War Department Film
Communiqué 1
1. Aerial Techniques in the Southwest Pacific: 100 Liberator fortresses and medium Mitchells bomb Hansa Bay. Wewak, New Guinea and Rabaul, New Britain, demonstrating skip and para-frag bombing. US fighters destroy a Japanese fighter, reconnaissance plane and dive bomber in the air. 2. Black construction units rebuild a Munda airfield. 3. The Fifth Army in Italy: General Mark Clark's 5th Army hits the beach at Salerno, drives for Rome and captures Naples and Avellino. Aerial shots of the decimation of Benevento. The 5th Army crosses the Volturno River with pontoon bridges. General Mark Clark delivers a message to American war workers. 4. With the Australians in New Guinea: US cargo planes drop supplies to Australian forces in the jungles of New Guinea, where they fight the Japanese with the aid of the natives. USA, 1943, B&W, 29 minutes.

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War Department Film Communique (Mitchell Bombers bomb Hansa Bay)
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