UNITED NEWS [Series Title]

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  • Title: UNITED NEWS [Series Title]
  • Film Number: UNY 164
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  • Summary: Edition of US-produced wartime newsreel, featuring American victory against Japanese forces on Okinawa, the construction and use of a floating dry dock in the Pacific, General Eisenhower's visit to the grave of President Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York, and the repatriation of American troops by the liner Queen Elizabeth for redeployment to the Pacific theatre.
  • Description: 'Final victory on Okinawa - Allied invade Borneo'; aerial view of a mountain side with a firebomb exploding. A field gun is fired. A cloud of smoke rising. An American artillery captain, using a telephone, yells 'fire!'. Gun in action. Hillside with plumes of white smoke rising. An officer uses a pair of large binoculars or rangefinders. Wide shot; a stream of fire can be seen from a distant flamethrowing tank. Wide shot with troops in the foreground; they watch a flamethrower in action a short distance in front. Infantry advance up a steep hillside, which is smouldering. Dynamiting caves or bunkers. American troops in a shallow trench or ditch two men discuss tactics with hand gestures. Climbing a rocky hillside. Troops walking along hillside. Aerial view, taken over the coast (of southern Okinawa?) with a plume of smoke rising. Air-to-air view of four US Navy Corsair fighters and a United States Army Air Forces P-38 Lightning. The Lightning is marked with a white diamond on its tail and a '1' within it. Wide shots and aerial views of aircraft attacking a hillside with firebombs. Pictures of Tenth Army commander General Simon Buckner, shortly before his death. Wide shot looking down on two Sherman medium tanks going forward across a valley. Wide shot valley with fires and smoke. Shermans firing at targets; one Sherman is marked 'A 30' on its turret. Buckner's group watching. A marine runs across open ground in the distance. Buckner's group. A phosphorous grenade explosion. Close-up of Buckner's grave cross; his dogtag is attached and it is marked simply with an X and 'S. B. Buckner Jr'. A group lay flowers and salute the grave. An American flag is hoisted. A drummer. Parade of troops saluting. At sea in Brunei Bay; vessels of the US Navy Third Fleet bombard the shore. Landing craft head ashore carrying Australian troops. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) named 'Bloomie'. Troops disembark from a small landing craft marked M9, from a Landing Craft Infantry Large (LCI(L)) 744 and vehicles drive ashore from LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) including LST 560. General MacArthur and party come ashore. At sea aboard a US Navy motor torpedo boat on a sortie to raid Japanese oil facilities. Bombardment by 40mm and 20mm guns; fires burn on shore. On boat is identifiable as probably PT-84, of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 13. Wide shot; columns of black smoke rising from fires. 'Floating drydock for Navy's damaged ships'; at an unidentified American shipyard a section of a floating drydock is launched. Aerial view of the section under tow. The assembled drydock at a Pacific island, possibly Aessi, near Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides. Aerial view of the drydock with a merchant ship berthed. A US Navy cruiser, USS Cleveland, enters the submerged drydock. Aerial view of the drydock with a berthed merchant ship. Panning view of USS Cleveland. Men painting a ship's hull and a view of a crane. The flooded drydock with cruiser now floating and reversing from the dock. 'Gen. Eisenhower pays tribute at Roosevelt grave'; at Hyde Park, New York, General Eisenhower lays a wreath at the President Franklin Roosevelt's grave. He is accompanied by Eleanor Roosevelt, the President's widow. 'US troops on the march from Europe to Pacific'; the troopship Queen Elizabeth arrives at New York Harbour carrying returning American soldiers. Aerial view of the Queen Elizabeth. Further views of the ship and people waving to it. Troops disembark carrying kitbags. From the transport USS West Point a party of captured Japanese diplomats, led by Hiroshi Oshima, Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany, disembark. In San Francisco, California (at the San Francisco Army Port of Embarkation?), a party of American troops march off to board a troopship to the Pacific theatre. Ship leaving port. High view of a ship leaving port (taken from the Golden Gate Bridge?). To civilian women wave to the ship as it recedes into the distance.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: UNY 164
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-07-20
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: Office of War Information (Sponsor) United Newsreel Corporation (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: United States Army, 10th Army (regiment/service) Buckner, Simon Bolivar (person) United States Navy, Third Fleet (regiment/service) United States Navy, CLEVELAND (USS) (regiment/service) Eisenhower, Dwight David (person) Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (person) Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (person)
  • Keywords: Washington D.C. (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 870 ft; Running time: 10 mins
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