Motion Picture MP2016-20
Administrative Information
Narrated news film compilation of World War II footage from 1942 (Castle Films # 135), depicting battles between the Allied forces and Axis forces in around the globe. See also MP2016-10 for silent version.
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Shot List
Intertitles are as follows:
-Yanks fighting around globe!
-Japs bomb Alaska!
-Re-enforcements and supplies reach U.S. Troops in Aleutians!
-U.S. Marines battle Japs in Pacific!
-Solomon Islands are targets for U.S. guns!
-Japs bomb Henderson Field Airport!
-U.S. Marines capture first Jap prisoners!
-Battle of the Atlantic!
-U.S. Flying Boats drop depth charges!
-Victims of Nazi U-Boat fire!
--but the convoys get through!
-Russia’s Heroic Stand!
-Marshall Timoshenko’s armies bravely defend Stalingrad!
-Historic first meeting between Churchill and Stalin at Moscow!
-Brazil Wars on Axis!
-Entire nation shout vengeance for ruthless Nazi attacks!
-Canadians raid Dieppe!
-Canadian Commandos carry costly offensive!
-Gallant fighters return from heroic mission!
-Prelude to Second Front!
-Filmed under fire! United Nations’ air-power rises!
-Occupied France and Reich are blasted!
-Dock installations, plants and war factories are demolished!
-MIDWAY BATTLE! Filmed by Commander John Ford
-American planes, warships and fighters strike decisively!
-The Battle of Midway rages!
-4 Jap carriers sunk
28 Jap battleships sunk or damaged
300 Jap planes destroyed!
-U.S. Marines Raise the Flag of Victory!
There are a couple of places where the soundtrack becomes faint in this film.
This News Parade newsreel was produced by Castle Films and edited by Eugene W. Castle.