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We Said We’d Come Back (1944) R1 of 2

Reel Number: 250051-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Guam,USA

Location: Guam

TC Begins: 04:27:22

TC Ends: 04:34:54

Duration: 00:07:32

Titles. R1 of 2 04:27:39 Montage of navy ships, planes, men working on board, fleet underway. 04:28:16 Adm. Ernest J. King at desk introduces film, explains uses of various ships. 04:28:54 Raising US flag over destroyed barracks on Guam, CU flag in wind. 04:29:14 Battleship firing salvo; MCU antii-aircraft firing, planes falling thru flak. Cruiser San Francisco w/ sailors on deck, aerial underway. Destroyers, firing torpedo. Submarine launched at Manitowoc, Wisconsin.View thru periscope, two torpedoes fired, ship hit. PT boats running at speed. 04:30:48 Aerial of fleet. Destroyer escort underway, makes depth charge attack. Explosions, concussions & water boiling. 04:31:28 Aerial over baby aircraft carrier (CVE) from converted merchant ships, Avenger takes off, fires rockets at desert targets. 04:32:04 Interior of military hospital w/ wounded in beds & wheelchairs. Nurses giving physical therapy. Medics in field giving first aid & plasma to wounded; evacuating on stretchers; operating room & equipment. 04:32:44 Doctor treating in hospital. Chaplaijn conducting shipboard services. 04:33:03 Aerial over large fleet underway; amphibious tanks ashore. LST unloading; assault boats & firing rockets, explosions on beach. Seabees construction battalion on beach; falling jungle tree; bulldozers pushing thru jungle; constructing airstrip, plane taking off. 04:34:32 Aerial of low island w/ military base & large fleet just offshore. View of fleet underway WWII Naval Ships; WW2 Navy Operations; Construction; 1944; Economics; Homefront appeal; Propaganda;

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