Title:US COMPILATION OF RAF NEWSREEL STORIES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:RMY 92-1
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: I. "Air Army invades Germany." (Universal) 1st Allied Airborne Army Dakotas and Horsa gliders are loaded with US paratroops prior to taking off for the drop across the Rhine near Wesel. Paratroops drop from both sides of Dakota and Horsas are released. Churchill with Eisenhower and General Sir Alan Brooke watches the operation. Horsa and Dakota crash, latter in ball of flame. German prisoners are marched along.
II. "A City dies." (Universal) Lancasters bomb Pforzheim causing massive night fires. "Fires suck oxygen from the air, nothing can live in this inferno."
III. "RAF flies supplies to China over the Himalaya Hump." (Movietone News) RAF Douglas DC-2 in flight over the Himalayas carrying supplies for the cut off armies.
IV. "Blasting Dresden." (Movietone News) Collaborating with the Russian attack through Saxony, RAF bombs this "important industrial centre". "Dresden becomes a fantasy of the destructive pyrotechnics of the air war", over film of comparatively small fires.
V. "The race to Berlin." (Paramount News) US troops form smokescreen before advancing. Film from Russian front shows artillery fire, Stormoviks releasing bombs, T34s advancing and dead and captured Germans. Maps of Reich before US troops knock down German frontier sign, Adolf Hitler Platz and Strasse signs. US Signal Corps film of artillery and street fighting. RAF 22,000 lb bomb on trolley and exploding. German POWs. Simpson, Bradley, Patch, Montgomery, Patton and Eisenhower.
VI. "US-Britain develop jet propelled planes." (RKO Pathe News) First pictures of the Meteor and Airacomet on the ground and taking off.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:RMY 92-1
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945
Production Country: United States of America
GB
Production Details: British Information Services (Production sponsor)
British Movietone News (Production company)
Paramount (Production company)
RKO Pathe (Production company)
Universal (Production company)
Tetunec, Louis (Production individual)
Harris, Bob (Production cast)
Herlihy, Ed (Production cast)
Tetunec, Louis (Production cast)
Thorgersen, Ed (Production cast)
Weyst, Dwight (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Brooke, Alan Francis (person)
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Eisenhower, Dwight David (person)
Bradley, Omar Nelson (person)
Eisenhower, Dwight David (person)
Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Patch, Alexander McCarrell 'Sandy' (person)
Patton, George S. (person)
Simpson, William Hood (person)
British Army, Army, Allied Airborne, 1 (regiment/service)
United States Army & [paratroops] (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
British Army, Signal Corps (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - glider: Airspeed Horsa (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota (object name)
combat, British - airborne attack: paratroops (object name)
prisoners of war, German - movement (object name)
operations, British air - sortie (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Avro Lancaster (object name)
combat, British - air raid (object name)
destruction, German military - area: bomb (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas DC-2 & [British] (object name)
supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc: air (object name)
combat, British - air raid: Dresden (object name)
destruction, German military - area: bomb (object name)
aircraft, Russian - combat: Stormovik (object name)
armour, Russian - tank: T-34 (object name)
casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name)
combat, Allied - artillery bombardment (object name)
prisoners of war, German - custody (object name)
weapons, United States - bomb: 22000-pound (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Gloster Javelin (object name)
aircraft, United States - combat: Bell P-59A Airacomet (object name)
Germany & Rhine (River) (geography)
Germany & Pforzheim, Baden-Wurttemberg (geography)
China & Himalayas (geography)
Germany & Dresden, Saxony (geography)
Germany (geography)
Russia (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 905 ft; Running time: 10 mins
