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WWII - Japanese Newsreel re Aircraft Carrier

Reel Number: 221414-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Guam,Japan,Northern Mariana Islands

Location: Guam,Pacific,Saipan

TC Begins: 02:47:36

TC Ends: 02:56:25

Duration: 00:08:49

WWII - Japanese Newsreel re Aircraft Carrier View of wake of ship; LS of several aircraft carriers. Onboard & pushing planes on deck. Pilots briefed, CUs. Planes start engines, take off, flagman, in flight & view over coastal harbor. Bombs exploding near Guam US Navy base. Formation of planes, island in distance & ship below, burning. 02:49:56 Two planes low; ship burning & exploding in bow; sinking completely. Japanese flag. 02:50:20 Titles 02:51:10 Map w/ lines out from Japan in animation. Title. 02:51:31 Map of Guam (?) Island from air w/ coast cliff; roads, farms. POV past oil storage tanks & buildings w/ many oil barrels. Pan over island & buildings. Signs in Japanese & Japan flag flying. Various signs & remains of US base. Nurse pushing man. Hospital & Japanese doctors & nurses treating patients. School & Japanese teaching characters to children of Guam. Exercising. Women weeding or harvesting 02:54:14 Small Shinto shrine or temple. Sunset behind palms. 02:54:31 Title & map. 02:54:45 Aerial over US navy base & large airstrip. Ground shot & collapsed ?? Wrecked US airplanes. Sign to Guam, Midway, Manila, Honolulu, San Francisco. Signs in Japanese. Japanese troops receive gun instruction near shore position as officers watch. Trench near beach; CU Japanese at machine guns; in lookout tower w/ binoculars. WW2 PACIFIC; Saipan (?);

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