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9 September 1943  [PRESIDENT TALKS TO AMERICAN BOYS FIGHTING OVERSEAS] SPECTACULAR FILMS OF CONVOY BATTLE IN MEDITERRANEAN. ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY. TESTING GIANT AIR BOMBS. HEDY LAMARR SELLS WAR BONDS. TYRONE POWER JOINS MARINES. By ED THORGENSON AND TOM CUMMISKEY. First Pictures: THE CAPTURE OF THE SOLOMONS. В журнале: 9 сентября 1943 года [ПРЕЗИДЕНТ БЕСЕДУЕТ С АМЕРИКАНСКИМИ МАЛЬЧИКАМИ, ВОЮЮЩИМИ ЗА ГРАНИЦЕЙ] ЗАХВАТЫВАЮЩИЕ ФИЛЬМЫ О СРАЖЕНИИ КОНВОЕВ В СРЕДИЗЕМНОМ МОРЕ. АРСЕНАЛ ДЕМОКРАТИИ. ИСПЫТАНИЯ ГИГАНТСКИХ АВИАБОМБ. ХЕДИ ЛАМАРР ПРОДАЕТ ВОЕННЫЕ ОБЛИГАЦИИ. ТАЙРОН ПАУЭР ПРИСОЕДИНЯЕТСЯ К МОРСКОЙ ПЕХОТЕ. ЭД ТОРГЕНСОН И ТОМ КАММИСКИ. Первые фотографии: ЗАХВАТ СОЛОМОНОВЫХ ОСТРОВОВ.

9 September 1943 [[PRESIDENT TALKS TO AMERICAN BOYS FIGHTING OVERSEAS]] [[Described by ANTHONY MUTO]][[Introduced by LOWELL THOMAS]] [00:05] (introductory music) Spoken before the International Student Assembly, the President's words go to soldiers at home and afar. {PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT} "You young Americans today are conducting yourselves in a manner that is worthy of the highest, proudest traditions of our nation. No pilgrims who landed on the unchartered New England coast, no pioneers who forced their way through the trackless wilderness showed greater fortitude, greater determination than you are showing now. Neither your own fathers in 1918, nor your fathers' fathers in 1863 or 1776 fought with greater gallantry or more selfless devotion to duty and country than you are now displaying on battlefields far from home. And what is more, you know why you are fighting. You know that the road which has led you to the Solomon Islands or to the Red Sea or the coast of France is, in fact, an extension of Main Street. And that when you fight anywhere along that road, you are fighting in the defense of your own homes, your own free schools, your churches, and your own ideals. We here at home are supremely conscious of our obligations to you now and in the future. We will not let you down." [[SPECTACULAR FILMS OF CONVOY BATTLE IN MEDITERRANEAN]] [[Supervised by RUSSELL MUTH]][[Described by LOWELL THOMAS]] [01:53] (music throughout) This convoy bound for Malta is steaming into a great ship and plane battle. Filmed from a British carrier, these are classic scenes of air attack. A rain of bombs. (explosions) (anti-aircraft fire) Anti-aircraft guns seam the sky with shell bursts aimed at the bombers. (explosions, plane engine) Shells from the cannon of Axis planes strafing the convoy. (anti-aircraft fire, explosions) Enemy planes face a storm of fire. (explosions) Crippled Axis bomber, badly hit, she's a goner. (explosion) An oil tanker, American, burning, but they put it out, and she got to Malta. Patrol boats come out and depth-bomb the U-boats. (explosion) The convoy has fought its way through to the harbor at Valletta. Some ships damaged, like that one hit by a bomb. The convoy suffered losses, but so did the enemy. The main thing is that Malta urgently needs supplies, and the convoy has brought supplies. [[ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY]] [[Prepared by JACK HANEY]][[Described by LOWELL THOMAS]] [03:26] (introductory music) [[MAKING BOFORS GUNS]] [03:31] (music throughout) Mass production at Akron, Ohio, of the famous Bofors gun which made history in the great German blitz attacks on London. Hundreds of Nazi planes were shot down by this type of weapon, which established itself as the best anti-aircraft gun in the world, up to 6,000 feet. It shoots with deadly accuracy, and can fire from vertical to perpendicular. The barrel moving fast enough to follow a plane diving at 500 miles an hour. Turned out by the thousand, the versatile anti-aircraft gun which can also be used against tanks. [[TESTING GIANT AIR BOMBS]] [04:09] And that's about as big as bombs come, A 2,000 pounder. One ton of concentrated destruction. At the Aberdeen proving ground in Maryland, the Army is trying out some of its more powerful devastations. So let's go along and see the fireworks. At 10,000 feet, they release the 2,000 pound bomb, and it flashes down to hit the ground like that. (explosion) And another giant missile shows its power. (explosion) [[Movie Stars In the News]] [[Edited by HARRY LAWRENSON]][[Described by HELEN CLAIRE]] [04:42] (introductory music) [[HEDY LAMARR SELLS WAR BONDS]] [04:48] (music throughout) Thronging to see Hedy Lamarr and to buy war bonds. She's a star, not only of motion pictures, but also of bond selling. Her record: three and a half million dollars worth to date, says she, smiling. And here's how she does it. At Newark, New Jersey, a big event in the bond-selling drive sponsored by the motion picture industry, and the letter is V. [[TYRONE POWER JOINS MARINES]] [05:17] (introductory music) The oath to Tyrone Power, administered by Major W.A. Howard. {W.A. HOWARD} "I, Tyrone Edmund Power," {TYRONE POWER} "I, Tyrone Edmund Power," {HOWARD} "do hereby acknowledge that I voluntarily enlisted as a private, do hereby acknowledge" {POWER} "do hereby acknowledge that I voluntarily enlisted as a private" {HOWARD} "in the volunteer Marine Corps Reserve" {POWER} "in the volunteer Marine Corps Reserve" {HOWARD} "for the duration of the national emergency" {POWER} "for the duration of the national emergency" {HOWARD "so help you God." {POWER} "so help me God." {HOWARD} "Congratulations." {POWER} "Thank you, Major." [[SPORTS]] [[By ED THORGENSON AND TOM CUMMISKEY]] [05:50] (music throughout) The camera highlights in the world of sports. On the famed center court at Long Island's Forest Hills this sunny summer afternoon, Louise Brough encounters the hard-hitting stylist Pauline Betz in an all-California final of the National Women's Championship. If past performance counts at all, the tilt should be a walk-away for the nineteen-year-old Miss Brough, for she's twice taken the measure of the Los Angeles girl this year. But inspired tennis is the unpredictable. While Miss Louise takes the first set, Miss Betz thereafter hits the fiery peak of her season's form. Miss Brough, pounded to the baseline by the hard, accurate, cross-court fire of her fighting opponent goes down in the second set, taking but 1 game in 7. Her season's spotless record in grass competition is on the line (applause) in the third and crucial set. Pauline Betz serving match point, seemingly without a flaw. In a beautiful racket-wheeling display, the gal goes all out in a final winning surge. For the gallant, fighting Louise, the tempo was much too hot. (yells) Youth this afternoon comes out second best. The final tally gets Pauline Betz the crown: 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Rollins college boasts the National Women's Tennis Champion for the coming year. [[First Pictures: THE CAPTURE OF THE SOLOMONS]] [[Described by LOWELL THOMAS]] [06:54] (music throughout) The Marines are on their way to attack the Japs in the Solomon Islands, a surprise attack. Right kind of bad weather, overcast skies concealing the convoy from enemy air observation. Warships heaving mightily in the heavy sea. Constant air protection by carrier-based planes and land-based Flying Fortresses. (plane engine) Into the landing boats, men and equipment, vehicles of war. This is how the Marines made their landings in the Solomon Islands and captured vital island bases from the enemy. Official Marine Corps motion pictures. It is a complete surprise for the Japs, and their hasty defense is quelled by bombardment, shelled by our warships. (cannon fire) (inaudible) and destruction wrought by high explosive clears the way for the capture of islands in the Solomons, strategic bases for the United Nations. And there is little Jap resistance to the landing of the Marines. They swarm ashore for the first offensive drive to hurl the Jap enemy from conquered lands. The leathernecks promptly fortify a position taken from the Japs. This was one of their camps. Now it becomes a stronghold of the Marines as they establish themselves to expel the enemy from islands completely. And American sky power now occupies a capture Jap airbase. (airplane engine) The island of Guadalcanal, and the first American flag to fly over a conquered Jap stronghold.