Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glouster, New Britain island in 1943 in the South Pacific theatre of World War Two, and the handicaps of the wild jungle in addition to the Japanese snipers and pill-box emplacements.
Direction
Capra's propaganda mastery makes logistics viscerally terrifying.
Editing
Razor-sharp cuts between HQ maps and mangrove swamp carnage.
Practical Effects
Every explosion is real; every death is documented.
Director
Frank Capra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Capra's 'Why We Fight' series, this was shown to troops before deployment and civilians to justify Pacific casualties.
Burgess Meredith narrated this between service in the Army Air Corps and his later blacklist-era career slump.
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