AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA DRIVE JAPANESE FROM LAE!
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Year Published: 1943
Creator: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: 16mm/video file
Description: National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38977, LI 208-UN-70 - AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA DRIVE JAPANESE FROM LAE! - Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, planes bomb Lae; ships bombard the city; Australian soldiers go ashore in landing craft. Gen. MacArthur confers with officers and then flies in an airborne operation. Paratroops prepare for a mission, man planes, jump over Lae, and join Australian troops in making a landing strip. Part 2, shows the landing at Salerno, Italy. The invasion convoy crosses the Mediterranean. Troops go ashore at night. Navy guns blast enemy positions and down German planes. Shows damaged ships. Gen. Clark comes ashore and confers with Gen. Alexander. Troops dig in and then advance. Shows nurses treating wounded soldiers. German prisoners are moved to the rear.
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