WWII - 1944 , US Military Newsreel: Italy Fighting; Italian POWs; Swearing In; Glider Crate Village; New Weapons

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944 , US Military Newsreel: Italy Fighting; Italian POWs; Swearing In; Glider Crate Village; New Weapons Titles. 05:10:24 Intertitle: Allied Guns Blast Nazis in Italy. Allied officers w/ binoculars looking from foxholes in fields, one on field telephone, camouflaged artillery barrels raised, CUs artillery men signaling, firing barrage of various guns including M1 or M2 Long Tom 155mm field guns & howitzers. 05:11:22 Intertitle: Italian Prisoners Volunteer For U.S. Engineers. Prisoners of War, Camp Sutton, North Carolina w/ US soldier at blackboard in field lecturing / teaching English to seated POWs captured in North Africa & Sicily. Saluting US officers (on graduation?). 05:11:46 LS training on jackhammers, saw & carpentry for Corps of Engineers construction work. 05:12:09 Drilling on large field wearing US uniforms w/ cap patches & sleeve badges: Italy. MCUs at attention. 05:12:34 Intertitle: New Citizens Pledge Loyalty To America. Swearing in ceremony in Central Park during I Am An American Day celebration. MCU of people at bandshell w/ flags of United Nations. Injured servicemen on crutches arriving; Mayor LaGuardia shaking hands w/ sailor. LS of crowds. SOF: LaGuardia leads new citizens who raise hands to take Oath / Pledge of Allegiance. CUs 05:13:53 Intertitle: U.S. Troops “At Home” In England. Plane pulling glider over tops of crates turned into housing by GIs / soldiers. POV from air. Soldier on top of crate marked Shanty Town overlooking other. 05:14:11 Glider unloaded from packing case. Soldiers carry in bed frame; interior of finished crate, listening to radio, window cut in w/ blind. Sign for barbershop in crate & cutting hair. 05:15:03 Intertitle: Army Tests New Weapons As Invasion Looms. Two four-motor bombers overhead dropping 100 lb bombs, large explosions. Three loads of bombs dropping close together w/ explosions across field. Aerial torpedo launched & exploded. Anti-personnel bombs exploding in air; fighter dive bombing w/ auxillary fuel tanks dropped as incendiary bombs, naplam-like. Mortars firing phosphorus shells seen from air & ground. 05:16:24 Backpack flamethrower against tank & target. 05:16:47 Intertitle: Gen. Eisenhower Inspects Air Bases In England. 9th USAAF base visited, walks w/ other officers saluting. Airmen watching from window; Ike inspects men laying bricks; visits w/ B-26 Marauder crewmen. Outside quonset hut; sitting in cockpit of fighter & fires wing gun. Watching from control tower as B-26 take off. formation overhaed. 05:17:59 Air to air over clouds, thru flak & bombs dropping, falling & exploding over roads, railyard. Returning & landing. RAF Lancaster bombers take off at dusk & night explosions at ammunition dump. 05:19:53 Logo The End. WW2; Fighting; Battles; Prisoners of War; Ethnic Immigrants; Troop Housing; Homes; Ordnance; NOTE: Good quality, but see 250159 06:05:16 - 06:13:29 for BETTER QUALITY OF MOST. VERY good bombing sequence both day & night. NOTE: Any or all sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk