The Video History of Our Times (newsreel footage) - 1944
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] bre easier this year of
[0:02] 1944 on all the bloody battlefronts of
[0:05] World War II allied forces are
[0:07] relentlessly pressing the enemy back
[0:10] this year the war will reach its turning
[0:12] point in the Pacific the Japanese will
[0:14] suffer heavy losses in the battle of the
[0:16] Philippine Sea and late Gulf the
[0:19] retaking of the Philippines will begin
[0:20] and there will be victory in Burma and
[0:23] most important in Europe 1944 will be
[0:26] the year of D-Day and the Normandy
[0:28] invasion under the command land of
[0:30] General Dwight de Eisenhower Paris will
[0:32] be joyfully liberated as well as the
[0:35] rest of France Belgium and Luxembourg
[0:38] the Soviet Army and civilians will
[0:40] defeat German forces besieging Leningrad
[0:42] as it did the year before at Stalingrad
[0:45] and the Germans will stage their last
[0:47] desperate but unsuccessful attempt to
[0:50] hold back the unrelenting onslaught of
[0:52] the Allied armies in the Battle of the
[0:54] Bulge while London reels under the fury
[0:57] of Nazi V2 rocket bombs this and much
[1:00] more is the year
[1:02] 1944 let's
[1:04] watch goodbye Mama I'm off to yokahama
[1:09] for the red white and blue my country
[1:12] and you goodbye Mama I'm off to yokahama
[1:17] just to teach all those Japs the anano
[1:20] saps a million fighting sons of Uncle
[1:23] Sam if you please we'll soon have all
[1:26] those Japs right down on their Japanese
[1:29] so good by Mama I'm off to yokahama for
[1:33] my country my flag and
[1:42] you say goodbye to Mama you're off to
[1:45] Yama so be brave and be strong you won't
[1:49] be gone long say bye bye Mama the land
[1:53] of yamama until April I guess we be your
[1:57] address
[2:00] oh
[2:34] American Army Air Force nurses a