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War Department Report R2 of 4

Reel Number: 221208-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1943,1944,1945

Country: Germany,North Africa,Pacific

Location: North Africa,Pacific

TC Begins: 00:50:41

TC Ends: 01:01:04

Duration: 00:10:23

War Department Report R2 of 4 Nazi parade, huge crowds salute marching soldiers, CU of Nazi leader - Robert Lay marches thru the crowds, smile, wave; 19 European country representatives give nazi salute to leader on podium. 00:51:02 Food montage. Warehouse men carry boxes; sacks, pigs hang from ceiling, sausages stored, workers in the canteen, soldier on street eats sandwich. People queue for food, family prepares food in yard. 00:51:33 Industry shots: coal mining, steel, oil, rubber tire factory. High angle heavy industry, automatic machinery, CUs, steel foundry, rolling, tool makers, weapons production, shells, explosives, artillery shells from various angles (GOOD). Armament production. 00:53:02 New submarines launched, locomotive production & new train engines over camera; tanks on railroad cars. Tiger tank production, tank drives across field in dust; fighter plane production, planes on ground & in air fly-over. 00:54:23 Men work w/ huge fiery factory furnaces in Ruhr steel mills. Slave laborers work on concrete structures; building Siegfried Line. Large gun emplacement. Big pipe line laid, men paint the pipeline from inside & outside. Channel gun emplacements. 00:55:26 Huge artillery gun lifted in air; soldiers load new rocket gun & fire barrage. Night explosions. 00:56:11 Montage of US military & support. GI strokes rifle & smiles, others watch, troops attack in Pacific; out of landing craft & into jungle; high angle navy fleet, ships from various angles, big waves, freighters unloaded. Shots of various artillery, paratroops landing, tanks drive off ferry, short clips of weapons factory, cars transported by rail, various goods stockpiled & in storage. 00:57:53 Montage: North Africa & attack on Sicily. Eisenhower & ?? out of building. Supplies on railroad. Oil, DUKWs, & other needed supplies. Communications equipment; soldier w/ mine detector, new road construction, planes on the field, railroad, partly sunk ships in damaged port. 00:58:33 Montage equipment replacement: bomber plane crash lands; damaged trucks & equipment road side; tank sunk in Voltuno river next to pontoon bridge, trucks across; ships unload onto lorries, big trucks hoisted from ship; shots of stacks of supplied stored. 00:59:41 North African men carry big sacks, high angle army storage base, soldiers check various equipment; De Gaulle & Free French w/ General w/ marching French troops. Lend Lease & artillery production & storage. Moved thru large port, various shots of unloading, transporting, artillery, American war planes to Russian air force, white star painted red. US & Soviet pilots. 01:00:42 Montage of delivery: factory, people work w/ automatic machinery, railroad transportation; boxes unloaded from transport plane onto camels & wagons, high angle navy base. WWII Quartermasters; Supplies; Resupplying; Propaganda; WW2; 1940s;

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