Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. AIR FORCES BATTLE JAPANESE FOR PACIFIC BASES [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. AIR FORCES BATTLE JAPANESE FOR PACIFIC BASES [ETC.]

1943

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Part 1, Liberators bomb the Solomon Islands. Navy construction battalions build an airstrip in the Gilbert Islands. Part 2, oversized locomotives for use in India are constructed in a Canadian factory. Part 3, the hospital ship Acadia docks and wounded are unloaded. Part 4, U.S. servicemen stage an Army-Navy football game in Sydney, Australia. Part 5, Gen. Eisenhower and Gen. Clark survey the Italian front south of Cassino. 5th Army troops enter the town of Lagone. Part 6, allied planes bomb Occupied France.

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