Reel Number: 221585-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s
Country: Burma,Japan,Northern Mariana Islands,Pacific Islands,Philippines
Location: Borneo,Hiroshima,IWO JIMA,Okinawa RYUKUS,Philippines,Saipan,Tokyo
TC Begins: 16:09:57
TC Ends: 16:18:43
Duration: 00:08:46
Army Air Forces - Pacific Pt. 1 of 2 16:10:16 SOF Gen. Hap Arnold presents film at desk & promotes war bonds. 16:11:40 Montage: planes over New Guinea from above dropping many parachutes. Plane guns firing. Coffin w/ US flag; bombs falling over China mountainous landscape & bombs exploding factories, warehouses; cemetery w/ crosses; bombs falling; Wake Island aerial; cemetery; Allied troops thru Burma forest; cemetery; exploding bombs on Pacific islands; cemetery. 16:13:07 Island beach base; guns pulled thru water, fuel drums & supplies; plane in snow, emptying load of weapons & ammunition in cold & ice; Asia & unloading fuel barrels; bombs in CBI. 16:14:36 Plane strafing, dive bombing, explosions. Strafing in Burma. GOOD. Narration re importance of air-ground support. 16:15:52 Gen. Stilwell watches Chinese casualty carried on stretchers. Emergency hospital w/ US Doctor Seagraves (CUs) & Burmese staff. Wounded smoking w/ bandage around head. 16:16:57 Convoy at sea; landing craft w/ supplies to shore & unloading equipment. Wounded on stretchers loaded into plane. Shots of Saipan damage, destroyed Japanese bases, damaged planes, buildings, rubble removed on conveyors. Bulldozers move debris to rebuild enemy bases. Metal landing strip, B-29 plane landing & POV from plane. Continued... GOOD. WWII Pacific History; Seabees; Cemeteries; Medics; Medical; WW2