Advance Base Pt. 1 of 3

Advance Base Pt. 1 of 3 Title: Restricted: To the men and women of America’s war plants who provide the mat...for victory Title & credits. Narrated by Quentin Reynolds. 07:01:32 Island in the Pacific being bombarded by US ships, smoke rising, dead Japanese , US using flame thrower. Soldier drops grenade into fox hole, explosion. Dead Japanese with no head, various shots other bodies of Japanese. Various shots destroyed Japanese defenses & military equipment, sunken ships on jungle islands. 07:02:58 USA: Advance Base Proving Grounds - Docks, US troops unloading supplies. Sign USN Testing Proving Test Davisville (Rhode Island). Adapting & testing machinery etc for war use. Hauling supplies across American beach as rehearsal for construction of an advanced base in the Pacific. Rhino barges tested w/ load of trucks & supplies. Temporary piers constructed. Pontoon boxes assembled as sea going drydocks. Bulldozer pushing down trees thru jungle. Construction battalions - the Seabees - constructing, welding. Storage dump. USN fleet anchored & at sea en route to Pacific. Signaler / signalman - signal flags lowered - ships firing large guns. 07.06.57 Landing on Pacific island under fire. US troops make slow progress up beachhead - injured man attended by medic in foxhole. Tank. Injured carried on stretcher, injured bandaged. Troops move inland thru jungle. Bulldozer starts leveling land just behind battle lines. Communication lines laid, radio operator. US LST supply ship bombed - smoke rising. Landing craft loading supplies from ships. Storage dumps on beach. Japanese plane towed off airstrip - clearing operations & laying new landing strip. Blowing up stumps; trucks dumping surface material for air strip. Heavy equipment. (GOOD Colour FOOTAGE) WWII Pacific War; WW2 Equipment testing;