Video Parts (6 across 2 reels)
This clip is Reel 1, Part 1 of a 6-part film.
ARMY-NAVY SCREEN MAGAZINE, NO. 16 Reel 1 · Part 1
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Reel 1, Women Air Service Pilots (WASPs) train in Link trainers, attend classes, drill, fly, receive wings from Jacqueline Cochran, and report to the Air Transport Command. U.S. soldiers in India ride in horse-drawn carriages, shop, watch a snake charmer, and attend a horse race. Reel 2, naval guns bombard Salerno as an injured sailor is carried from his station. Troops land and advance past wreckage. A road bed is repaired; German installations are bombed. Shows street fighting in Naples, and Gens. Clark and Montgomery. Italian civilians cheer and receive food.
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