Motion Picture MP2016-6
Administrative Information
News film compilation of World War II footage from c. 1942-1943 (Castle Films # 139), depicting battles of the Allies against Axis forces in Libya, Algeria, and Tunisia in North Africa; and Stalingrad in the Soviet Union.
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Shot List
Intertitles are as follows:
-Battle for Tunisia!
-Britain’s gallant 8th Army roars on from Tripolitania to pierce the Mareth Line!
-To drive [Erwin] Rommel and his army into the sea!
-General Bernard Montgomery, master of all he surveys!
-Nazi Gen. [Wilhelm Ritter] Von Thoma, surrenders with his battered troops!
-Captured German films show Rommel – before the coming Allied drive!
-To the north, convoys of fighting Yanks and supplies sail into an Algerian port -
-- Under a blanket of Nazi fire!
-American paratroopers in actual attack!
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower in supreme command!
-The battle is on! Yanks and Germans meet in full-scale combat!
-Troops of Rommel’s North Africa Corps surrender!
-Meanwhile, Allies and Axis planes meet in “dog-fights” to the finish!
-Yanks bomb olive groves shielding German tank, guns and men!
-Flying squadrons sweep down in hedge-hopping thrusts at Nazi battle wagons!
-They head for the sea to pierce the vitals of prowling enemy ships!
-Surrender at Stalingrad!
-Captured Nazi films show Hitler’s thrust at Stalingrad!
-The “invincible” army pounds at the city’s gates!
-Authentic Soviet Films of Nazi Defeat!
-The avenging Russians sweep forward in relentless counter-attack!
-The ruins of Stalingrad disgorge a beaten army!
-Prize Nazi prisoners! Lieut. Gen. Von Daniel (sic) [Alexander Edler Von Daniels], commanding the veteran 376th Division!
-Lieut. Gen. [Werner] Sanne – another of the 24 generals captured!
-Lieut. Gen. [Hans] Schlemmer with his entire staff of the 14th Tank Corps
-Lieut. Gen. [Moritz] Von Drebber
-The biggest catch of all! Field Marshall (sic) [Friedrich] Von Paulus!
-Beaten and subdued, Von Paulus is questioned by his Russian captor!
-The tattered remnants of a once proud legion that goose-stepped for Hitler!
-The free world salutes heroic Stalingrad!
This News Parade newsreel was produced by Castle Films and edited by Eugene W. Castle.