HEAVY RAINS SLOW ALLIED ADVANCE ON ITALIAN FRONT [ETC.]

National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38991, LI 208-UN-84 - HEAVY RAINS SLOW ALLIED ADVANCE ON ITALIAN FRONT [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, soldiers and equipment advance. Gen. Mark Clark and his troops eat doughnuts. An army chaplain holds mass and wounded soldiers are treated. Part 2, aerial and amphibious assaults are made against Makin Island, in the Gilbert group, and New Britain. Troop reinforcements land on Bougainville, in the Solomons. A carrier task force battles Japanese kamikaze planes off the Marshall Islands.