TITLE: WAR DEPARTMENT REPORT: VOICE OVER, HOW STRONG IS THE ENEMY TODAY ?", HOW HARD IS THE JOB AHEAD?" PREPARED BY WAR DEPARTMENT, DEPT. OD STRATEGIC SERVICES.

TO 00:13:16.VARIOUS SHOTS MUSSOLINI, IN BLACK FEDORA AND COAT BEING PLACED ON SMALL PLANE AT RESCUE SITE AND FLOWN TO LARGER PLANE AND THEN DIRECTLY TO HITLER. PLANE LANDS,IS MET BY HITLER AND MUSSOLINI'S SON VITTORIO. AFTER BRIEF MEETING WITH HITLER, EL DUCE IS FLOWN TO HIDING PLACE.

TO 00 18 23 VARIOUS SHOTS JAPANESE FORCES ATTACKING KOREA, MANCHURIA,CHINA. ACTION SHOTS JAPANESE ON THE MARCH THROUGH THESE COUNTRIES. TYHEN THEY STRUCK AT US.

MAP OF WORLD SHOWS JAPAN SHOWS HOW JAPAN EXTENDED ITS EMPIRE THROUGHOUT THE FAR EAST. ACTION SHOTS OF BATTLE IN BURMA, JAVA, INDO-CHINA AND NEWLY CONQUERED OTHER ZONES WHICH ARE INCREDIBLY RICH IN RESOURCES AND SLAVE LABOR.

"JAPAN'S FOOD SUPPLY IS AMPLE". VARIOUS SHOTS JAPANESE WORKERS UNLOADING FOOD SUPPLIES, MEN, WOMEN WORKERS IN RICE FIELDS AND OTHER CROPS. ARMED JAPANESE SOLDIER WATCHES SLAVE LABORERS WORKING THE FIELDS IN CONQUERED LANDS.

GOOD SHOT JAPANESE DIVISION SOLDIERS MARCHING TOWARDS CAMERA. SHOTS OF DEFENSE PLANT PRODUCING WAR MATERIALS/. "NOW THE JAPANESE DOMINATE A SUBJECT POPULATION OF 385 MILLION. VARIOUS SHOTS WORKERS BUILDING ROADS AND INSIDE WAR PLANTS. RIVITERS, WELDERS, ETC. AT WORK.

MAP OF JAPAN AND PACIFIC SHOWS WEB OF POWERFUL INTERLOCKING BASES AND MAJOR STRONGHOLDS. EXTENDING OUT FROM JAPAN AND MOSE OF PACIFIC OCEAN.

TO 00:26:00 GERMANY - SHOTS DEAD, SURRENDERING GERMAN SOLDIERS EXITING BUNKERS,BUILDINGS. LONG LINES OF GERMAN POW'S. VOICE OVER "THE DESTRUCTION OF GERMANY IS FURTHER ALONG ....." .

CU RIFLES ALL LINED UP IN RACK, GERMAN SOLDIERS GRABBING THEM AND LINING UP. VARIOUS SHOTS DIVISIONS TROOPS MARCHING, LINED UP.VOICE OVR, "GERMANY HAS 3 TIMES THE COMBAT DIVISIONS FROM BEGINNING OF THE WAR". CHART SHOWS DESPITE LOSES IN RUSSIA, TUNISIA AND SICILY, IT HAS REFORMED AND RE-CREATED 60 NEW DIVISIONS".

THOUSANDS OF WAR GERMAN WORKERS MARCHING TO WORK. "VOICE OVER, "THIS EQUIPMENT WAS PRODUCED BY INCREASING WAR WORKERS
50%". "YOU HAV TO WORK, LIKE IT OR NOT". ABOVE VIEW HUNDREDS WORKERS SHOVELING DIRT IN FIELD.

VARIOUS SHOTS DOWN-TRODDEN PEOPLE, CHILDREN NOT SO LUCKY. "THE PEOPLE THAT ARE STARVING IN EUROPE ARE THOSE THAT CAN'T OR WON'T WORK".

VARIOUS SHOTS STOCKPILES ARTILLERY SHELLS, BOMBS. WORKERS IN PLANTS PRODUCING SAME. STOCK PILES ARTILLERY GUNS LARGE AND SMALL, TANKS. GOOD SHOT SUBMARINE BEING LAUNCHED SIDEWAYS, AND CONVENTIONALLY.LOCOMOTIIVES MASS PRODUCTION.

VARIOUS SHOTS WORKERS WORKING IN STEEL MILL. BLAST FURNACE, MOLTEN STEEL BRING POUNDED INTO RODS. SLAVE LABORERS WORKING ON GIANT CONCRETE STRUCTURES, FOR GUN EMPLACEMENTS. VOICE OVER, "MASTER OF THE BLITZKRIEG, WORRIED OF THE COMING ALLIED BLITZ".

TO 00 43 30 WAR DEPART REPORT TELL OF ENORMOUS LOGISTICAL PROBLEMS AMERICA HAS TO OVERCOME WHEN SUPPLYING OUR, AND OUR ALLIED TROOP WITH WAR MATERIALS, INCLUDING STORAGE, SHIPMENT OF HUGE QUANTITIES OF SUPPLIES AND FOOD, NECESSARY TO SUSTAIN MODERN ARMIES.

VARIOUS SHOTS LOCOMOTIVES, TELEGRAPH SIGNAL KEYS, BOMBERS, SHOES AND OTHER ITEMS WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THE CARGOES. OVER 700,000 ITEMS.MANY SHOWN..

VARIOUS SHOTS DAMAGED SHIPS IN HARBOR DESTROYED BY ENEMY BOMBERS, LS PLANE MAKING CRASH LANDING, DESTROYED VEHICLES IN VARIOUS WAR THEATERS, "ALL MUST BE REPLACED". SGT.INSPECTS GI RIFLES. "6 OUT OF 10 RIFLES HAVE TO BE REPLACED EVERY YEAR". 8 OUT OF10 MACHINE GUNS". SHOTS GIS FIRING MACHINE GUNS.

PAN LONG LINE OF TRUCK TIRES DELIVERED TO FRENCH ARMY. ENOUGH TO EQUIP 11 DIVISIONS. FRENCH GENERAL INSPECTS TROOPS AS THEY MARCH.

VARIOUS SHOTS AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANES BEING CHANGED FROM AMERICAN STAR TO RUSSIAN RED STAR INSIGNIAS. "6500 AMERICAN PLANES HAVE JOINED THE RUSSIAN AIR FORCE. VARIOUS SHOTS WAR PLANTS IN FULL PRODUCTION.

NAZI U-BOAT COMMANDER PEERS THROUGH PERISCOPE. UNDERWATER SHOT TORPEDO BEING FIRED. LS MERCHANT SHIP BEING HIT BY EXPLODING TORPEDO. VARIOUS SHOTS DEPT CHARGES BEING FIRED BY U. S. WARSHIPS..

GIS LOADING HEAVY EQUIPMENT ONTO CARGO PLANES. IN PLACE OF THESE SUPPLY DIFFICULTIES, THE ARMY OFTEN TURNS TO ITS AIR ARM". "BIG OFFENSES CANNOT BE SUPPLIED BY AIR SUPPLY ALONE"

ANIMATED DRAWINGS SHOW THE ADVANTAGES OF SHIPPING SUPPLIES FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO AUSTRALIA BY SHIP, AS OPPOSED BY CARGO PLANE. THE SAVINGS IN FUEL ALONE IS TREMENDOUS.

TO 00:39:05 VARIOUS SHOTS STRATEGIC AIR FORCE BOMBERS DROPPING BOMBS OVER ENEMY TARGETS. "STRATEGIC BOMBING IS AIMED AT THE HEART OF THE ENEMY, LAYING WASTE HIS FACTORIES ATTACKING HIS MORALE".

HUGE PILES OF SMASHED AMERICAN BOMBERS IN GRAVEYARD ON OUTSKIRTS OF BERLIN. GERMAN WORKERS TRY TO SALVAGE PARTS. VOICE OVER, "WE MUST REPLACE THIS EQUIPMENT". GRAPHIC VIEWS DEAD FLYERS BEING REMOVED FROM PLANES.. "THESE MEN CAN NEVER BE REPLACED".

FIGHTER PLANE LANDING ON BASE IN ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, SENDING UP A SPRAY OF WATER ON THE FLOODED RUNWAY. "THE NATURE OF THE TERRAIN, SEVERELY LIMITS THE SIZE AND NUMBER OF OUR AIRCRAFT .......". "STRATEGIC BOMBING OF JAPAN FROM HERE IS NOT FEASIBLE".

VARIOUS WING CAMERA SHOTS FIGHTER PLANES STRAFING ENEMY AIRFIELD, DESTROYING ENEMY PLANES ON GROUND. PAN HEAVY BOMBERS ATTHE NEW BASES. "THEY ARE NOT BASES FOR STRATEGIC BOMBING AGAINST JAPAN, BASES NEAREST JAPAN ARE IN CHINA"

VOICE OVER TELLS OF DIFFICULTY OF MOVING WAR MATERIALS TO CHINA. "AFTER TRAVELING 13,000 MILES TO CALCUTTA, THEN OVERLAND TO EASTERN INDIA THROUGH 500 MILES OF PRIMITIVE COUNTRY, NO MODERN ROADS. AND A COUNTRY SCOURGED BY MALARIA". SHOTS OF NATIVES ON ELEPHANTS MOVING GOOD THROUGH JUNGLES.

MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE BOMBARDMENTS BY ARTILLERY AND ROCKETS. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ATTACKING UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE. MAP OF USSR, MANCHURIA AND JAPAN. "VOICE ONE, "THERE IS NO ONE EASY SOLUTION TO OUR ATTACK AGAINST JAPAN". MORE REASONS SHOWN AND EXPLAINED.

HUGE EXPLOSION. VARIOUS SHOTS ENEMY PLANES ATTACKING CONVOY. LS HUGE EXPLOSION ON LIBERTY SHIP ROBERT ROE, WHICH WAS LOADED WITH MUNITIONS, HIT BY ENEMY BOMBS. MORE SHIPS AFTER BEING HIT BY ENEMY FIRE. HUGE PILES OF DESTROYED MATERIALS. "THESE ARE THE EXTRA COST OF AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULTS".

VARIOUS HOTS MEDICS CARRYING WOUNDED AND DEAD ALLIED SOLDIERS ON STRETCHERS AS VOICE OVER PATTERSON TELLS OF THE NUMBERS OF CASUALTIES SUFFERED BY ALLIES. MAP OF EUROPE AS PATTERSON TELLS OF THE DIFFICULT TASK AHAED.

GRAPHIC SHOTS JAPANESE SOLDIERS SHOOTING TWO CHINESE IN HEAD AS THEY KNEEL, TIED BEHIND THEIR BACKS. GROUP RUSSIAN CIVILIANS HANGING FROM POLE. OTHER GRAPHIC SCENES.
PATTERSON, "THESE ARE NOT ACTS OF WAR, THEY ARE CRIMES AGAINST DEFENSELESS PEOPLE .....". MORE GRAPHIC SCENES.

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