Motion Picture MP2016-16
Administrative Information
News film compilation of World War II footage from November-December, 1943 (Castle Films # 147), depicting battles between the American and Japanese forces in the South Pacific and Allied diplomatic conferences in Cairo and Tehran.
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Shot List
Intertitles are as follows:
-Allied Chiefs Meet! In Egypt and Persia!
-In Cairo, President [Franklin D. Roosevelt] and Prime Minister [Winston Churchill] meet with China’s Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek!
-Japan’s fate is planned!
-Teheran, Iran (Persia) Russia’s Premier Marshall [Joseph] Stalin arrives –
---to join Roosevelt and Churchill. Future attacks against Hitler are planned!
-President Roosevelt introduces Sarah Churchill Oliver to Stalin!
-Churchill presents “The Sword of Stalingrad” to Stalin!
-U.S. Marines Capture Tarawa!
-U.S. ships laden with Marines steam toward Gilbert Islands!
-Prayers before battle!
-An enemy U-boat is blasted!
-U.S. warships unleash a tremendous pre-landing bombardment!
-First wave of Marines starts for the hostile shore!
-1,500 tons of shell-fire rake the island!
-Marines press on – toward submerged coral reefs!
-Our Marines, forced to wade ashore, are perfect targets for enemy snipers!
-Jap pill-boxes are blasted!
-A flame-thrower goes into action!
-Reenforcements! (sic)
-On the 2nd day, the battle reaches its firey (sic) heights!
-U.S. Marines stalk a Jap concealed entrenchment!
-The Battle rages for 3 days and nights!
-Crossfire sweeps the island like a hurricane!
-Frightened Japs rush right into the gunfire of our leathernecks!
-Admiral [Harry W.] Hill and Major Gen. [Holland] Smith who led the attack!
-A Marine comforts the only surviving native!
-Tarawa is won – but the record is grim – 3,883 U.S. casualties!
-Lieut. Col. [Arnold] Johnston hails his battle-scarred Marines!
-The U.S. Marines again raise “Old Glory”!
-True to the traditions of their Corps and their Country!
This News Parade newsreel was produced by Castle Films and edited by Eugene W. Castle.