COMBAT BULLETIN NO CB 35 [Main Title]
Log in to create clips, download free screeners and save clips/films in Collections.
Click here to find out more.
- Title: COMBAT BULLETIN NO CB 35 [Main Title]
- Film Number: ADM 20
- Other titles:
- Summary: I. "Pacific: Japs raid Saipan." (Reel 1) Saipan is a B-29 base in New Guinea. Night scenes of burning B-29s. Daylight firefighting, bulldozer in action. Second attack 12 hours later. Heavy smoke palls (this attack possibly November 1944). II. "Pacific: GIs get whole blood from home." Type 'O' blood is collected at San Francisco Red Cross Centre, placed in special transport refrigerator (keeps 75% of efficiency of blood for 21 days), sent at rate of 300 pints per day to Pacific. To Guam in 45 hours, to Leyte in under 4 days. Needed in serious cases, ease burden on soldier volunteers. III. "E.T.O. 'Black Widow' and 'JATO'." P.61 on ground, in air; jet assisted take offs by Dauntless, Tarpon and Wildcat. IV. "India/Burma: Activities in Burma." Heavy duty pontoon bridge prepared near Ledo, erected on Irrawaddy. (Reel 2) War Dogs, part of Morris Task Force, eat out of helmets. American mules near Bhamo. V. "Activities in China." Near Linchow, exhausted civilians and troops flee Japanese advance. VI. "Activities in E.T.O." 1st Army, near Düren, facing local counter-offensive; 3rd Army, Saar bridgehead, gun crew in action; 7th Army heads for Selestat; Strasbourg artillery fire across river, good streetfighting shots.
- Description:
- Alternative Title:
- Colour: B&W
- Digitised:
- Object_Number: ADM 20
- Sound: Sound
- Access Conditions:
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1944
- Production Country: United States of America
- Production Details: United States War Department (Production sponsor) Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps (Production company)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (regiment/service) United States Army Air Force, 20th Air Force (regiment/service) American Red Cross (regiment/service) United States Army & [Morris Task Force ?] (regiment/service) British Army, 1st Army (regiment/service) British Army, Army, 3 (regiment/service) British Army, Army, 7 (regiment/service)
- Keywords: aircraft, United States - combat: Boeing B-29 Superfortress & [wrecked] (object name) combat, Japanese - air raid [i] (object name) operations, United States (object name) medical, United States - routine: blood transfusion (object name) supplies, United States, movement - medical (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Douglas SBD Dauntless (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Northrop P.61 Black Widow (object name) aircraft, United States naval - combat: Grumman F-4 Wildcat (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Tarpon (object name) equipment, United States air - propulsion: JATO unit (object name) sciences, United States - technology: jet propulsion (object name) animals, mammals: dog (object name) animals, mammals: mule (object name) engineering, military, United States: bridge building (pontoon) (object name) refugees, Chinese - flight (object name) combat, British (object name) combat, Allied - artillery bombardment (object name) combat, Allied: streetfighting (object name) New Guinea & Saipan <US airbase> (geography) San Francisco Red Cross Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America (geography) Ledo, Assam, India (geography) Bhamo, Burma (geography) Irrawaddy (River), Burma (geography) China & Linchow area (geography) Germany & Duren, North Rhine-Westphalia (geography) Germany & Saar (River) (geography) Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France (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: 2 Footage: 1739 ft; Running time: 19 mins
- HD Media:
- Link to IWM Collections page:
- Related IWM Collections Objects: