War's dramatic action reaches the far north as coastguardsmen blast their way through ice
flows off Greenland in an attempt to break up establishment of Nazi bases.
The hunt went on for two months, just a few hundred miles from the North Pole.
Then the Navy task force objectives were armed German trawlers and a heavily mined radio
and weather station in service on the island.
The relentless search continued day and night.
Sixty Nazi prisoners were taken.
Hidden in icy caves, much scientific equipment was captured along with the crew of the Nazi
weather station.
From this point, valuable information had been radioed to enemy planes and bases.
Two coastguard cutters tracked down a brand new 180 foot Nazi trawler and cornered her
in the ice.
One trawler was scuttled by its crew who were taken aboard the Cutter Northland.
During the Arctic operation, a third armed trawler and another enemy installation were
discovered.
Both had been abandoned a short time before and both were destroyed by our task force.
Fighting the heavy drifts, the Northland finally smashed her rudder and only heroic efforts
saved her from enemy attack.
These are Coast Guard and newsreel pictures.
A prized crew brought the captured trawler Exchensteiner to Boston.
Boarded before the German crew had time to set off demolition charges, the ship is complete
in every detail.
Rocket launchers and 37 millimeter guns were part of her armor.
Our vital mid-Atlantic base is safe thanks to the unceasing vigilance of the Greenland
Patrol.
From Strasbourg, Nazi positions across the Rhine are shelled.
Despite savage Nazi resistance, Strasbourg was taken and Kale came within range of American
guns.
Pillboxes are smashed.
A factory is blasted.
Our gunners are really on target.
The Rhine is no barrier to Yang artillery.
These pictures filmed by the underground and smuggled to their government in exile in London
are the first scenes to be shown of the Warsaw uprising.
Germans bombed and shelled sections held by the Poles and finally were able to move tanks
and heavy equipment into the recaptured city.
The two month long revolt was a bloody and heroic battle and starving Poles stripped
dead horses for food.
Not to capitulate when no help came, the Poles signed an armistice with the Nazis.
Once more the Germans took over all parts of Warsaw and the infantry reappears, but
the battle's not over.
The Patriots go underground once more to go to work with secret printing presses turning
out more than a hundred publications for the people.
And such lists as this report of the German atrocities at Lublin.
The Germans systematically reduce the Warsaw ghetto to rubble, exterminating uncounted thousands.
The underground still cover public places with their symbols of resistance and every
day sees new examples of their unrelenting courage in acts of sabotage.
So efficient is their work that during the year only two-thirds of Nazi troops and supplies
reach their destinations.
They dare to string up caricatures of Hitler.
Poland will never die.
The French Embassy in Washington takes on renewed activity as the capital prepares to
welcome Monsieur Henri Bonnet, first accredited ambassador from the provisional French government.
Madame Bonnet accompanies the new envoy to his post.
Monsieur Bonnet, formerly Minister of Information in the De Gaulle government, will have an
important part in post-war world diplomacy.
Britain's Home Guard, whose dogged courage stood between England and disaster in the
early war days, parades in stand-down ceremonies, witnessed by the king and royal family in
Hyde Park.
These are the men who, unpaid and almost unarmed, responded to their commander and patrolled
roads, watched for Nazi parachutists, and undertook the hundreds of home defense jobs
when England's back was to the wall.
Thousands of Londoners paused to pay tribute to these heroes.
England will never forget her citizen soldiers.
Patriotism and war bonds packed the Coliseum in Houston, Texas, for a championship match
between champ Mildred Burke in white and the challenger Mae Weston.
11,000 bought 20 millions in bonds to see these two dignified young ladies have a quiet
run.
Now, hold your hats.
Here we go.
Mildred gives her a nice love slap, but Mae comes right back with a tummy massage.
The champ lays down for a little rest while Mae obligingly gives her dear friend a rub
down and then a facial.
The girl's a really old friend, you can see.
Now, may I return the compliment, says the champ, and return it with interest?
Oh, Mildred, really, must you leave?
Well, don't come back.
Back so soon?
It's nice to have you with me again, the champ says, but Mae, there's not enough room here
for both of us.
Now Mae, here's a new twist for you, and for the last time.
Once more, it is my privilege to give you my greetings for the new year.
All of us hope that the war against Germany will be over within the next few months, and
that our victorious sailors, soldiers, and airmen will soon be with us again.
We must, however, remember that our impeccable enemies have their backs to the war and that
they will fight with all their strength to delay the inevitable end.
But our men are in good heart, and we know that they will fight with the same undaunted
bravery that has earned for Canada and her armed services the admiration of the whole
civilized world.
And so I bid you be of good cheer, and I join upon each one of you to make a New Year's
resolution to support and encourage the armed forces of Canada and our allies by every possible
means and with redoubled enthusiasm and energy.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.