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Allied leaders seal Italy's fate (News From Home. No. 54)
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Allied leaders discuss the coming battle for Italy at a conference. Montgomery, Churchill and Roosevelt all appear.F00748
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Attack
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Maker: United States Department of War
The battle for New Britain a United States War Department production photographed by the United States Signal Corps and USAAF. Shows scenes at the 'Overpower' Task Force three staging areas including ...F01928
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Cross channel action
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A combined exercise and operation as Allied Navy and Army units steam to wards the French coast. United States B-26 Marauder aircraft attack targets in Northern France these include a target hidden in...F00807
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1. Europe, pre invasion battle of the air 2. Little ships hit high spots. (News From Home No. 87)
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1. (4 min) Covers Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Squadrons of the USAAF 8th Airforce flying as fighter escorts for B-17 Flying Fortresses. Shots of pilots, P-47 take offs, in flight and gun camera film of ...F00776
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Mission to Wewak
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Maker: 5th Airforce Combat Camera Unit
Covers the raid on the Japanese Fourth Air Army at Wewak on 17 August 1943 by the US Fifth Airforce. General Kenney had ordered an all out assault after intelligence reports of the concentration of Ja...F01898
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Norden bombsight: principles
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A War Department training film 1-871 produced by Army Airforces Training Film production laboratories Wright Field. Uses animated diagrams to show the workings of the Norden bombsight as well as props...F02526
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Photo intelligence of damage assessment
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Maker: First Motion Picture Film Unit Army Air Forces
Official War Department training film I-3340 produced by the 1st Motion Picture Unit Army Airforces. Dramatized account of the method of identification of individual bomb hits by using the bomber's bo...F02322
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South West Pacific Mail No. 2 (News From Home No. 51)
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A report on the general conditions in the islands in the form of a letter from a soldier to his father, read by Jack Davey, Movietone.F00745
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Strategic Port Moresby (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 33)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 33. Port Moresby, New Guinea Australian and American forces in the region are shown for the first time. Aircraft take off and return from missions over Ja...F00355
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The air plan
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Maker: RAF Film Production Unit
A Royal Air Force Film Production Unit promotional film. Introduction title: 'The Normandy campaign was a combined operation by the sea land and air forces of the United Nations. This film sets out to...F02700
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1. The bombing of Cassino 2. Hollandia invasion (News From Home. No. 88)
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Extracts from News From Home No. 88. 1. (4 min 10 sec) Cassino, Italy is almost wiped out by a concentrated aerial bombardment. 2,000 tons of bombs were dropped on the town. However the Germans were w...F00777
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[The bombing of Darwin and aftermath February-March 1942]
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Maker: Sheldon-Collins, Francis
Darwin, Northern Territory, February - March 1942. The scenes (although not in chronological sequence) were taken after the first raid on 19 February and before the second in Mitchell Street from outs...F04775
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Theory of bombing
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Maker: United States Army Signal Corps
Official War Department training film TF- I-2277 produced by the Signal Corps in collaboration with the Chief of Air Corps. Illustrates the basic theory of bombing through the use of animated diagrams...F02496
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Tokyo raid: Japanese murder of US fliers arouses nation. Allied leaders seal Italy's fate (Movietone News)
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1. One year after the event details are revealed of the raid on Tokyo by B-25 Mitchell bombers led by Colonel James Doolittle in April 1942. Revelations that some of the men captured have been execute...F03608
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Whirlwind (World at war)
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Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
The bomber offensive on Germany. Its effect on industry, on German civilians, and on the course of the war.F10222-12