{"id":1032,"ia_identifier":"gov.archives.arc.38977","programme":"nara","naid":"38977","local_identifier":"208-UN-70","pin":null,"title":"AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA DRIVE JAPANESE FROM LAE!","year":1943,"date_raw":"1943-01-01T00:00:00Z","creator":null,"description":"National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38977, LI 208-UN-70 - AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA DRIVE JAPANESE FROM LAE! - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion Picture Films from \"United News\" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, planes bomb Lae; ships bombard the city; Australian soldiers go ashore in landing craft. Gen. MacArthur confers with officers and then flies in an airborne operation. Paratroops prepare for a mission, man planes, jump over Lae, and join Australian troops in making a landing strip. Part 2, shows the landing at Salerno, Italy. The invasion convoy crosses the Mediterranean. Troops go ashore at night. Navy guns blast enemy positions and down German planes. Shows damaged ships. Gen. Clark comes ashore and confers with Gen. Alexander. Troops dig in and then advance. Shows nurses treating wounded soldiers. German prisoners are moved to the rear.","licenseurl":"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","collections":["FedFlix","usgovfilms","newsandpublicaffairs"],"ia_metadata":{"_rg":"208","date":"1943-01-01T00:00:00Z","year":1943,"title":"AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA DRIVE JAPANESE FROM LAE!","_series":"Motion Picture Films from \"United News\" Newsreels","creator":"National Archives and Records Administration","credits":"Uploaded by Public.Resource.Org","subject":["archives.gov","public.resource.org"],"_rg_holder":["Office of War Information","federal"],"collection":["FedFlix","usgovfilms","newsandpublicaffairs"],"identifier":"gov.archives.arc.38977","licenseurl":"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","description":"National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38977, LI 208-UN-70 - AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA DRIVE JAPANESE FROM LAE! - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion Picture Films from \"United News\" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, planes bomb Lae; ships bombard the city; Australian soldiers go ashore in landing craft. Gen. MacArthur confers with officers and then flies in an airborne operation. Paratroops prepare for a mission, man planes, jump over Lae, and join Australian troops in making a landing strip. Part 2, shows the landing at Salerno, Italy. The invasion convoy crosses the Mediterranean. Troops go ashore at night. Navy guns blast enemy positions and down German planes. Shows damaged ships. Gen. Clark comes ashore and confers with Gen. Alexander. Troops dig in and then advance. Shows nurses treating wounded soldiers. German prisoners are moved to the rear."},"status":"government-work-uncertain","reason":"Not asserted: the record does not name the creating body; its local identifier places it in NARA record group 208 (Office of War Information), a federal agency's records, which is evidence of federal origin but not proof of authorship, since agencies also filed acquired and captured footage (it belongs to the series 'Motion Picture Films from \"United News\" Newsreels', which may hold captured or acquired footage as well as government productions).","flags":["no-creator","record-group-federal"],"loaded_at":"2026-09-05 17:30:32.534499+00:00","downloads":436}