Universal Newsreel Volume 18, Release 413: Local Stories

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. JAPANESE PRISONERS ON OKINAWA!: Yank propaganda leaflets and superior gun powder induce a lone Jap to surrender. So well is he treated that scores of other Japs follow his example. They form a very strange picture in a prisoner stockade, eating G.I. chow and receiving expert medical attention. 2. LIQUID FIRE FOR THE JAPS: EDGEDWOOD ARSENAL, MD - U.S. Chemical Warfare Service demonstrates new portable flame throwers, flame-throwing tanks, and the latest type of incendiary bombs. 3. TIMBER WOLVES COME HOME: N.Y.C. - Gen. Terry Allen brings home units of his 104th "Timber Wolf" Division. Their excellent record in Europe has earned them furloughs, before they enter the Pacific war. 4. PREPARE FOR WINTER: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mr. C.J. Potter of the Solids Fuel Administration advises all Americans to lay in their winter fuel and insulate their homes—now. 5. THE TYROLEAN BEAUTIES: When G.I.'s on leave in the Tyrolean Alps go swimming they are entranced by the beauty of the scenery and of the native Austrian girls. 6. BALD HEAD CONVENTION: PLEASURE PIER, PORT ARTHUR, TX. - (Exclusive) The one eligibility requirement for entrance to the first annual convention of the United Bald Heads Convention is one bald pate. And what should happen to a hair tonic salesman, does happen. 7A/B. HELICOPTER FLEET: SHEPPARD FIELD, TX - Seasoned airplane pilots begins specialized helicopter training, for rescue and search detail. / NEW TIGER CAT: U.S. Navy reveals its answer to new high quality Jap fighter planes—it's the Gruman F-7-F "Tiger Cat," the most powerful fighter and fighter bomber in the fleet. (LOCAL – CANADA) DESTROYERS PREPARE FOR PACIFIC WAR. (LOCAL – CANADA) CWAC’S HEAD FOR EUROPE.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library