I. 'ATLANTIC CONVOY.' This item duplicates Item IV of WPN 134.

II. 'NEW GUINEA- JUNGLE PARATROOPS.' This item duplicates Item V of WPN 134.

III. 'NEW ROAD NOW LINKS U.S.' Map of Canada and Alaska shows the newly constructed road (AlCan Highway) between Fairbanks (Alaska) and Edmonton (Canada). The Union flag and United States flag fly side by side at an AlCan Highway control station on the border between Alaska and Canada. A US Army truck has its wheel hub nuts tightened and is refuelled prior to continuing its long journey. Drivers of the US soft-skins play roughly with a tame bear, their antics being watched by a group of American Indians. A convoy of trucks moves off down the highway. Close up footage shows a soft-skin driver wearing a face mask against road dust stirred up by the vehicle convoy. US soft-skins drive along the main street of the Yukon town of Whitehorse past a beached riverboat Yukoner. Main street views of Whitehorse show timberboard shops which include a beer parlour and "Macpherson's Drugstore". A US enlisted man takes an inventory at one of the numerous petrol-oil storage sites on the route of the AlCan Highway. A convoy of trucks drives past the camera position.

IV. 'THE WAR IN ITALY.' A US 155mm artillery gun is fired from the cover of camouflage netting (loading and firing sequences). A US 105mm howitzer is fired at high elevation. US Fifth Army infantry carrying a Browning Automatic Rifle, Garand .30-inch self loading rifles and a Colt M1911A1 .45-inch automatic pistol (officer) run uphill under sporadic shellfire. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) North American B-25 Mitchell bombers are escorted by Curtiss P-40 fighter aircraft as they overfly Stromboli Island. Operational footage shows B-25 Mitchell aircraft bombing a crossroads. British Eighth Army M4 Sherman tanks drive past the camera position carrying extra track-links on their hull as added protection against anti-tank rounds. British infantry armed with Lee-Enfield Mk III .303-inch rifles use the bulk of a slow moving M4 Sherman as cover from snipers as they move along the main street of a small Italian village. Brief footage shows Lieutenant-General Mark W Clark (Commander US Fifth Army) consulting an unidentified US 82nd Airborne Division Brigadier General (Matthew B Ridgway ?). British infantry fire their weapons from the cover of building rubble (interesting view of a Bren .303-inch light machine gun mounted on a tripod instead of its more usual integral bipod mounting). Brief footage shows civilians walking out of the main gates of an unidentified Italian concentration camp (overhead sign reads Campo di Concentramento). US infantry rest by the roadside in the environs of Naples as Willys GP Jeeps drive past. British tank crews attend to minor servicing on their convoy of M4 Sherman tanks parked in a Naples street.

Notes

Sound: track on Item IV is somewhat patchy.

Summary: items III and IV have an American commentary. This issue was presumably assembled by the WPN team for exhibition to US forces in the Middle East in the absence of a complete US newsreel.