U.S. NEWS REVIEW, NO. 2 Reel 1 · Part 1

Description

Part 1 urges elimination of unnecessary travel. Part 2, a mobile laundry unit is used to wash army clothes in the New Guinea jungles. Part 3, military vehicles roll over the newly completed Alcan Highway. Shows a salmon catch, the Alaskan port of Ketchikan, troops boarding the transport St. Mihiel, a reindeer herd, open-seam coal mines, and forest areas. Part 4, U. S. troops capture a village near Kokodo, New Guinea. Supplies are dropped to them. Natives carry wounded from the jungle on stretchers. Part 5 shows Marines parading and an unidentified amphibious operation.

Collection

Records of the Office of War Information

Series

Propaganda, Information, and Documentary Motion Pictures