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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. British planes bomb Brunswick, Germany, and British and Canadian soldiers fight in Holland. 2. How harbor facilities made in England were used in the Normandy invasion; a storm damages the harbor, but unloading continues. 3. Aachen, Germany, is taken by U.S. troops after a heavy artillery barrage; German citizens are removed from the battle areas.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: Generals Zhukov, Spaatz, and Tedder receive General Keitel's surrender at Berlin; scenes at Munich; German Generals Goring, Kesselring, and von Runstedt are captured; General E.H. Brooks receives Germany's surrender in Austria; Admiral Doenitz is captured; British sailors board German U-boats at Antwerp; citizens of Brussels and Paris celebrate in the streets; General de Gaulle visits...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Steel pipe, tubing, and cable are manufactured; British ships lay an oil line across the English Channel. 2. Secretary of State Stettinius reports on the San Francisco Conference. 3. Naval guns bombard Okinawa; 7th Army units and 6th Division Marines use tanks and rocket launchers. 4. Berchtesgaden, Germany, in ruins; 101st Airborne Division troops recapture Goring's art works; Generals...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. preparations for the World Security Conference in Chicago. 2. Attacking the Kerama Islands; Admiral Turner and General Buckner direct operations; troop-carrying barges swarm ashore and the Keramas are won; opening the offensive against Okinawa with approximately 100,000 troops. 3. In Washington, D.C., three eminent spokesmen for labor and business meet to sign an agreement to promote...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Panoramic views of Istanbul; Von Papen leaves Turkey by train; Churchill meets with President Inonu of Turkey. 2. Prefabricated concrete barges are manufactured. 3. General de Gaulle visits the Vatican. 4. UNRRA operating schools and food dispensaries in French Morocco. 5. Vice President Wallace inspects livestock on Siberian farms. 6. The 1st Army marches through towns in northern...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. British and U.S. troops advance in northern France. 2. French troops take Sienna, Italy. 3. Allied planes attack a German convoy in the English Channel. 4. Soviet and captured German films show battle scenes along the Russian front.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at the 1943 Teheran Conference; U.S. troops land and fight on Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and other Pacific islands; Russian troops advance to Romania and capture German soldiers; ships carrying equipment, supplies, and men are loaded in England and cross the English Channel; paratroops jump at Caen; troops land under a naval barrage; citizens...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Secretary Hull, Molotov, Eden, Averell Harriman, and T. V. Soong sign the Moscow Pact. 2. Marines celebrate 168th anniversary. 3. General Clark receives an honorary degree from Naples University. 4. Chiang Kai-shek, Admiral Mountbatten, and Generals Stilwell and Somervell meet in Chungking. 5. Army nurses take combat training in Italy. 6. F.D.R., Gromyko, and Lord Halifax sign an UNRRA...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. A UN rally and parade in Santiago, Chile. 2. A naval battle rages off the Solomon Islands; Admirals Halsey and Nimitz; General MacArthur lands in New Guinea; planes land reinforcements; artillery pounds Japanese positions; infantry advances through jungle swamps. 3. U.S. troops board transports bound for Africa; American and British convoys.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The aircraft carriers Saratoga and Bunker Hill are partially disabled by Japanese kamikaze planes. 2. General Eisenhower reviews a parade in Abilene, Kansas. 3. President Truman receives an honorary degree from the University of Kansas City and speaks on the United Nations; President Truman arrives at the U.S. Capitol with the United Nations Charter.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The Rose Parade in Pasadena. 2. UN delegate Stettinius, Mrs. Roosevelt, and various senators pose for photographers. 3. Chinese citizens greet General Marshall. 4. Japanese POWs board a ship in California. 5. President Truman speaks about "a year of decisions." 6. General Patton's funeral in Hamm, Luxemburg. 7. The 82nd Airborne Division disembarks in New York. 8. General Homma pleads...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. German films of the Battle of the Bulge; Roosevelt is inaugurated at the White House and poses at Yalta with Churchill and Stalin; his funeral in Washington; Truman is sworn in; Generals Jodl and W. B. Smith sign the German surrender at Reims, France; General Eisenhower; kamikaze planes attack ships in the Pacific; the invasion of Okinawa; an atom bomb is exploded; Shigemitsu and MacArthur...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. U.S. bombers take off and land at an Australian air base. 2. Mrs. Roosevelt attends a ceremony honoring nurses who served in the Pacific; women operating a lumber mill, testing tanks, and making guns. 3. Iron ore is dug, loaded, and delivered to mills. 4. The National Professional tennis championship. 5. A test flight of a Navy flying boat. 6. Canadian submarine chasers drop charges....
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Kwajalein is bombarded from the air, from naval guns, and from artillery batteries; U.S. troops land and advance inland under a constant artillery barrage; flamethrowers and satchel charges are used against pillboxes; Japanese prisoners are deloused and given medical treatment; Admiral Nimitz witnesses the raising of the American flag.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Troops fight at Anzio. 2. Under Secretary of State Stettinius returns from London. 3. Enlistees in the WAC, WAVES, and SPARS model uniforms; U.S. Navy nurses on Guadalcanal. 4. A baby contest in California. 5. The Forest Service uses a snow plow to clear Montana roads. 6. Admiral John Beardall is decorated at the U.S. Naval Academy; midshipmen pass in review. 7. The Kentucky Derby....
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Equipment and supplies are unloaded. 2. Navy nurses model summer uniforms; women join the WAC; WAC Colonel Oveta C. Hobby; women dispatch carriers ride motorcycles. 3. A track meet at Madison Square Garden. 4. How V-Mail is handled. 5. A Japanese cruiser burns during a naval fight near Midway; Admiral Nimitz presents decorations; bombers are manufactured; midshipmen graduate and parade...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. President Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Winston Churchill, and Eduard Benes meet at the White House. 2. Canadian timber is processed in a lumber mill. 3. Woodrow Wilson sees the takeoff of the first air mail plane. 4. Henry Kaiser inspects a Kaiser steel mill in California; tanks roll from assembly line. 5. U.S. troops land on Attu Island; Australian planes bomb Japanese bases in New Guinea;...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Bombers strike Japanese bases in the Aleutians; the "Flying Tigers" bomb Hong Kong. 2. Coast Guardsmen man a Danish windjammer. 3. Citizens donate blood. 4. Canadian women manufacture small arms. 5. Ships constructed in Brazil; laying an anti-submarine net. 6. British planes bomb a German factory in the Netherlands.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Allied troops receive a ticker-tape parade. 2. Army motorcycle dispatch riders take cross-country test. 3. Henry Ford and Donald Nelson inspect bomber and tank plants. 4. Victory ships are constructed and launched. 5. General Hugh Drum and Admiral Andrews attend an Army-Navy benefit horse race. 6. South American military experts view U.S. land and air forces. 7. U.S. soldiers and nurses...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Colonel Hobby reviews a Women's Army Corps parade; WAC tours the European countryside. 2. Commercial movies are converted to 16mm for showing at army posts; Ann Miller, Greer Garson, Linda Darnell, John Garfield, Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Heddy Lamar. 3. Trout are sorted and graded at a Canadian fish hatchery. 4. Filipino troops in the U.S. Army are issued bolo knives. 5. Naval air...