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WWII - 1943, Bombing Low-Level; Australian Troops In New Guinea Jungle Fighting; North Africa

Reel Number: 250040-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1943

Country: Australia,England,Germany,New Guinea,Papua new Guinea,United Kingdom

Location: Milne Bay,New Guinea,North Africa,South Pacific

TC Begins: 06:00:01

TC Ends: 06:08:46

Duration: 00:08:45

Title. 06:00:17 Intertitle: Bombing Offensive. British bombers skim over the English Channel, CU pilot w/ oxygen mask ; seen very low over wet countryside, towns. CU pilot no mask. Skimming over apartments & climbing. Aerial of city. Still of smoke; moving pictures of smoke over city after bombing German installations. 06:02:20 Aircraft landing; pilots / crew talk. Wrecked bomber inspected after crash landing. Wing tip shot off. 06:02:46 Intertitle: New Guinea. Unloading ships onto beach. Australian troops advance thru jungle near Milne Bay; pull heavy artillery. Transport planes drop supplies; men eat rest. Thru jungle path; thru deep mud. Japanese landing barges on beach; partially demolished Japanese midget tanks. Village & carrying wounded. Jap equipment captured intact. More marching. 06:05:01 Intertitle: North Africa. Large hillside encampment; Arab chieftains swear allegiance to Free French forces w/ FFF officers at table listing, paying Arab subjects. Arabs selling water & ???. British artillery in valley fire on German desert positions. US tanks w/ flag, followed by infantry move up. 06:06:41 Free French & American officers review French Colonial troops. Arab sultan rides from desert fort; people bowing. High angle of parade filling street past lined sidewalks; MCU Allied officers on reviewing stand. Women watching tanks passing & planes flying overhead. The End. North Africa; WW2 Fighting; 1943; British Military Newsreel; South Pacific; Milne Bay, new Guinea; SoUth Pacific; North Africa;

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