First-Time Viewing

Attack! The Battle for New Britain

Release Date:June 20, 1944

Running Time:56 min

Genres:Documentary, War

Director

Frank Capra

Cast

Leo Genn Burgess Meredith Anthony Veiller Lloyd Nolan Douglas MacArthur Walter Krueger

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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.

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