GOLF FOR VETERANS Golf stars put on exhibition for wounded veterans at the Naval Air Stadium. After a Byron Nelson lesson, one vet flubs his shots almost as badly as Joe Kirkwood, the fancy shot maker.
THE INVASION OF OKINAWA Conferences at Guam ended, Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Nimitz sends an armada of 1,400 vessels to Okinawa in the Ryukus. En route, the men of the new U.S. 10th Army stage their own deck entertainment, and secure their issue of invasion money.rnLand sighted, the big guns of the fleet bark into action, and tons of rockets are sped shoreward. Landing craft race in, and unopposed landings are made. Inland, Japanese dugouts and pill boxes are destroyed with grenades. Past broken forts, natives climb down from the hills, the Stars and Stripes are run up, and the Yanks prepare for their campaign on Okinawa--360 miles from Japan itself.
RETURN TO MANDALAY British and Indian combat troops capture Mandalay ending three years of Japanese occupation. Burmese campaign continues to gain momentum as the mechanized might of the British splits the Japanese hold of Burma into two segments.
BATTLE ROCKETS U.S. uses mobile rocket projectors to hurl banks of rockets into German towns. They are fired by remote control so that the crews may escape the terrific discharge fires.
FIGHTS ON PIER 88 When some sluggers from Pier 92 Receiving Station meet U.S. Navy Salvage School leather pushers in the squared circle on Pier 88, you see better fights than the Garden stages. And there's a laugh in every punch.
'ON STAGE EVERYBODY' At the radio finals of "On Stage Everybody," C.D. Prutzman, Vice-President of Universal Pictures, presents screen contracts to the finalists, who thereby win roles in the forthcoming film production, "On Stage Everybody."
M 69 JELLIED BOMBS - NAPALM First revealing pictures of America's Napalm bombs which turn sections of Japanese homeland cities into flames and destruction. Tests at an East Coast Proving Grounds show them to be 500 lb. clusters of 38 individual containers of jellied gasoline which burns at 1000 degree temperature. Actual battle use of these "clinging fire" bombs against the Japanese in Pacific outpost island warfare is shown.
INDUSTRIAL CODE Eric Johnson, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, and Philip Murray, President of the C.I.O. sign a code committing management and labor to joint national interests in the post-war period. Mr. Johnson explains the action in a statement.
EXPLOSION AT SEA When a U.S. ammunition ship in convoy is struck by enemy dive bombers it explodes in one terrific blast which fills the entire screen, sending one gigantic smoke ring whirling skyward.
THE RED OFFENSIVES Russia's Armies gain momentum in their terrific offensives as giant guns, rocket batteries and Stalin tanks mow down the Nazis. The enemy death toll is enormous, they surrender in droves, and their cities are methodically destroyed by shell and by torch.
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