Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-2079

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00:01:28 0	"THE BATTLE FOR OKINAWA" VARIOUS SCENES OF ARMY AND MARINE SOLDIERS IN RAGING BATTLES WITH JAPANESE ON THE ISLAND OF OKINAWA. VARIOUS SCENES TANK EQUIPPED FLAME THROWERS IN ACTION, TROOPS ADVANCING OVER TOUGH TERRAIN.
00:01:35 6.33	MAP SHOWING ISLAND OF OKINAWA IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO JAPAN.
00:01:42 14.33	ELS U.S. WARSHIPS IN DISTANCE SEEN FIRING TOWARDS CAMERA, OVER AMERICAN LINES, INTO ENEMY LINES FAR INLAND. FIRE. WARSHIP SHELLS EXPLODING OM ENEMY LINES.
00:01:50 22.33	TWO FLAME THROWER EQUIPPED TANKS LOOP LONG STREAMS OF FIRE OVER HILLS INTO ENEMY UNDERGROUND POSITIONS. AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE TOWARDS GROUND SEARED BY FLAMES
00:02:17 48.33	FOUR GI MEDICS, UNDER FIRE, ARE SEEN PUTTING WOUNDED GI ON STRETCHER AND CARRYING UP HILL HIM TOWARDS CAMERA. CU MEDIC HOLDS HAND OF WOUNDED AS OTHERS TEND TO HIS WOUNDS. GIS IN F-G WATCH THEIR BUDDY BEING CARRIED OFF ON STRETCHER.
00:02:44 75.33	GIS TREK IN DEEP MUD AS WET RAINS COME. CU JEEP, STUCK IN DEEP MUD, TRIES TO BACK OUT. BULL DOZER PULLS TRUCK OUT OF DEEP MUD.
00:03:05 96.33	GI DUCKS AS JEEP MOUNTED ROCKET LAUNCHERS MAKE A REPEATED EERIE SOUND AS THEY FIRE THEIR MANY ROUNDS
00:03:23 114.33	GIS USE ROPE SCALING LADDERS TO CLIMB UP CLIFF.
00:03:36 127.33	GI LEANS OVER HILL, THROWS EXPLOSIVE CHARGE IN CAVE BELOW HIM THEN RUNS. HUGE EXPLOSION ENSUES.
00:03:42 133.33	ARTILLERY CREW FIRES. HUGE EXPLOSION FROM EXPLODING SHELL.
00:03:45 136.33	"BRITISH NAVY JOINS AMERICAN FLEET IN WAR ON JAPAN" VARIOUS SCENES OF FAMED BRITISH CARRIER "ILLUSTRIOUS", DECKS LADEN WITH FIGHTER PLANES, SENDING ITS PLANES AGAINST THE JAPANESE
00:03:56 148.33	HIGH ANGLE OF CARRIER TAKING ON SUPPLIES FROM DESTROYER ALONGSIDE, DESPITE ROUGH SEAS.
00:03:59 151.33	LONG LINE OF SAILORS HEAVE ON ROPE TO PULL SUPPLIES ABOARD. LIKE "TUG OF WAR".
00:04:15 166.33	CREWMEN ON CARRIER, BACK TO CAMERA, FIRE LINE ACROSS BOW OF DESTROYER TO SET UP A "BREACHES BUOY" FOR TRANSPORTING MEN FROM SHIP TO SHIP. MEN SEATED IN BUCKET BEING TRANSPORTED FROM SHIP TO SHIP IN ROUGH SEAS.
00:04:51 202.33	DAMAGED PLANE CRASHES ON DECK, BURST INTO FLAMES. FLAMES ARE EXTINGUISHED WITH FOAM.
00:05:02 213.33	"WELCOME HOME GENERAL CLARK". VARIOUS SCENES OF GENERAL MARK CLARK, COMMANDER OF ARMY IN ITALY, IS WELCOMED HOME BY THE PEOPLE OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
00:05:10 221.33	GENERAL CLARK IS WELCOMED BY MAYOR KELLY OF CHICAGO. BOTH SIT IN OPEN LIMO FOR MOTORCADE INTO CITY.
00:05:20 231.33	PAN FELLOW TOWNSMEN LINING THE STREETS OF CHICAGO SUBURBS, & APPLAUDING AS CLARK PASSES IN LIMO.
00:05:25 236.33	MOVIE CAMERAMAN, BACK TO CAMERA, STANDS ON TOP OF AUTO WITH HIS CAMERA AND TRIPOD AND FILMS MOTORCADE AS IT COMES TOWARDS HIM.
00:05:34 245.33	GROUP OF CHILDREN WITH PARENTS IN BKGD SMILE AND WAVE.
00:05:40 251.33	CLARK IS WELCOMED BY WIFE, THEY KISS.
00:05:44 255.33	"FOOD ADMINISTRATOR JONES APPEALS FOR YOUR AID TO FARMER".
00:05:54 265.33	JONES SPEAKS FROM HIS DESK IN WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICE. PLEADS FOR PEOPLE, "TO PITCH IN AND HELP THE FARMER HARVEST & GROW HIS CROP". AGRICULTURE; GOVERNMENT.
00:06:33 304.33	"MOTOR DAREDEVILS PUT ON THRILLING MERRY-GO-ROUND" VARIOUS SCENES OF DAREDEVIL STUNT RIDERS BOB THOMPSON & WIFE DOTTY RIDE MOTORCYCLES ALONG INSIDE WALLS OF TANK AT HIGH SPEEDS AS SPECTATORS LINING THE TOP WATCH THEM DEFYING GRAVITY. MOTORDROME AT PALISADES PARK, NEW JERSEY
00:07:06 337.33	CU LION IN CAGE BARES ITS FANGS, BEFORE IT IS LET OUT OF CAGE AND INTO TANK WITH DAREDEVIL ETHEL PERTEL (?).
00:07:14 345.33	"KING" THE LION, IS LED TO SMALL AUTO WHERE IT SITS IN PASSENGER SEAT AS PERTEL SITS IN DRIVERS SEAT. THEY RIDE AT FULL SPEED ALONG THE WALLS OF THE TANK, DEFYING GRAVITY. VARIOUS ABOVE SCENES OF ETHEL AND "KING" SPEEDING AROUND TANK AS SPECTATORS WATCH AT TOP. ANIMAL ANTICS; ODDITY; ENTERTAINMENT
00:07:40 371.33	"MERCY PLANES". TWO HOSPITAL "SHIPS" CHRISTENED BY MRS. TRUMAN. VARIOUS SCENES OF MRS. TRUMAN SMASHING A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAIGN AGAINST NOSE OF PLANES SEVERAL TIMES WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO BREAK IT. VARIOUS SCENES OF ARMY OFFICER "COMING TO THE RESCUE" ALSO FAILING TO BREAK THE BOTTLE DESPITE REPEATED EFFORTS. CROWD, MRS. TRUMAN LAUGHS AT HILARIOUS SCENE. COMEDY; AVIATION.
00:08:31 422.33	ARMY OFFICER GRABS BOTTLE IN BOTH HANDS, TAKES STANCE LIKE BASEBALL BATTER, THEN SWINGS WITH ALL HIS MIGHT, BOTTLE DOESN'T BREAK.
00:08:45 436.33	MRS. TRUMAN THEN TRIES TO BREAK BOTTLE ON THE OTHER PLANE. WHEN FIRST EFFORT FAILS, MAN HIDDEN UNDER PLATFORM BREAKS BOTTLE, IN MRS. TRUMAN'S HAND, WITH A HAMMER.
00:09:03 454.33	"NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA". VARIOUS SCENES OF ARMY TRANSPORT ARRIVING AT AUSTRALIAN CRAMMED WITH SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN READY TO FIGHT FOR MACARTHUR AND GUARD AUSTRALIA FROM INVASION..
00:09:29 480.33	PAN ARMY NURSES WAVE FROM RAILING OF SHIP.
00:09:38 489.33	ARMY TRUCKS BEING LOWERED FROM SHIP TO SHORE BY WINCH.
00:09:39 490.33	PAN FOUR ARMY NURSES EACH HOLDING LITTLE KOALA BEARS IN THEIR ARMS. NURSE HOLDS THREE KOALA BEARS IN HER ARMS, TURNS AND SHOWS THREE MORE CLINGING TO HER UNIFORM AT HER WAIST. ANIMAL ANTICS; CUTE
00:09:53 504.33	ARMY NURSES KNEELING ON GROUND, TRY TO HOLD KANGAROO IN PLACE. IT HOPS OFF WITH NURSE GOING ALONG HOLDING ON TO ITS TAIL. ODDITY
00:10:02 513.33	SEVERAL NURSES WALK DOWN STREET, TOWARDS CAMERA, ON THEIR WAY TO NEARBY HOSPITAL WHICH IS MADE UP OF A ROW OF HOUSES.
00:10:10 521.33	GI LAYS IN HOSPITAL COT READING BOOK. NURSE DRAWS BLOOD FROM GI PATIENT. OPERATING TEAM PERFORMING OPERATION IN OPERATING ROOM
00:10:10 521.33	AIR CHIEF MARSHALL SIR CHARLES BURNETT POSES WITH U.S. PILOT BEFORE BOARDING PLANE TO WASHINGTON.
00:10:39 551.33	AUSTRALIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNIT RUN TO MAN THEIR GUN. AUSTRALIAN ARMY TANK IN MANEUVERS, TRAIN FOR INVASION.
00:10:49 561.33	AMERICAN PILOTS, BACKS TO CAMERA, RUN TO MAN THEIR PLANES. CU PILOTS IN COCKPITS SMILE FOR CAMERA. SQUADRONS OF FIGHTER PLANES TAKING OFF. IN FLIGHT AND PEELING OFF.
00:11:24 595.33	"ALLIED TROOPS MOP UP JAPANESE" VARIOUS SCENES OF AMERICAN & AUSTRALIAN TROOPS MOPPING UP REMNANTS OF JAPANESE DEFENDERS ON NEW GUINEA. GRAPHIC SCENES OF JAPANESE DEAD SOLDIERS.
00:11:30 601.33	CU GI CLEANING HIS MACHINE GUN. ALLIED SOLDIERS PICKING UP ARTILLERY SHELLS, PACKED IN INDIVIDUAL CONTAINERS, CARRYING THEM THROUGH DENSE JUNGLE. CU JEEP TOWING CANNON RIDES THROUGH JUNGLE, TOWARDS CAMERA.
00:11:49 621.33	GIS, BACKS TO CAMERA, WALK CAREFULLY ACROSS STREAM ON CRUDE ROPE AND BAMBOO BRIDGE
00:11:54 626.33	GI, BACK TO CAMERA CROUCHES AS HE CAUTIOUSLY APPROACHES BUSHES AT EDGE OF WATER ALONG BEACH. GIS IN WAIST DEEP WATER AT EDGE OF JUNGLE STOP FOR FEAR OF SNIPERS. CU MACHINE GUN, IN F/G, OPENS UP ON QUESTIONABLE POSITION IN JUNGLE, ALONG BEACH, AS DO RIFLEMEN AND ARTILLERY.
00:12:29 660.33	MONTAGE DEAD JAPANESE SOLDIERS SEEN IN FOX HOLES, TRENCHES, AND ON JUNGLE GROUNDS.
00:12:47 678.33	GI EXAMINES CAPTURED JAPANESE WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT. INCLUDING AN INGENIOUS VERSION OF TRENCH MORTAR WHICH IS SMALL ENOUGH TO BE USED BY ONE MAN.
00:12:59 691.33	NATIVE TRIBESMEN CARRY WOUNDED GIS ON STRETCHERS THROUGH JUNGLES. WOUNDED GI USING STICKS AS CRUTCHES LIMP ALONG ROAD TO FIELD HOSPITAL
00:13:13 704.33	NATIVE MEN SELL GIS HOT CUPS OF TEA ON WAYSIDE STAND IN JUNGLE. GI SIPS TEA FROM METAL CUP.
00:13:24 715.33	DOCTORS PERFORMING OPERATION UNDER TENT.
00:13:45 736.33	VARIOUS SCENES OF DENSE JUNGLE, DESTROYED LANDING CRAFT ON BEACH, DISABLED TRUCK COVERED WITH PALM LEAVES, WAREHOUSE RIDDLED WITH BULLET HOLES, AS NARRATOR VOICE OVER TELLS OF BATTLE ON THIS ISLAND WHICH LED DIRECTLY TO BATTLE OF BISMARK SEA.
00:13:57 749.33	PAN HUNDREDS OF PALM TREES, STRIPPED OF THEIR LEAVES AND BRANCHES, BY BATTLE. VOICE OVER MAKES PROPAGANDA PITCH.
00:14:42 793.33	DIRIGIBLE HINDENBURG. ZEPPELIN IN FLIGHT.