DEFENCE: World War 2: Americans keep up offensive in Pacific (1944)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Americans keep up offensive in Pacific. Islands essential to Japanese defence bombarded by sea and Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Planes Blast Truk, Key Base in Pacific PACIFIC ISLANDS: Truk: EXT GV battleships at sea. SV planes on deck pilots climbing into cockpits. GV firing at Jap planes in distance and flak bursting. SV shell bursts in sky. LV tracers firing at Jap plane. GV Jap plane explodes in water near aircraft carrier. SV planes on deck moving off. BV plane takes off from carrier. GV planes in air. Shot from plane tracers towards Jap aircraft carrier. Shot from plane bomb exploding near ship. Shot from plane tracers shooting towards ship. AV showing ships and big column of smoke in bay. AV tracers towards Jap planes on drome. AV Jap planes burning on drome, tracers being fired. AV p