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WWII - 1945, Pacific: Kamikaze Attack; Japanese Rocket Disassembled; Philippine Landing

Reel Number: H1187-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Japan,Philippines,USA

Location: Luzon,Okinawa,Pacific,Philippine islands

TC Begins: 03:36:12

TC Ends: 03:43:50

Duration: 00:07:38

Title. 03:36:19 Kamikaze plane hits destroyer USS Braine. Burning ship from others; another ship alongside to fight fire. CUs & MCUs. Ship underway on horizon. GOOD. 03:37:17 Title: Testing Japanese Rocket On Okinawa. 03:37:22 MCU & CU 12 cm. incendiary rocket is disassembled w/ narrator explaining features & explosives w/ picric acid pellets as detonator . 03:38:54 Smokeless powder burned on ground. CU igniting pellets w/ knife. 03:39:25 Several rockets test fired on beach using blasting cap to set off. 03:40:12 Title: 11th Airborne Cuts Jap Escape Route. 03:40:19 Dawn w/ C-47s taking off w/ 11th AB Division, paratroops descending near Aparri on Luzon, Philippine Islands. Parachutes descending. Troops on ground thru grass. 03:41:24 CG-4 / CG4 Gliders towed overhead & land; troops assemble & carry off howitzer parts in packs. 03:42:02 General Joseph Swing looks at map, leaves on jeep. Troops moving up roadway. 03:42:24 Title: PT Boats Fire Jap Oil. 03:42:31 PT boats patrol & strafe shores of Miri, Borneo; large oil fires on shore. The End. WW2 Invasions; Weapons; Naval Attacks; Navy Attacked; 1945; NOTE: Aparri Landing said to be first use of gliders in Pacific.

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