Attack! The Battle for New Britain (1944)
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.
- Date of release
- 1944-06-20
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- War, Documentary
- Director
- Frank Capra
Casting
- Leo Genn — Narrator (voice)
- Burgess Meredith — Narrator (voice)
- Anthony Veiller — Narrator (voice)
- Lloyd Nolan — Narrator (voice)
- Douglas MacArthur — Self (archive footage)
- Walter Krueger — Self (archive footage)
Interesting facts
Attack! The Battle of New Britain is a documentary/propaganda film produced by the US military in 1944. It details, as its name implies, the New Britain campaign, which was part of the New Guinea and Solomon Islands Campaigns during World War II.
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