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There is some amazing footage shot by combat cameramen. These men were in the military, and went in with the attacking troops just about everywhere US troops saw action. They were unarmed, because they had all they could deal with trying to keep their cameras out of the water, mud and sand. The cameras weighed seventy pounds, and held enough film for about two minutes of shooting. A dark place was needed to reload the film, which could be hard to come by, but they improvised brilliantly. There were also still photographers on most operations. All this film and the photos are in the National Archives.
Color film had just been invented right before the war, and there was not much available. The Navy quickly bought up all the color film stock the Kodak Corporation had in its warehouses, which was not a lot. But there are some Navy films in color, also in the National Archives.
Fighter planes had gun cameras mounted in the wings, beside their machine guns. These automatically started rolling when the pilot pressed the trigger, so he could get confirmation of destruction of enemy aircraft. The pilot could also start the camera without firing the guns. This footage is also in the National Archives.
There were two big newsreel companies during WWII. They made short films of the news, both overseas and on the home front. These were shown in movie theaters, in between feature films. Most Americans went to the movies once a week. They changed the features about that often, more movies were made back then, admission prices were much cheaper (nine cents for kids), and there was not yet television of any kind in homes. Movietone News was one of the newsreel companies, and I forget the other. The entire library of one or the other was given to the University of South Carolina some years ago. They're trying to stabilize and preserve it. This was usually not actual combat footage, for the most part, but a lot of overseas stuff and just after-action shots.
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