Movie: Attack! The Battle for New Britain

Top 6 Billed Cast

Leo Genn
Leo Genn

Narrator (voice)

Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith

Narrator (voice)

Anthony Veiller
Anthony Veiller

Narrator (voice)

Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan

Narrator (voice)

Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur

Self (archive footage)

Walter Krueger
Walter Krueger

Self (archive footage)

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    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.

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    1944-06-20

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