1944 Newsreel: New Films of U.S. Victory in The Marshall Islands
United Newsreel (U.S. Office of War Information) news from 1944.
New Films of U.S. Victory in the Marshall Islands [31 January-3 February 1944]
Japanese Pillboxes are Blasted
Japanese Prisoners of War
Admiral Nimitz Sees the American Flag Raised on the Marshall Islands
National Archives description: Kwajalein is bombarded from the air, from naval guns off shore, and from artillery batteries on a nearby atoll. U.S. troops land and advance inland under a constant artillery barrage. Flamethrowers and pack charges are used against pillboxes. Japanese prisoners are deloused and given medical treatment. Adm. Nimitz witnesses the raising of the American flag.”
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