News Spotlight

Series

Series Name
Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.
45/46
Date Released
7 Jun 1945
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1News Spotlight
  2. 2The Hungry of Holland
  3. 3General Election

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 3
Summary
Including - First meeting of Allied War Crimes Commission at the Law Courts - Lord Wright in the chair. (Contrast is made between the orderly proceedings of the AWCC to the scenes in Milan where mob rule took over and Mussolini, his mistress and accomplices were murdered and their bodies strung up to a petrol station roof). Vidkun Quisling goes on trial in Oslo. William Joyce (Haw-Haw) and wife in captivity. Midget submarines and human torpedoes at Copenhagen. Fire bombs as used on Tokyo. Filled with jellied petrol it burns at 3 thousand degrees Fahrenheit. At sea off Okinawa American navy ships send up heavy anti-aircraft barrage against Jap "suicide-planes". American aircraft return to their carriers. One fighter misses the deck and lands in the sea, but one isn’t so lucky and crashes into ship’s superstructure.
Keywords
Politics and government; Weapons; Aviation; Death; Navy; Crime; Military
Locations
Copenhagen; Italy; Tokyo; Japan; Norway; Oslo; Milan; Denmark
Length of story (in feet)
390
Story extras:
Film clip
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Name
British Pathe Ltd
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Phone
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Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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