American newsreel (1943)

American air defenses repelling a night Luftwaffe air raid.

View of part of a burning city block.

American transport ships burning in the port.

Loading stretchers with the wounded into an ambulance.

Wreckage of a downed German plane.

Landing of a British transport plane in Sicily during fighting in 1943. Commander of the US 7th Army General Patton at the airfield.

General Montgomery gets off the plane, greets those meeting him.

Montgomery greets Patton.

Montgomery's face.

Patton and Montgomery at the airfield discussing the current operational situation.

Axis soldiers captured by the Americans sit on the ground.

Faces of captured Italian soldiers.

Columns of prisoners of war moving under escort.

Views of moving columns of prisoners of war (from above).

Prisoners of war loading property at a railway station.

German prisoners of war awaiting transfer to the rear.

A view of a temporary American prisoner of war camp.

German prisoners of war climb the gangplank aboard a transport ship.

Italian prisoners of war with their hands raised during a search.

Prisoners of war boarding a ship.

American servicemen being awarded orders and medals during military operations in the Pacific Ocean.

A view of a ceremony awarding American servicemen with Kuomintang orders.

A representative of the Kuomintang delivers a speech.

Faces of participants in a fishing competition in the United States.

Fishermen with nets in their hands enter a pond and catch fish.

Fishing with their hands.

Fishing in a pond with nets.

Weighing the caught fish on scales, two participants showing off their catch.

Cooking various dishes from the caught fish in the fresh air.

A demonstration of clothing models for a "Military Wedding", grooms in US Army uniforms from different times and eras.

A demonstration of wedding dresses and uniforms, accessories for dresses, faces of grooms and brides.

A couple dressed in 1940s fashion.

A bride and groom kiss.

Military personnel at the airfield of one of the new US air bases.

A troop parade on the territory of the military base.

An airplane performing aerobatics.

Airplanes flying over the mountains, a view of the nose of one of the airplanes.

A parachute landing.

A parachutist with an American flag.

Parachutists landing.

A dog landing on a parachute, the dog runs after an extinguished canopy.

A dog trainer with a landed dog.

Spectators in the stands during a demonstration air raid drill in Vancouver.

Military personnel and exercise leaders on the platform.

The mayor of Vancouver giving a speech before the start of the drill, spectators in the stands.

Firefighters with fire hoses on the bank of a river, people in the water near the bank.

Firefighters spraying water from fire hoses on people sitting in the water.

Jets of water in the sky.

American actress Rosalind Russell opens the door.

Russell enters the room, sits down on the sofa at the table.

Russell watches the newsreel of the First World War on the screen, talks about the new film "One Day Early" with her participation, fragments of the film.