WAR IN THE PACIFIC [ETC.]

Year Published: 1941

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38913, LI 208-UN-8 - WAR IN THE PACIFIC [ETC.] - Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, Japanese planes attack a troop convoy off New Guinea. Antiaircraft guns repulse the enemy and the convoy unloads at Port Moresby. The aircraft carrier Yorktown is bombed off Midway Island. Part 2, Brazilians are inducted en masse into the army in Rio de Janeiro. U.S. and Guatemalan troops parade in Guatemala City. Part 3, shows an ice carnival in Rockefeller Center, New York City. Part 4, navigators check their courses as planes fly in a practice bombing mission. Marines learn to swim in the ocean. Part 5, U.S. troops and equipment are unloaded at a port in India. A camel caravan carries supplies into Burma as Indian troops move up through jungle terrain.

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