UNITED STATES Part 2

Description

Summary: LS, British destroyer underway. Int, radio room aboard destroyer with radiomen at work. Ext, MS, Capitol in Washington, D.C. Int, LS, Congress in session. VS, destruction at Pearl Harbor. MS, Japanese diplomats Kurusu and Nomura leaving Capitol after talks with President Franklin D Roosevelt. Animated map showing Japanese conquest in Far East and American routes of lend-lease. CU, giant switch being thrown. Montage: War productions in American factories: machinists at work, planes, tanks, artillery, guns and shells on assembly line. Planes, tanks, trucks and jeeps at storage depots awaiting shipment overseas. CU, Pres Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in discussion. Animated map showing routes of American lend-lease. MS, lend-lease equipment being loaded aboard ships. Montage: troopship at sea, men coming down gangway, bulldozer clearing forests, farmers driving tractors, scenic shots of mountains. Montage: Invasion in Pacific. Rockets being fired, troops landing on beach running for cover, advancing through jungle, wading through swamps, using flame-throwers, treating wounded. Battle of Midway: Naval gun barrage. Men on aircraft carrier firing at attacking Japanese planes. Japanese plane is hit, bursts into flames and dives into sea. Formation of American bombers flies overhead. American and Japanese planes in dogfight. Int, CU, in plane as men fire machine guns at attacking Japanese fighters. Montage: Night scenes of naval barrage. Additional scenes of invasion as men land on beaches, advance through jungle, etc.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities