1944 UNITED NEWS NEWSREEL WWII BOMBING OF TOKYO, JAPAN LIBERATION OF METZ, FRANCE XD31221

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website United Newsreel Corporation was formed during WWII by the Office of War Information to boost home front morale and essentially serve as a propaganda outlet for the U.S. government. This particular example shows events in 1944 on both the European and Pacific fronts, including the bombing of Tokyo, distributing goods in the Philippines, and the liberation of Metz, Strasbourg, and Belfort in France. The film begins with the United News intro montage – soldiers marching, closeup of a tank, an airplane taking off, a ship in choppy water. 0:36 Text “B-29s Over Tokyo.” Bombs are wheeled up to a B-29 Superfortress on Saipan Island. A soldier writes “only the beginning” on a bomb. Crew of the XXI Bomber Command are briefed. 1:11 General Emmett E. “Rosie” O’Donnell, Jr. checks final details with General Haywood Shepherd Hansell, Jr., Commander of the Saipan Base Superfortr