SWPA News

Accession Number F00446
Collection type Film
Measurement 42 min 50 sec
Object type Newsreel
Physical description 16mm/b&w/sound
Place made Atlantic Ocean, Germany, Philippines: Leyte, Tunisia: Tunis, United Kingdom: England, United States of America, United States of America: Washington DC
Date made 1943-1944
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A collection of South West Pacific Area (SWPA) news items from 1943 to 1944. Opens with titles SWPA news. 'First authentic film of US Navy's victory in the Philippines. Gallant death of the carrier Princeton.' Shows the loss of the US Navy carrier USS Princeton in the Sibuyan Sea during the Battle for Leyte Gulf on October 24 1944. Title: 'US Navy's official analysis of victory over Jap fleet'. Shows the course of the battle using animated maps and drawings. Title: 'Bong 40 plane ace gets highest awards'. Shows the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honour to Richard Bong by General MacArthur at Talcloban airfield on Leyte, Philippines. Title 'How Britain beat robomb peril' Shows the British anti aircraft gun in action against the German V1 flying bombs. Film includes scenes of direct hits on V1 flying bombs. Title: 'Washington hails president's return'. Shows the return to the US of President Roosevelt. Roosevelt's return speech is on camera. Title: 'Sydney beauty draws wolves (actually)'. Show the work of the Tivoli show girl artist Dawn Anderson. Title: ' Army gives Irish worst defeat 59-0'. Shows the American foot ball match between West Point and Notre Dame Colleges.Title ' Armies of the world enlist to fight Axis'. Shows Free French, Foreign Legion and French Colonial troops in North Africa to fight against the Axis forces. Title: 'Carrier revealed as base air raid on Tokyo'. Coverage of the Doolittle raid where US Army Air Corps B-25 bombers were flown from the USS Hornet to strike targets in Japan. Title 'Latest Films from the Tunisian Front'. Shows Allied troops sightseeing and captured German and Italian POWs. Title: 'Army Engineers speed new Inter American route'. Shows the construction of the new military highway to link Panama and Mexico City. Title 'Army tests Washington's defenses'. Shows the anti aircraft defences to protect the US capital. Ranchers round up herds to supply meat for Allies. Shows cattle production in Australia and sheep production in North America. Title: 'Patrol boat sinks Nazi U-boat in North Atlantic'. Shows the attack and aftermath of the sinking German submarine by a US Coast guard cutter. title 'Allied bombers blast Germany in daylight raid'. Shows attack on German U-boat base by B-17 bombers. Allies bomb Axis on all fronts! British Hudson bombers attack German targets in occupied France. First World War ace Eddie Rickenbacker talks with General Doolittle in North Africa. US Bombers attack the Sicilian port of Marsala. B-24 Liberators in action on a raid against the Japanese. US operations in the Aleutians showing US bombers attacking the Japanese held Island of Kiska. US P39 and P38 fighters landing on flooded airfield on Attu Island. Title: 'United Nations enter Tunis in triumph'. Shows French troops escorting captured Axis prisoners. Captured Axis Commanders Italian Field Marshal Giovanni Messe and Colonel General Jurgen von Arnim commander of all the Axis forces in North Africa. The British 1st and 8th Armies welcomed in the streets. French troops victory parade. Title: 'Mop up in the Palaus'. Shows the US Army's 81st (Wildcat ) Division in action against the Japanese on Angaur Island.

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