“News Parade of the Year 1942” is a black-and-white newsreel film showcasing current events from 1942 (Castle Films Production). Narrated by Robert Stevenson, segments include: YANKS FIGHTING AROUND GLOBE!, JAPS BOMB ALASKA!, US MARINES BATTLE JAPS IN PACIFIC!, BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC!, RUSSIA’S HEROIC STAND!, BRAZIL WARS ON AXIS!, CANADIANS RAID DIEPPE!, PRELUDE TO SECOND FRONT!, and MIDWAY BATTLE! with segments filmed by Commander John Ford.
American servicemen crowded on boat as it crosses Atlantic (0:27). American soldiers march in formation out of hangar (0:34). Servicemen trudge through mud in Ireland (0:40). American pilots (perhaps “Flying Tigers”) race towards squadron of Curtiss P-40 fighter planes ft. painted shark face, China (0:54). Curtiss P-40s fly in V-formation (1:03). General Claire Lee Chennault in cockpit, leads Flying Tigers (1:10). Close-up face General Chennault, Colonel Robert Lee Scott Jr. look up at sky, observe planes in flight (1:19). Servicemen carry supplies off ship docked at Indian port (1:26). Japanese bombardment Aleutian Islands (Alaska): men hose off destroyed warehouses at port (1:45). American WWII destroyer escorts transport and cargo ship (2:01). American troops in Higgins Boat (2:08). Supplies piled on beach, landing craft ships along shore (2:18). American Navy battleships open fire off Solomon Islands (2:29). Two shirtless men load missile into barrel of battleship gun, sky dotted with smoke and sparks (2:33). Guadalcanal Campaign: US Marines pile onto landing boat, run through water to get to beach (2:48). American troops walk through smoking ruins of (now) Henderson Field (3:00). Sign in Japanese leftover by enemy (3:18). Marines escort Japanese POWs (3:21). US Marines raise US flag on flagpole, salute the flag (3:24). Aerial view of US and Canadian Navy aviators and coastguard men bombing German U-Boats, perhaps No. 162 Squadron RCAF drops bombs (3:41) Water sprays into air as mortar explodes underwater (3:48). Aerial view of bombed tanker, smoke billows from upper deck (3:57). Black smoke engulfs upper deck of tanker, half of ship submerged under water (4:08). Conveys dot waters surface as seen from plane flying over Atlantic (4:13). Red Army runs through forest (4:20). Red Army soldiers roll field artillery weapon during attack by German Panzer Units (4:25). Red Army soldiers in trench fire large machine gun, dirt sprays after mortar explodes (4:34). Tanks charge across field (4:40). Red Army sharp shooter aims at Nazi soldier attempting to surrender (4:46). Nazi POWs march under watch of Red Army soldier (4:51). Moscow Conference: Churchill and Stalin sit side-by-side (5:00). Aerial view Rio de Janeiro (5:12). Official addresses crowd, Tiradentes Palace (5:17). Crowd runs through streets with peace signs raised, upside down life-size poster of Hitler (5:22). Canadian Dieppe Raid: Canadian soldiers stand in uniform on deck of ship, look out at coast (5:33). Camera view obscured by smoke and fog, British, American, Canadian infantry men in various landing crafts in English Channel (5:36). Canadians launch and fire mortars from deck of Navy ship (5:45). Soldiers run off landing crafts on shore of Dieppe (5:51). Infantrymen run along grass field, try to evade exploding mortars (6:03). Group of perhaps Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter fly overhead (6:06). Bomb slowly falls through sky towards German farmland below (6:07). Injured Canadian survivors of Dieppe Raid wearily board ship (6:30). Perhaps USAAF B-25B Mitchell flies close to water’s surface (6:50). Shadows of bombers fly across farmland (7:02). Bombers fly low over buildings of German town, bombs dropped on ports, railroads, and factories (7:07). US Navy Servicemen aiming and operating anti-aircraft guns aboard ships against Japanese planes (7:46). Quadruple-mount 1.1-inch (28 mm) anti-aircraft guns (8:07). Marine gunners operate anti-aircraft gun from land inside sandbag-lined pit (8:18). Japanese planes fall to land and sea (8:45). World War II Jeep drives across field of smoke, Red Cross men attend to wounded (9:01). Black smoke and burning oil tanks cloud skies over Midway (9:19). Marines raise American flag at top of flagpole, flag waves in sky amidst black smoke (9:38).
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