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WWII - 1942, US Navy Newsreel: Rangers Training; E-Award To Machine Tool Home Business; Corregidor Surrende Described R1 of 2

Reel Number: 250148-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1942,1940s

Country: Japan,Philippines,USA

Location: Camp Gordon Johnston,Connecticut,Cos Cob,Georgia,Pacific

TC Begins: 08:47:45

TC Ends: 08:57:58

Duration: 00:10:13

WWII - 1942, US Navy Newsreel: Rangers Training; E-Award To Machine Tool Home Business; Corregidor Surrende Described R1 of 2 Titles. 08:48:14 Title: Finishing School. Soldiers / Rangers practicing descending rope netting & other obstacle course training at Camp Gordon Johnston, Georgia. Practicing running out of plywood replica of landing craft; riding in false landing craft w/ 30mm machine guns firing on top of jeep. 08:49:05 Troops practice falling on barbed wire & others running across on their backs; crossing by ladder of rifles held by soldiers. 08:49:32 Men in landing craft putting bayonets on rifles; onto beach & practice advancing. Practicing crawling under machine gun fire. Other beach landing training w/ trucks, artillery & jeeps in large barges. GOOD. 08:51:55 Art Intertitle: Back Home, Cos Cob, Conn. Couple & two boys to garage, open doors & sweep floor & polish metal working machine tool machinery. Man w/ pipe at machine. High school student arriving to work after school; milk man as part time worker. Men working at machines; mcu of parts. Woman & boys packaging parts. 08:53:42 Woman washing boys ears & putting on ties. E for Excellence awarded by Navy official / Under Secretary of Navy Forrestal, outdoors SOF 08:54:20 Man, woman & boys hoist banner w US flag over garage. LS across rooftops. 08:54:41 Art title: I Was There. Two military women, Lt. Juanita Redmond & Capt. Ruth Parson (of nurse corps), walking along Potomac River. SOF discussing Corregidor & Manila. while sitting on park bench. 08:55:43 Manila at time of Japanese bombing, people running thru street; dive bombing. Fires & aftermath smoking damage w/ dead bodies. Japanese film of Corregidor gun emplacement & Malinta Tunnel entrances. Inside tunnels w/ lights shaking from bombing. Japanese climbing up embankment, using flame throwers; prisoners walking & posing w/ hands raised. Surrender at Corregidor, Mar42; 1940s; WW2 Homefront; Pacific; E-Award; Small Business; Angels of Bataan NOTE: Lt. Juanita Redmond published I Served On Bataan, JB Lippincott Co, 1943. NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate.

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