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U.S.TROOPS CONSOLIDATE PACIFIC ISLANDS [ETC.]

Year Published: 1943

Creator: Department of War

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39023, LI 208-UN-116 - U.S.TROOPS CONSOLIDATE PACIFIC ISLANDS [ETC.] - Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, artillery units on Saipan bombard Japanese positions on Tinian. Gen. Holland Smith inspects positions on Guam as Marines advance from pillbox to pillbox. Part 2, Gen. Devers welcomes Brazilian troops debarking in Naples. Part 3, President Roosevelt, Gen. MacArthur, Adm. Nimitz, and Adm. Leahy converse on a cruiser anchored in Pearl Harbor. The President reviews the 7th Division and witnesses a demonstration of small arms firing. F.D.R. addresses navy yard workers at Bremerton, Washington.

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