American History In Video: United News, Release 28, 1942
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RG 208 UNITED NEWS ROLL 28 UNITED NEWS COPYRIGHT MCMXLII UNITED NEWSREEL CORPORATION BRITISH PURSUE ROMMEL IN LIBYA
Narrator A mass of wreckage, tanks and guns, marks the wake of Field Marshall Rommel's flight across the desert. Nazi planes blasted on the ground and in the sky, lie half-buried beneath the hot and shifting African sands.
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Narrator In pursuit of the main force go tanks of Britain's victorious 8th Army, spearhead of an advance that covered 100 miles in a single day.
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Narrator Over roads flooded by torrential rainfall, General Montgomery pushes on. Careful to protect his ever-lengthening supply line, he establishes bases along the way.
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Narrator Matruh , once an important harbor, is littered with wrecked Axis supply ships, giant Nazi sea planes that never got off the water. Nazis left to fight rear guard actions are captured. Italians drive their own trucks to prison camps behind the lines. Guards are hardly needed. The captives show no inclination to escape. Even high Nazi officers are taken in the rout of Rommel . Human wreckage, bearing witness to one of the greatest military collapses in history.
NEW ROUTE LINKS U.S. AND ALASKA
Narrator Atop a new Yukon trail, a few miles from the Alaskan border, men of the famous Canadian Mounted Police join in opening the new United States to Alaska Highway, one of the greatest roadbuilding feats of all time. Officials cut the ribbon barrier in simple tribute to the American army engineers who blazed the vital pathway through the Arctic wilderness. Completed months ahead of schedule, the new 1600-mile Alaskan highway sees the first truck convoy begin to roll. A new northwest passage linking the United States with Alaska .
ALLIES DRIVE ON IN NEW GUINEA
Narrator Allied troops, Australians and Americans under General McArthur , push on past captured tanks in their drive to blast the Jap from New Guinea . Along the beaches, they find Jap landing boats, wrecked and abandoned, their sides riddled with gunfire. Here, a group of Australians with a captured Japanese battle flag. Through the muddy, green-walled jungle, troops advance with guns ready, their helmets camouflaged against snipers that lurk on all sides.
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Narrator American howitzers miraculously flown from the mainland are pulled by sheer manpower across the wild Owen Stanley Mountains, pulled by men straining and sweating every foot of the way. Lookout posts, high in trees, watch for supply planes, supplies that are dropped like manna from heaven. Food and ammunition for troops that are winning their war against nature and the Jap.
U.S. CARRIER BEATS OFF AIR ATTACK!
Narrator Somewhere in the Pacific, an unnamed United States aircraft carrier prepares for action. Contact with the enemy is established, and fighter planes take off to attack. Guns are made ready. A Jap plane is met with a hale of anti-aircraft fire.
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Narrator Suddenly, an explosion on the after deck. A Jap bomber has scored a hit. Gunners keep right on blazing away. Fire fighters and relief crews spring into action, but wait, looking aloft, they sight another dive-bomber screaming in for the kill. As the deck crew seeks cover, the Navy cameraman filming this picture sticks to his post.
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Narrator A gaping bomb hole reveals the damage, but it hasn't silenced the gunners. They're still firing away, and now, they've scored a hit.
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Narrator There, blazing in the sea, are two Jap bombers blasted to bits. Now, the carrier is fighting two foes, Fire at sea and enemy planes. Calmly, the crew works to keep the flames from spreading, and they do a seaman-like job.
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Narrator Racing against time and the enemy, the carrier crew is magnificent.
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Narrator Her port gun smashed with that first hit on the flight deck, the carrier flashes word to her escort, "We're still full of fight." The flight deck repaired, all planes accounted for. Action in the Pacific with a United States carrier.
BIGGEST WARSHIPS LAUNCHED BY U.S.
Narrator One year after entering the war, United States' gains in naval tonnage shatter all records. Here, the Belleau Wood, laid down as a cruiser, goes down the ways, the third aircraft carrier launched within three months.
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Narrator At another shipyard, the carrier Bunker Hill is launched, one of 26 ships to slide down the ways in a single day.
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Narrator Queen of them all, the giant new USS New Jersey, mightiest battleship ever built. Five stories high, she's the fastest afloat. Armament and guns, naval secrets, the New Jersey will soon be in action with the fleet.
AUSTRALIAN HEROES HOME ON LEAVE
Narrator Sidney, Australia gives a Heroes' Welcome to their own veterans home on leave from the war. Veterans of campaigns in Greece and Libya , Crete and Syria , they've come a long way for this tribute, and they've earned it.
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Narrator Governor General Lord Gowry takes the salute as the brigade passes in review. Hard fighters, they're stout Allies in the cause of the United Nations.
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Narrator The crowd, swept by a motion, breaks from the sidewalk to march with the troops. Their leave is short, but today they're the men of the hour.
UNITED NEWS
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BRITISH PURSUE ROMMEL IN LIBYA,1942:1. Tanks of the British 8th Army roll past the wreckage of Rommel's Afrika Corps in Libya. Supply bases established on the British route. 2. Canadian mounted police officially open the Alcan highway near Alaska and truck convoys roll northward. 3. Allied troops advance through wet New Guinea jungles and are supplied from the air. 4. Carrier-based planes fight Japanese planes off New Guinea. A carrier is set afire but remains afloat.
UNITED NEWS
Produced by United Newsreel Corporation RELEASED: December 10, 1942Contents Sheet No. 28
1) British pursue Rommel in Libya
tanks of the Brit. 8th Army roll past the wreckage of Rommel's Afrika Corps in Libya. Shows supply bases established on the British route.
2) New route links U. S. and Alaska
Canadian mounted police officially open the Alcan highway near Alaska and truck convoys roll northward.
3) Allies drive on in New Guinea
allied troops advance through wet New Guinea jungles and are supplied from the air.
4) U. S. carrier beats off air attack
carrier-based planes fight Japanese planes off New Guinea. A carrier is set afire but remains afloat.
5) Biggest warships launched by U. S.
New Jersey are launched.
6) Australian heroes home on leave
a mammoth parade in Sydney honors returning Australian troops.