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Edition of US-produced wartime newsreel, featuring the liberation of the island of Elba; scenes of Tito and his partisans in Yugoslavia; a visit to the Italian front by the United States Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall; the storming of the Pacific island of Saipan in the Marianas.
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Part 1: United News main titles. 'Allies liberate island of Elba'; map of Italy and Yugoslavia. Elba is highlighted. At sea; the isle under tracer fire. Landing force under fire. An American ship making smoke. Seen from a cliff top Allied troops come ashore from LCI(L)s (Landing Craft Infantry (Large)). French Senegalese and Moroccan Gourmier troops come ashore. A mule thrashes in shallow water. More men coming ashore and moving inland. Shell fire in the distance. Stretcher bearers bring a casualty to the beach. Group of German prisoners under guard. View of a seaside town with beached landing craft. A lorry passes through. View of 'Caffe Trattoria'. Another view of the town.
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Part 2: 'With Tito in Yugoslavia'; a Yugoslav soldier outside a camouflaged building. Tito and a party of officers emerges. Shots of a village and villagers. Group of Yugoslav fighters in the street, including armed women. Men leaving the village. A large mass of uniformed troops marching. Tito inspects the men (and women). Close-ups of Yugoslav men and women in uniform. Men march past; many are armed with British weapons. Tito.
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Part 3: U.S. military chief visits Italian front. General George Marshall, US Army Chief of Staff, passes camera. He decorates French general Alphone Juin. Meeting junior officers. Marshall and Lieutenant-General Mark Clark and others.
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Part 4: 'United Nations storm Saipan'; invasion force of the Fifth Fleet at sea. Map of the Pacific. Aircraft carriers and other warships at sea. Officers on the bridge of a warship. Naval bombardment; a (Brooklyn class?) cruiser fires. Other vessels firing and smoke rising from the island. Troops board a landing craft. Landing craft marked PA9-18 underway. Troops on the beach. A US Army M3 Stuart light tank climbs a hill. American troops observing artillery fire landing in the distance across open ground. Six-inch howitzer firing. 105mm howitzers and a tank firing. American infantrymen in the open. Stuart tank moving up. Firing on a distant treeline on a hillside. Wide shot; infantry and tanks advancing. Infantry moving up through long grass. Views of the terrain. A captured Japanese airfield with destroyed aircraft. United States Navy Avenger bombers on the airstrip. US flag flying. A casualty is carried on a stretcher along the beach. Medical post on the beach; a intravenous drip is used. Civilian women and children. American troops carrying children. The civilians are put aboard tracked amphibious carriers. Wide shot open ground with palm trees. A dump of water in jerry cans. Unloading supplies on the beach; landing craft PA48-14 in the background. End title.
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35mm