WWII WAR FILM #9 BATTLE OF BISMARCK SEA, MOBILE ALABAMA, PRIVATE SNAFU "THE GOLDBRICK" 11424

In this information film for the Armed Services, viewers get a look at the 2.5-ton amphibious DUKW, Russian musicians performing for Soviet troops, a look back at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the population boom in Mobile, Alabama, and an episode of the propaganda cartoon Private Snafu. In the first segment, “F.O.B. America,” a 2.5-ton amphibious truck called a DUKW or “Duck” drives down the road (00:57). Men float an old army truck across a river using a large tarp. The modern “Duck” drives off a beach and out into the sea, where it cruises through the waves (02:00). The truck carries cargo back to the beach. A DUKW is lowered into the water from a ship (03:09). In the next update, viewers watch a pianist play for dozens of Soviet pilots at an airfield (03:40) before they remove the brush hiding their planes and take to the skies, as well as a woman singing for troops atop a Soviet tank. In the next segment, an Australian solider on leave in the U.S. visits the Empire State Building (07:12) where he meets two American GIs who also fought in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 2-4 March 1943. The three recall the battle: planes and bombers wait for the battle to begin. Lockheed P-38 Lightnings and North American B-25s take off; B-17 Flying Fortresses fly over the Pacific. Allied gunners strafe a Japanese ship; a bomber scores a direct hit on a Japanese transport ship. In Mobile, Alabama, the film shows some of the old houses on the old avenues of the city before cutting to the new neighborhoods: tents and make-shift houses provide shelter the families of U.S. servicemen. Mobile is also home to a large shipyard (14:13) where hundreds of men and women build ships for the war effort. A massive propeller is manufactured there (14:34); men and women weld metal for the ships. Small children play on a playground. A new ship is christened and sent to sea (15:13). The newsreel concludes with an episode of the animated cartoon Private Snafu (16:00). “The Goldbrick” shows a lazy guardian angel teaching American soldiers how to get out of drilling and hard work, only to have the consequences of “goldbricking” lead to their deaths once in combat in the South Pacific.

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