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United News, Release 87, 1944.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- United News ; 87
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 1940s.
- War and Violence.
- Depression & World War II (1929-1945).
- War.
- Italy.
- Local Subjects:
- 1940s.
- War and Violence.
- Depression & World War II (1929-1945).
- War.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (11 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : United Newsreel Corporation, 1944.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The Mars and its crew en route to Hawaii from California. 2. Test-firing of a 240mm howitzer. 3. Women manufacture gun cotton. 4. Canadian motorcycle dispatch riders take their final cross-country riding tests. 5. SPARS go ice-boating near Boston. 6. A thousand families near Naples leave the caves where they had lived for safety from bombs and receive food from the U.S. Army; ship-to-shore oil pipelines are laid; Allied troops attack Ortona, Italy.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016).
- OCLC:
- 859525062
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