workers repair clothing. Barges are loaded with salvaged materiel. Shows artillery firing; troops fighting in Cherbourg: and planes strafing German vehicles and planes.

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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 ...