Allies Fight Fierce Nazi Counter Blow; Rocket Firing Planes; Merchant Marine; Christmas Greetings

Allies Fight Fierce Nazi Counter Blow; Rocket Firing Planes; Merchant Marine; Christmas Greetings Tilt down newspaper rack w/ German newspapers; CU hands & POV reading. Germans closing gates across Opera House; Theater; Movie House. Women walk past; signing up for work. CU forms. Women working around table, filing, measuring. Street & men moving cartons. Street cars & trucks moving w/ electric trolley due to lack of gas. Tanks & other vehicles to front. Men wheel anti-aircraft gun. Watching robot bomb / buzz bomb (GOOD). Tank burning. Artillery firing, machine guns firing. German footage of Allied planes. 09:20:03 Allied artillery firing. Good explosions & guns. Moving wounded, tended. CU German POWs (young). German captured officers & prisoners marched for exchange. Happy. German officers & Red Cross representative Andrew Hodges. Smiling. 09:21:24 Title: Rocket Firing Planes Dover Army Airfield P-38 w/ rockets firing on Sherman tank. View from ground firing rockets; explosions. P-47 also w/ same rockets fires seen in slow motion & explosions. CU of tank w/ holes. 09:22:22 Title: Keep ‘Em Sailing American Merchant Service calls for volunteers to man ships. Calisthenics, men in rigging on tall sailing ship (GOOD); tanks & supplies; Merchant Marine sailors boarding ship. Aerial over convoy. 09:23:16 Title: Children of Envoys Greet U.S. Stand in costumes of their various countries standing on stage in front of flags. CUs as introduced. Boy from Cuba speaks (SOF) in Spanish & repeats in English. Brother & sister from Belgium speak in English give Christmas / New Year’s greeting in unison. WWII German Home Front; Fighting; Battles; Shortages; Petroleum;