FLYING FORTS BATTLE NAZIES OVER GERMANY [ETC.]
Channel: PublicResourceOrg
Date: 2011-03-26

FLYING FORTS BATTLE NAZIES OVER GERMANY [ETC.] - National Archives and Records Administration 1943 - ARC 38983, LI 208-UN-76 - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.  Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945.  Part 1, Flying Forts bomb industrial cities in Germany and battle German interceptor planes. Part 2, Gens. Stilwell and Somervell and Lord Mountbatten arrive in India for a conference. Part 3, shows scenes in Naples after the German retreat. A delayed action bomb explodes in a post office building killing several civilians. Part 4, the liner Normandie, recently salvaged, is moved from her pier in New York to be refitted. Part 5, Americans vote in several cities. Personages: Thomas Dewey, Wendell Willkie, Pres. Roosevelt. Part 6, Australian troops advance in New Guinea across wet, jungle terrain.