WWII Newsreels “Navy In The Air” 1943
Naval Photographic Center film #2689 listed as “Navy In The Air” MN-3693 02/08/1950 ” 1) GV Paratroop soldiers in preparation for raid on New Guinea. 2) LS Planes taking off; loaded with paratroop soldiers, paratroopers drop from planes. 3) AV Paratroopers dropping from plane. 4) AV Planes dropping paratroopers. 5) GV American air power bombing Japanese forces in South Pacific; strafing land installations and sea. P-38 in action. SV 6) AV B-25s. 7) AV Bombs dropping and striking small island. 8) AV Flares dropping. 9) AV B-25s low altitude strafing & bombing run, bursts & water spouts. 10) LS Planes hedge-hopping bombs. 11) GV American wounded in the front lines being cared for. (This is a drive for buying War Bonds). 12) GV Allied air war blasts France. General views of air bombing of a Nazi base in France. 13) AV Aerial attack on Marshall Islands. (PB4Y’s) 14) AV Attack on Japanese ship, bomb water bursts and hits. 15) GV Land battles through the jungles shooting out Japanese snipers. SV 16) GV Battle at Kula Gulf, New Georgia (Night battle). 17) GV Rescue from sunken ship, USS HELENA. CL-50″ National Archives Identifier: 76515
