WWII - 1944, Newsreel, USA Military: Chiang Kai Shek; Burma; USS Ticonderoga Launch; FDR Destroyer Escort Gift to France; Marshall Islands Invasion

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, Newsreel, USA Military: Chiang Kai Shek; Burma; USS Ticonderoga Launch; FDR Destroyer Escort Gift to France; Marshall Islands Invasion 06:39:59 Intertitle: War News From China’s Armies In Southeast Asia. Chiang Kai Shek & wife w/ Lord Mountbatten; watching w/ binoculars, boarding US jeep. Chinese troops run to assemble, LS Chiang speaking (MOS) & gesturing. 06:40:53 US C-47 transport dropping supplies to Chinese soldiers in north Burma jungle by parachute. Soldiers w/ pack mules carry camouflaged equipment; fighting w/ small artillery & rifles. CU firign. 06:41:49 Gen. Stilwell giving medals to Chinese, handshake. 06:41:58 Intertitle: New Ships Bring U.S. Navy To Twice Pre-War Strength. 07Feb44 Bow of aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) & champagne bottle breaking, launching down ways as people wave. 06:42:43 Intertitle: America Gives New Warship To People Of France. 12Feb44 President Roosevelt arrives in open car alongside ship w/ French Vice-Admiral Fenard to present destroyer escort; reads from car SOF: “Yes, the Nazis on the Italian front know only too well that France is not out of this war, & the time will soon come when the Nazis in France will learn from millions of brave Frenchmen, now underground, that the people in France also are not at all out of this war. Good luck Senegalese & good hunting. 06:43:38 Intertitle: U.S. Invasion Of Japanese Marshall Islands. Pacific Map w/ Marshall Islands & location from various islands. LS troop transports in convoy, deck w/ LVT personnel carriers. Map CU w/ Kwajalein & lagoon, Roy & Namur. Aerial bombers; soldiers down netting on ship into landing craft & moving away; view from landing craft w/ troops, explosions, smoke, planes bombing. Heavily destroyed beach & troops ashore thru water, move up beach, firing from bomb crater. Mortars fired & airstrip w/ destroyed planes captured. Framework of hanger; soldiers inspect wrecked aircraft & Japanese headquarters. Dead Japs & destroyed reinforced pillboxes. 06:48:19 Trucks, soldiers & prisoners on beach. 06:48:28 The End w/ logo. WW2 Allies; Military Propaganda; Ship Launching; 1940s; Military Gifts; Pacific Landing; Island Beach; Naval Battle; NOTE: Sell at per reel rate. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk