Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive

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  • Tags: 1945

TheEnemyStrikes.jpg
This 1945 film intended for U.S. civilian audiences uses violent battlefield footage from the fall of 1944 to shame people back home who considered the war over and were returning to a pre-war lifestyle. Scenes show the liberation of Ardennes, France…

TheCallsThatCure.jpg
This film shows the telephone center and the bedside telephone service in a U.S. Army hospital. Various sizes of telephone booths are provided for men in wheelchairs or with cumbersome splints. Discusses the beneficial impact on a soldiers health by…

RememberTheseFaces.jpg
"[A] U.S. Navy production which tells how American lives are being saved on the battlefields. It is the story of the courage and sacrifice of the members of the medical force who go ashore with the troops in invasion. With its action beginning on a…

PerishableRush.jpg
Shows how the Army Air Forces during World War II flew wounded men from Pacific battle areas to hospitals and home towns in the United States. Uses a mix of actual footage and fictional reenactments to follow a soldier from being wounded in action,…

ObjectiveSecurity.jpg
"Story of a momentous experiment behind the battle lines. Here's the surprise story of thousands of Okinawa civilians who found out about American government from members of the Army-Navy-Marine civil affairs team that hit the Okinawa beach on…

DiaryOfASergeant.jpg
"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…

TargetInvisible.jpg
Illustrates the use of radar on a bombing mission over Japan, and explains the work of the "mysterious 11th member of the crew" - the radar operator. In a final scene, the film is revealed to have been produced after the war, and a narrator…
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