Film Communique No 10 R2 of 2

Film Communique No 10 R2 of 2 Battle of Hill 700 - Japanese take Nanking - Pacific War Groups of Chinese refugees from Nanking arriving in Chungking. Fingerprints taken, money given. Large crowd in front of temple. 07:32:50 Nanking massacre carried out by Japanese Sixth Division; bodies of men women & children, building on fire, crowd running in street, refugees, body removed from rubble. Burning building collapsing. Chinese soldiers among ruins of city, CU firing machine gun & others. Chinese soldiers marching in ruins, captured. Japanese soldiers marching in ruins, taking prisoners. 07:34:05 Spring 1944, Japanese 6th Division in Bougainville captured Hill 700. Forest burning. US troops w/ tank, dragging ? out of water on landing on Empress Augusta Bay beachhead. Troops in columns, on road, in jungle, thru mud & swamps. Moving up carrying rocket tubes (?); moving up hill in trucks & vehicle. Crawling thru jungle. Stealth advance, fall to ground in ditch to avoid gunfire. Fighter firing rifle; US soldier throws grenade. Pushing forward behind tanks. On phone at back of vehicle (GOOD) Shooting guns, grenade. 07:36:47 Setting up loudspeaker, reading message to Japanese in microphone (no sound). Preparing new attack on Japanese camp w/ machine gun & other ammunition. Bazooka & flame-thrower. View from advancing tank, tanks in woods. CU of soldiers. Soldier carried away on stretcher, crawling & firing, boots thru mud. View from machine gun positions. Japanese troops’ corpses. US wounded on stretchers, tended, carried off on jeeps w/ racks w/ stretchers. Americans clean weapons. Impromptu church service conducted by Chaplain in jungle, read from bible, make sign of cross. (VERY GOOD JUNGLE BATTLE FOOTAGE WWII Pacific - Bougainville; Horrors of War; Atrocities; Violence; Hatred; Propaganda;