What Makes a Battle (1944)

The Department of War sponsored films to promote the sale of war bonds. Many emphasized the war's cost in human terms by depicting the wounded and the dead in actual combat footage and in dramatizations.

Record Group 56--General Records of the Department of the Treasury: 56.13 "What Makes a Battle (Signal Corps Miscellaneous Film No. 1037)" (1944). The capture of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, including aid to the wounded. (16 min., sound, black & white, 16mm & 35mm)



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