American History In Video: United News, Release 29, 1942
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RG 208 UNITED NEWS ROLL 29 UNITED NEWS COPYRIGHT MCMXLIII UNITED NEWSREEL CORPORATION MacARTHUR BLASTS JAPANESE FROM NEW GUINEA
Over New Guinea . Big United States Army transport planes fly troops by the hundreds across the Owen Stanley Mountains for the final Allied assault upon Jap bases on this strategic island on the South Pacific.
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Native tribesmen enthusiastically welcomed the soldiers who have come thousands of miles across the sea to drive the invader from their land.
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For weeks, American and Australian soldiers and marines pressed forward through jungle country, relentlessly driving the Japs back into the sea. Stopping only to re-form their lines, to coordinate their plan of attack, they rest where they can, ammunition always ready.
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A captured machine gun, now turned against the enemy. The American success against the Jap in New Guinea , a saga of courage and bravery in the face of incredible odds.
ROOSEVELT GREETS CUBAN PRESIDENT
Cuba's President arrives in Washington . A Military Guard of Honor salutes the one-time Army Sergeant who now holds his country's highest office. Fulgencio Batista , welcome to the capital. President Roosevelt waits to greet him. A staunch exponent of America's good neighbor policy, President Batista was one of the first to follow the United States in war upon the Axis.
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He meets Vice-President Wallace and the Cabinet, and he's off to inspect United States war plants.
U.S. TRAINING HUGE MERCHANT MARINE!
These are men trained to sail America's fast growing merchant marine, graduates of the greatest school of its kind in the world.
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Ten thousand new able seamen, ready to help the United States Army and Navy deliver the goods to United Nations. First enlistments in a training program that calls for 30,000 United States merchant sailormen every year.
AMERICA IN THE NEWS
On a modest farm in Midwestern United States , the Herrington Family is helping America win this war. In addition to farm chores, they've turned their house into a factory, making machine tools for armament plants. Father and mother working side by side.
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Their sons, even their grandchildren are helping. Producing tools needed for large plants, this farm family's inventive genius is typical of America from coast to coast. High in the mountain ranges along the Pacific, a girl owns and operates one of the busiest chrome mines in the country. Chrome, an essential metal, formerly imported from the Philippines , is needed for war production. Running the mine herself, this typical young American woman is producing some 20 tons of precious metal everyday. Again, this is America , all out for war.
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In Philadelphia , Seaman Norman Saul(ph) comes home, the idol of the neighborhood. When Norman's aunt told officials he was only 14 years old, Norman was sent home, his pay in war bonds, and told to go back to school. His patriotism is appreciated, but 14 is too young for the United States Navy. And here's another, a Marine. In the service a year before they found he was only 13 years old. Yes, they're sending him home to grow up too. Six feet one, a 173 pounds, every inch a typical boy. With fighting spirit like this, America can't lose.
BIG GUNS GUARD U.S. COASTLINE!
United States artillerymen roll out ammunition for the huge disappearing guns that are part of America's elaborate coastal defense system. The charge is run home and from the fire control tower, keen eyes spot the target. America speaks.
BRITISH ROUT NAZIS IN LIBYA
Newest face of the British 8th Army's victory in Libya : General Montgomery , fighting son of an Irish churchman, directing the campaign that is hurling Marshal Rommel and his Nazi Afrikakorps back across the desert in utter collapse. Past wrecked planes blasted from the ground and from the air. 70 percent of the enemy's mechanized equipment smashed in its tracks. Through mud and muck, the longest sustained advance in military history.
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Dirty and begrimed, Nazi General Wilhelm von Thoma , Rommel's second in command, is captured by a British hussar. Arriving at General Montgomery's headquarters, the prisoner was ordered flown to England . Minesweepers: the engineers are the real heroes. Using magnetic detectors, they go ahead of the tanks, clearing the desert of German-planted mine fields. The magnets sound a buzzer when they detect mines hidden in the sand.
Now, infantry to the attack. So swift is the advance that as these pictures are issued, news comes that Rommel's army has been split. Half his force is trapped.
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Pressing ever westward through the smoke of battle, the Allied pincers close on Rommel as he races to join his shattered force with a Nazi army in Tunisia . Rear guards surrender one by one. Eight entire Italian divisions have been knocked out. Four of Germany's famed Afrika Korps division are done for. Down the road named for Italy's late Marshal Balbo , a procession of trucks loaded with captives streams to the rear. Three hundred thousand prisoners taken by the British, their days of fighting over.
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At El Agheila , where Rommel was expected to make a desperate stand, British fighting men see the tide of war turn for the United Nations, as the Union Jack flies over Libya .
UNITED NEWS
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"AMERICA REPORTS ON AID TO ALLIES,1942: 1. Lend-lease shipments are prepared and shipped. President Roosevelt. 2. ground and aerial views of the Canadian ""Mosquito"" bomber and a U.S. Army observation plane. 3. The cruiser San Francisco docks in the U.S. Adm. King. 4. Supplies are carried by trains and trucks in Alaska. 5. A meeting of the U.S. High Command. Personages Gens. Arnold and Marshall, Adms. King, Land, and Leahy, Harry Hopkins, Paul V. McNutt, and Elmer Davis. 6. Launchings of ships. Henry J. Kaiser assembles a model Victory ship. 7. The crew of an aircraft carrier swims in the ocean."