Summary: Newsreel showing the landings on Los Negros Island and the air strikes against Truk, February 1944.
Description: Graphic illustrate the location of the Admiralty Islands LS of cruiser bombarding coast. LSTs go in. Despite softening up there was hard fighting. MS of troops crouching behind a bank - one holds a Thompson. Grenade thrown. 75mm howitzer. 81mm mortar. Stretcher bearers. Majority of American casualties caused by snipers. LS of US troops advancing across open ground. Radio man carrying M1. Abandoned, partially camouflaged, Nakajima Ki43-II. Many Japanese committed suicide - MCU of ground littered with corpses. Graphics show the location of the Carolines, where the Americans attack Truk, once a great fleet anchorage and still a Japanese stronghold. LS of US fleet. Carrier pilots board Dauntless aircraft. Gun-camera film of minesweeper being strafed; tracers go out against distant Zero; naval auxiliary is strafed (HIJMS Hakachi?) LS of smoke pall over island. Various shots as parked planes, airstrip and oil storage facilities are strafed and bombed. Japanese Army and Navy chiefs were dismissed following the successful American attacks. The aircraft return - MS as Dauntless comes in on one wheel; Avenger is manhandled on deck of Essex Class aircraft carrier and wounded pilot removed on a stretcher.
