The New Pictures, Jun. 12, 1944

Attack!—'The Invasion of New Britain

(U.S. Army Signal Corps; RKO-Radio). The subject: war. The purpose: to make war as real as possible to people who will never otherwise experience it. The result is no more entertaining than war is. But from first to last it is impossible not to stare with fascination at this film.

In one hour Attack manages to give a remarkably clear picture of the whole task of invading bejungled beaches. Not even the great Desert Victory (TIME, April 12, 1943) has made so articulate the tremendous collaboration of...

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