Combat Bulletin No. 52 [video] / produced by Army Pictorial Service Signal Corps

Combat Bulletin No. 52 [video] / produced by Army Pictorial Service Signal Corps

Philippine content: Luzon activities

United States. Army. Signal Corps. Army Pictorial Service.

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English

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"Advance in Italy- The initial stages of the drive which knocked Germany's southern armies out of the war; Activities in European Theatre of Operations- Roadside service stations set up along 7th Army supply lines. Quartermaster and Ordnance salvage operations in Reims, France. Wreckage of Krupp Armament works. Buna rubber plant and V-2 bombs seized by American troops. 9th Army fires captured 30 centimeter rockets; Transportation Methods in China- Additional material on difficulties of transportation of men and material in China, showing problems of road engineering and antiqued trucking facilities; Luzon Activities- Scenes of the fighting southeast of Baguio, clearly showing difficulties of blasting Japs out of hillside caves; Tokyo Strikes- Air Force films of night raids over Tokyo and Kobe, including scenes of Saipan of preparing B-29's for a gunless bombardment mission to Japan; Additional Okinawa Films- Activities on the southern Okinawa front near Naha. Scenes show effort demanded to blast Japs out of well concealed caves and fortifies positions; Attack Kure Naval Base- Carrier planes strike big Jap homeland naval base north of Okinawa."

Extent: (quantity/size) 25 minutes 15 seconds
Media: film / 16mm film/avi 1920x1080 29.97 FPS

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