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Edition of US-produced wartime newsreel, featuring a parade in honour of Admiral Cunningham; Cordell Hull's stop-over in Cairo; a Soviet Navy flying boat in action; the work of the Canadian fishing fleet, and fighting on the Italian front.
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Part 1: United News main titles. 'News from North Africa'. Eisenhower takes the salute at a parade in honour of the departing Admiral Andrew Cunningham.
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Part 2: 'Cairo, Egypt'. Cordell Hull, US Secretary of State, steps down from a large, four-engined transport aircraft during a stop-over on his journey to Moscow.
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Part 3: 'Soviet torpedo planes on convoy patrol'. Aerial footage of a Soviet Beriev (MBR-7?) flying boat, with single pusher engine. A parachute-retarded bomb is dropped. A motor launch at speed and dropping depth charges. Sailors running to man anti-aircraft guns against a German air attack (apparently launched by a Ju-52 transport and a Ju-87 Stuka). On land torpedos are wheeled past camera on trolleys. A Soviet torpedo bomber, probably an Ilyushin Il-4. Aerial footage. A torpedo is dropped, and a stationary merchant ship is hit.
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Part 4: 'Canadian fishing fleet brings in record catch'. At Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, beached small wooden fishing boats. Fisherman with his net. Setting hooks. The boats at work. Hauling aboard large cod. Fishing boat against a chalk headland. Two boys (?) carry a large cod between them and one moves its mouth in a comical way. A man smiles. Scene on the beach.
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Part 5: 'Allied 5th Army hurls back Nazis on Italian front'. American lorries driving through Naples. A number of ornate carriages (hearses?) pass the lorries. Mark Clark inspects troops (of 82nd Airborne Division?). Aerial footage showing bomb craters and a destroyed railway bridge over the Calore river. A bombed power substation at Benevento. Other damaged buildings. Bombed railway rolling stock. Ground level view of a bombed marshalling yard. Scenes of bomb damage. Civilian women and children pass carrying sacks on their heads. A jeep passes bombed buildings. German prisoners. A wounded man on a stretcher is tended to. Prisoners marched away. A lorry fordeds a stream. Other vehicles struggle against muddy conditions north of Caserto. A unit of mounted troops is passed by motor transport. American troops march over open ground near the Volturno river. Views from a hillside showing shelling of distant targets. American field artillery in action. A lorry and a tank cross a pontoon bridge over the Volturno. End title.
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35mm