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United News: The capture of Tarawa from Japan! ; United Nations leaders meet in Middle East! ; / Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau

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Format:
Government document
Video
Author/Creator:
United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office.
Contributor:
United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Series:
Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, 1942 - 1945
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United Nations.
United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945 : San Francisco, Calif.).
United Nations Conference on International Organization.
Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949.
Teheran Conference (1943 : Tehran, Iran).
Teheran Conference.
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003.
Chiang, May-ling Soong.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
Truman, Harry S.
Stettinius, Edward R., Jr. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949.
Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943.
Nuremberg (Germany).
New York (N.Y.).
Middle East.
Tarawa (Kiribati).
Aircraft carriers.
World War, 1939-1945--United States.
World War, 1939-1945.
aircraft carriers.
New York (State)--New York.
Kiribati--Tarawa.
Germany--Nuremberg.
Kiribati.
United States.
Genre:
Feature films
Actualities (Motion pictures)
Newsreels
Nonfiction films
Short films
Newsreels.
Short films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (9 minutes,31 seconds): sound, black and white
Place of Publication:
[Washington, D.C.] : National Archives and Records Administration, [1943]
Summary:
Part 1, the invasion fleet moves toward Tarawa. Marines land and fight after a naval bombardment. Shows the effect of the attack on Japanese emplacements. Part 2, President Roosevelt meets with Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo, and with Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Teheran. Shows Madame Chiang and Sara Churchill.
Notes:
Title from title screen (viewed May 9, 2006).
"Dramatic films of the bloodiest battle of the Pacific in which U.S. Marines win vital Jap base in 76 hours!"
OCLC:
68572436

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