# WAR BULLETIN 10 BOXER BARNEY ROSS WAR DOGS I WAS THERE MALTA 24294

“This is an Official Film. Its showing is limited to those persons authorized to attend War Department theaters under Army Regulations 210-390 July 10, 1942.” With that, this black-and-white film —“The War: A Current Information Film for the Armed Services #10” — begins as a medley of “The Army Goes Rolling Along,” “The US Air Force Song,” and “Anchors Away” play with the opening credits. Produced by the War Department, the Army Service Forces Special Service Division, and the Signal Corps (with the cooperation of the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard), we are introduced at mark 00:57 to the “newest, biggest battlewagon on any ocean in the world,” a ship that “belongs to the USA.” This is the battleship USS North Carolina. Although specifics such as speed, complement, and armament, and patrol area are all secret, the viewer is assured that “any enemy aircraft that spots her won’t get back to its base.” Following a demonstration of the unidentified ship’s fire power, the film cuts to “Tell My Boy” at mark 02:45, as a montage of parents are shown, a female narrator reminds the viewer that “we gave our sons to our beloved America. Proudly we wait for news from them,” as the viewer is told how the Civilian Volunteer Self Defense Office of the Bronx organized a program so that foreign-speaking parents could dictate a letter to their sons in the armed forces. “This is only a small part of the war effort but what a great deal it means to these mothers and fathers —…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/24294thewarbulleton10)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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