Defeat and Victory

Defeat and Victory War Department Rolling titles re encourage workers to stay in war plants. 10:30:20 Title: Defeat. Air to air, 14th AAF Bombers dropping bombs, ship smoking & sinking. Map showing Kweilin, China. Pan Kweilin army base w/ mountain rock formations behind. City of Kweilin, street scenes. Chinese mother feeding child w/ chop sticks; child sleeping, people fleeing on trains, board boats, junks, at harbor, on foot, old lady left behind. Chinese men from Kweilin in uniform preparing to burn Kweilin, burning, destroyed trains. Aerials. C-47 Transport planes loaded & take off. Chinese planting 1000 lb bombs on air base, leaving in jeep, bomb explodes, aerial shot demolished air strip. Kweilin burning at night (1944). 10:35:20 Title: Victory. Animated map. Navy Task Force on way to Palau from air & water; large fleet of war ships, plane flies off carrier, planes in flight. Aerial view Japanese air field Palau, gun camera (GSAP) dive bombed, strafing ship, ship burning, explodes. Bombing on land & explosion. Landing craft to shore. 10:38:19 Alligators on way to land, amtracks, Japanese barges w/ men trying to swim to shore, dead Japanese in water picked up by US troops. US troops disembark on Palau, advance on beach & jungle. Flame thrower, talking on radio in foxhole, in trench, firing, CU throwing grenade, Molotov cocktails, tank. 10:41:33 GI throws canteen to wounded, other crawls. Carrying wounded on stretcher. Badly wounded soldier w/ bandaged face. Wounded carried out. 10:42:29 After battle unloading ammunition boxes & supplies on beach, carrying supplies on Island, troops w dogs up roads, climb hill. 10:44:01 Soldier firing into cave, then flame thrower, then explosive in hole. Advancing. Confrontation with lone Japanese soldier who throws stick grenade. Tank advancing, machine-gun, flame-thrower burning caves & ammunition exploding. 10:45:42 Burial service. Sounding trumpet, hoisting US flag. Admiral Halsey (?) & troops saluting. Kweilin burning at night. GI’s marching on island past camera. WWII Pacific War; Horrors of War; War Effort; Home Front Propaganda;