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WWII - 1944, Newsreel: Saipan; Presidential Campaign; Women at War; Cherbourg; Swimming, Jun44

Reel Number: 221747-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Canada,England,France,Italy,Japan,Northern Mariana Islands,United Kingdom,USA

Location: Anzio,California,Cherbourg Peninsula,Los Angeles,Pacific Islands,Saipan

TC Begins: 06:00:03

TC Ends: 06:08:00

Duration: 00:07:57

WWII - 1944, Newsreel: Saipan; Presidential Campaign; Women at War; Cherbourg; Swimming, Jun44 Title: Saipan Is Ours. Pan across fleet; shots from ships & battleships firing bombardment. Shore explosion, landing of marines & fighting on shore. 06:01:08 GIs inspecting Japanese installations, destroyed sugar mill, GIs w/ Jap flag, feeding PoWs, w/ natives. Casualties to ships & transferred to hospital ship. Marines’ burial at sea. 06:02:08 Title: Deweys Meet The Press. Republican presidential candidate Dewey before large press conference w/ photographers; Mrs Dewey before women press. 06:02:44 Title: Women At War. WACs in Italy leaving LST at Anzio; two trying to carry large duffel, soldier picks it up (sexist). Mail call & reading; Canadian “girls” receiving shots “flinch at nothing.” 06:03:30 Men carry stretcher into field hospital w/ doctor, nurse, surgery. CUs. Women marching past General Doolittle in England. 06:04:13 Victory On Cherbourg Peninsula. Tanks along dusty road; GIs firing mortars, explosions, artillery, tank hit. US glider wreckage & landing in field. Burning German tank. Old French women in wreckage; German Prisoners of War / POWs thru French street. Field of dead German corpses. Captured equipment. Nazi doodlebug tank; larger small tank w/ GIs. GIs passing out food to old French woman. 06:06:37 Title: Beautiful Teamwork. Twin sisters pose in bathing suits, Martha & Patsy Brown do synchronized swimming in Town House pool, Los Angeles. Underwater views. Join The Fighting Fifth end title. WW2; Presidential Elections; Sexism; Captured Weapons; NOTE: Any or all sold at per reel rate.

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