Charles Hass: director]]> Great Britain. Ministry of Information]]> Great Britain. Crown Film Unit]]> 1941]]> Strand Film Production]]> Arthur Elton: associate producer]]> Edgar Anstey: director]]> Alexander Shaw: producer]]> Great Britain. Ministry of Information]]> 1940]]> U.S. Army Air Forces Motion Picture Unit]]> 1944]]> Federal Security Agency]]> U.S. Office of Education]]> West Coast Sound Studios, Inc.]]> 1942]]> "Diary of a Sergeant" portrays the post-war life of a soldier who lost both of his hands on D-Day (though his injury was the result of an explosion while testing weapons on base in North Carolina). Former soldier Harold Russell stars in the film, and much of the plot is based on his own experiences after the amputation of his hands in the war. Russell would go on to win an Academy Award for playing a disabled veteran in "The Best Years of Our Lives". Russell's narration reflects on the difficulties of living with his disability and the perceived shame of not having sustained his injury while in battle. Portrays the solider learning how to complete everyday tasks with his prostheses. Posits that the technological advances in prosthetic limbs will be around far after the Nazis. Concludes with a statement from the U.S. Surgeon General.]]> U.S. Army Pictorial Service Signal Corps]]> 1945]]> Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company]]> 1943]]> National Film Board of Canada]]> UNRRA]]> 1944]]> U.S. Treasury Department Motion Pictures and Special Events Division]]> U.S. Marine Corps Photographic Service]]> 1945]]> "Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, explains the ideals we are fighting for and the price we must pay for victory. A condensation of the now famous speech which he delivered before the Free World Association in New York City on May 8, 1942." (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 33)
Includes footage of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.]]> U.S. Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures]]> Paramount Pictures]]> Pine-Thomas Productions]]> 1942]]> Federal Security Agency]]> Ray-Bell Films, Inc.]]> 1942]]>