Motion Picture MP2016-18
Administrative Information
News film compilation of World War II footage from c. 1944 (Castle Films # 150), depicting battles between the Allied forces and Axis forces in Italy and Russia and Ukraine.
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Shot List
Intertitles are as follows:
-Fight for Rome!
-Yanks of American 5th Army swarm ashore near Anzio! [22 January 1944]
-British invading forces!
-Nazi bombers menace Allied troops and terror-stricken villagers!
-Fires sweep Anzio!
-More men, weapons and supplies pour ashore!
-Swirling flood waters hamper Engineer Battalions!
-American “Bazookas” blast enemy pillboxes!
-Nazi prisoners!
-The Germans fortify a hilltop Monastery – the Allies send warning! [Monte Cassino Monastery]
-Cassino hills are hammered and blasted in Allies’ Fight for Rome! [15 February 1944]
-Russia's Smashing Offensive!
-The Red Army drives forward from Leningrad to the Ukraine!
-These Russians permit no escape!
-Battered and abandoned German mechanized equipment!
-Field Marshall (sic) [Semyon] Timoshenko commands the offensive!
-Hundreds of thousands of Nazis either perish or surrender!
-Retreating Nazis leave villages in flames!
-Russian peasants return to devastated towns!
-A liberated people scream with emotion!
-Hitler’s “supermen” march back under guard!
-Every Russian soldier is proclaimed a hero in Russia’s Smashing Offensive!
This News Parade newsreel was produced by Castle Films and edited by Eugene W. Castle.