Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. HEAVY RAINS SLOW ALLIED ADVANCE ON ITALIAN FRONT [ETC.]

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

DigitalArchivalResource

Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. HEAVY RAINS SLOW ALLIED ADVANCE ON ITALIAN FRONT [ETC.]

1944

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/38991

Part 1, soldiers and equipment advance. Gen. Mark Clark and his troops eat doughnuts. An army chaplain holds mass and wounded soldiers are treated. Part 2, aerial and amphibious assaults are made against Makin Island, in the Gilbert group, and New Britain. Troop reinforcements land on Bougainville, in the Solomons. A carrier task force battles Japanese kamikaze planes off the Marshall Islands.

eng, Latn

National Archives at College Park

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6445120

National Archives at College Park

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t72zj6 (person)

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 ...