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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. ARABIAN PRINCE REVIEWS CADETS AT U.S. NAVAL SCHOOL [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. ARABIAN PRINCE REVIEWS CADETS AT U.S. NAVAL SCHOOL [ETC.]

Part 1, the Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia reviews a parade of midshipmen at the Naval Academy. Part 2, Red Cross girls, riding camels, sightsee in Egypt. Part 3, the allied military government in Palermo, Sicily, disarms civilians, operates a bread line, and releases Sicilians from military prisons. Part 4, Gens. de Gaulle and Giraud review French troops in North Africa. At Casablanca, the generals witness the arrival of lend-lease military equipment. Part 5, 5th Army troops enter villages north of Naples, Italy, behind tanks and artillery. Gens. Eisenhower and Clark meet.

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 17]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 17]

Part 1 Gunder Haegg and Gil Dodds run a 2-mile race in Los Angeles Coliseum. Part 2, WAVES graduate at Hunter College, N.Y. Part 3 shows uniforms of Army nurses. Nurses go through an obstacle course. Part 4, French Gen. Giraud visits the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, LaFayette Square in Washington, D.C., and Mt. Vernon. Part 5, allied planes and naval guns bombard Sicily as glider-borne and airborne troops invade Sicily. Shows British Gens. Tender, Alexander, and Montgomery; Adm. Cunningham; and Gens. Eisenhower and Patton. Flashbacks show Italian troops marching and Mussolini addressing a crowd. President Roosevelt discusses unconditional surrender.

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 15]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 15]

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98773 View

Childs, J. Rives (James Rives), 1893-1987. Papers of James Rives Childs 1823-1950.

Title: Papers of James Rives Childs

The collection contains minutes, 1938-1939, of negotiations for an American-French capitulations convention and an American-French commercial treaty concerning the U.S. and French Morocco. There are Childs's memos, 1940, on the war in Palestine and the Zionist movement, memos, 1938-1940, on the political and diplomatic scenes in North Africa, and resumés of telegrams sent, 1941-1942, on the Allied invasion of North Africa. Also included are dispatches to the Department of State, 1941-1943, from Tangier following Childs's appointment as chargé d'affaires after the Spanish occupation of the city. Other items are a letter of thanks, 1921 March 3, to Childs from Woodrow Wilson, a letter, 1950 August 28, from Harry Truman accepting Childs's resignations from his posts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and a hand-painted commedation, 1922, in an embroidered cover from his Kazan coworkers in the American Relief Administration. The collection also contains a note of recommendation, 1823 December 16, from Thomas Jefferson for bricklayer Mr. [William B.] Phillips.

ArchivalResource: 318 items

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 14]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 14]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. LATEST PICTURES WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN NORTH AFRICA [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. LATEST PICTURES WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN NORTH AFRICA [ETC.]

Part 1, Gens. Eisenhower and Clark review U.S. troops in North Africa. Gen. Doolittle inspects airbases. Shows French and Sengalese troops. French Gen. Henri Giraud is met at the Washington, D.C. airport by Gen. Joseph McNarney. Part 2, P-38 airplanes are unloaded and assembled in Australia. Part 3, the British 8th Army occupies Benghazi in North Africa. Part 4, aircraft carriers and other ships withstand a Japanese aerial assault.

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. ITALIAN ISLANDS FIRST TO FALL AS INVASION BEGINS [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. ITALIAN ISLANDS FIRST TO FALL AS INVASION BEGINS [ETC.]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 16]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 16]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. 514 WEST POINT CADETS GRADUATE INTO U.S. ARMY [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. 514 WEST POINT CADETS GRADUATE INTO U.S. ARMY [ETC.]

Part 1, Gen. Arnold presents "wings" to future Army Air Force officers and the Cadet Corps passes in review at West Point. Part 2, Gunder Hagg, Swedish track star, lands in the U.S. and begins training. Part 3, the British Navy captures German troops attempting to escape in small boats off the African coast. Gens. Eisenhower and Giraud review a gigantic French-American military parade in Tunis. Part 4, allied planes bomb German bases in France. Liberator

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Henri Honoré Giraud report, 1940

Title: Henri Honoré Giraud report 1940

Relates to causes of the French military defeat in 1940. Report to Philippe Pétain, chief of state of France.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume; (0.2 linear feet)

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. FORCES BLAST JAPANESE FROM ATTU [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. FORCES BLAST JAPANESE FROM ATTU [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. LATEST FILMS OF ALLIED DRIVE IN NORTH AFRICA [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. LATEST FILMS OF ALLIED DRIVE IN NORTH AFRICA [ETC.]

Part 1, the British 8th Army advances through mud in Tunisia. Shows Gens. Eisenhower and Henri Giraud. Part 2, Chinese air cadets train and graduate in the U.S. Part 3, Marines return from a raid on a Japanese outpost. Shows Adm. Nimitz and Lt. Col. James Roosevelt. Part 4, ammunition and tank destroyers are manufactured; amphibious equipment is tested; and trucks transport food and equipment. Part 5, shows tests of a 240mm howitzer.

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. GENERAL GIRAUD ON THE RICHELIEU, FRENCH BB

Title: General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. GENERAL GIRAUD ON THE RICHELIEU, FRENCH BB

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/79339 View

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 21]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 21]

Part 1, Russian artillery and tanks attack German positions near Voronezh and Russian planes strafe a German truck convoy. Shows German war materiel, a troop train, and German POW's and dead. Part 2 shows German submarines crash diving and the Coast Guard Cutter Campbell dropping depth charges. Part 3 maps the allied drive on Tunisia and shows the British and U.S. inf., artillery, and planes attacking German tanks and fortifications, shooting down a German plane, and entering Gafsa. Nurses load wounded soldiers on airplanes; German and Italian POW's huddle. Includes views of British Gens. Montgomery and Alexander and French Gen. Giraud reviewing Ghurka troops; and of Gens. Eisenhower and Patton watching soldiers dig fox holes.

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. ROOSEVELT INSPECTS U.S. ARMY CAMPS [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. ROOSEVELT INSPECTS U.S. ARMY CAMPS [ETC.]

Part 1, shows Pres. Roosevelt at camps and air fields. Part 2, aircraft carriers are used to transport army planes. Part 3, allied troops bomb and capture land in Tunisia. U.S. and German tanks battle. German planes attack U.S. positions. Army nurses evacuate wounded soldiers. Personages: Gens. Eisenhower and Patton, Gens. Montgomery and Harold Alexander, and Gen. Henri Giraud.

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. OPENS A NEW DRIVE ON JAPANESE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. OPENS A NEW DRIVE ON JAPANESE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC [ETC.]

Part 1, ships bombard the Solomon Islands. Marines land and store supplies. Part 2, shows the training and graduation of a paratroop chaplin. Part 3, the daughter of Princess Juliana (now Queen) of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard is christened, Queen Wilhelmina attending. Part 4, a glider carrying war supplies is towed from Canada to Britain. Part 5, Gen. Giraud is met at the Washington, D.C. airport by Gen. Marshall and Adm. Leahy. He meets President Roosevelt at the White House and lays wreaths at Mt. Vernon and Arlington Cemetery.

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [NOV. 14]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [NOV. 14]

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98825 View

Giraud, Henri, 1879-1949. Henri Honoré Giraud report, 1940.

Title: Henri Honoré Giraud report, 1940.

Relates to causes of the French military defeat in 1940. Report to Philippe Pétain, chief of state of France.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 26]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 26]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 3]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 3]

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98813 View

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 24]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 24]

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/99105 View

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 29]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 29]

On the events leading up to the Casablanca Conference. Includes views of Casablanca; Winston Churchill with Clement Attlee, on a battleship, and visiting troops; Pres. Roosevelt inspecting troops and conferring with Gens. Marshall and Arnold and Adm. King; Gen. de Gaulle decorating French troops; Gens. Eisenhower and Clark and British Adm. Cunningham at French Adm. Darlan's funeral in Algiers; war materiel aboard ship; a convoy; tanks and infantry advancing in Tunisia; an amphibious landing on Guadalcanal; Japanese POW's entering a stockade; Marine Corps Raiders; food being distributed to African refugees; Joseph Stalin; Gen. Patch; Gen. and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek; French Gens. Nogues and Giraud; and bombs being loaded on allied planes.

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Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. 1875 - 2006. Monograph Files Relating to the French Committee for National Liberation

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. 1875 - 2006. Monograph Files Relating to the French Committee for National Liberation

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6850971 View

David Goldin Collection. 1932 - 1952. Audio Recordings of Radio Broadcasts of Speeches, Interviews, Combat Reports, Special Events, Public Affairs, and Entertainment for U.S. Troops. 1932 - 1952. GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Title: David Goldin Collection. 1932 - 1952. Audio Recordings of Radio Broadcasts of Speeches, Interviews, Combat Reports, Special Events, Public Affairs, and Entertainment for U.S. Troops. 1932 - 1952. GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/112142 View

Harry C. Butcher Papers. 1910 - 1959. Photographs

Title: Harry C. Butcher Papers. 1910 - 1959. Photographs

The largest group of photographs in this series consists of images relating to Harry C. Butcher's service as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Naval Aide at the Allied Force Headquarters and Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. The photographs depict Eisenhower's activities during the North African Campaign, the following campaign in Italy, and the planning and execution of the Normandy Invasion. Some of the activities include troop inspections, high-level planning meetings, visits by dignitaries and the press, and captured German and Italian general officers. There are photographs of Eisenhower and major Allied military and political leaders in England and elsewhere on the continent of Europe following the invasion at Normandy until after the surrender of Germany. Individuals depicted include Bernard Law Montgomery, Andrew Browne Cunningham, Henri Giraud, Mark W. Clark, Omar Nelson Bradley, George S. Patton, Arthur William Tedder, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and George VI, King of England. In addition to the military photographs there are images of Butcher's family and friends. A small number of photographs contain images of Abilene, Kansas and Eisenhower's family and childhood friends.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/876185 View

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 29]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 29]

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98777 View

Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959. Henri Pierre Roché Papers, 1886-1971.

Title: Henri Pierre Roché Papers, 1886-1971.

The Henri Pierre Roché Papers consist of manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, notes, clippings, correspondence, printed material, diaries, and financial and legal documentation. The papers were originally acquired from Henri Pierre Roché's widow, Denise Roché. Roché's works, both published and unpublished, are well represented in this group of papers. Material relating to the novels Jules et Jim and Deux anglaises et le continent is present and includes the correspondence and diaries of some of the individuals who later appeared as characters in the novels. For the most part, the correspondence in Series II is between Henri Pierre Roché and his two wives, Germaine Bonnard and Denise (Renard) Roché; however, other correspondents are also represented, such as Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, and Gertrude Stein. Series III contains Roché's daily agendas and diaries (referred to herein as "carnets"), which begin in 1901 and end in 1959, and document various aspects of his personal and professional life. Transcriptions of several carnets, through 1945, commissioned by film director François Truffaut, as well as a photocopy of one carnet, accompany the collection. Roché's interests in art, real estate, and his autobiography are well documented in the Personal and Legal Papers series. The last series contains materials relating to Roché's family. Journals, correspondence, works, financial, legal, and medical records, and printed material document the lives of Roché's mother Clara, his second wife, Denise, and his son Jean-Claude.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes, 2 oversize folders (19.74 linear feet)

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 5]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 5]

On the Casablanca Conference. Personages: Pres. Roosevelt; Winston Churchill; Brazilian Pres. Vargas; Liberian Pres. Barclay; British Adm. Mountbatten; Gens. Wilbur, Patton, Marshall, Clark, Arnold, and Somervell; French Gens. Giraud and de Gaulle; E.R. Stettinius; Adm. King; British Adm. Pound; British Gen. Brooke; and Elliott and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. The President visits Natal, Brazil, tours the Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia, and reviews U.S. troops in Casablanca. A bugler blows taps at the military cemetery in Casablanca.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98745 View

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 18]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 18]

On the death of President Roosevelt. Shows the flag at half-mast at the Capitol, the White House, and Hyde Park. Harry Truman takes the presidential oath. Flashbacks show Roosevelt posing with his Cabinet and with Gen. Marshall; reporting to Congress on the Yalta Conference; at the 1933 inauguration; on a South American tour, at Hyde Park; with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; with his family; at the 1945 inauguration; reviewing troops; with Winston Churchill; asking Congress to declare war on Japan; with Churchill, Giraud, and de Gaulle at the Casablanca Conference; with Stalin at the Teheran Conference; with Adm. Nimitz and Gen. MacArthur; with Churchill and Sec. of State Stettinius at the Quebec Conference; and at the Yalta Conference. Other personages include Alger Hiss, James Byrnes, Joe Martin, Tom Connally, Harold Stassen, Dean Gildersleeve, and Arthur Vandenberg. Includes aerial views of San Francisco.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98974 View

Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. CHINESE ENVOY INSPECTS CANADA'S WAR INDUSTRIES [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. CHINESE ENVOY INSPECTS CANADA'S WAR INDUSTRIES [ETC.]

Part 1, China's Ambassador to Canada sees small arms ammunition and tanks being manufactured. Shows tanks being tested in the snow. Part 2 shows scenes in Ottawa where Princess Juliana of the Netherlands has given birth to a baby. Part 3, President Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca. They ride in a jeep and review allied troops. F.D.R. inspects U.S. troops in Liberia and meets President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. Other personages: Adm. King; Gen. Marshall; Gen. Arnold; British Gen. Alan Brooke; Adm. Alfred Dudley Pound; Gen. Giraud; Gen. de Gaulle.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/38943 View

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 5]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 5]

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98779 View

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 9]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 9]

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98780 View

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. TUNISIAN VICTORY

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. TUNISIAN VICTORY

On the campaign for North Africa. Reel 1 shows planning Churchill visits Roosevelt in Washington. Joint military staffs form plans. Men and materiel are rushed to Brit. and U.S. ports of embarkation. Explains the need for an invasion. Reel 2 shows activities aboard troop ships and amphibious landings at Casablanca and Algiers (Nov. 1942) after French opposition is encountered. U.S. paratroops take Oran. Shows Gens. Eisenhower, Clark, and Giraud at Gibralter prior to the invasion. Reel 3 shows fighting and victory at Algiers. Gens. Eisenhower, Anderson, and Giraud review a joint parade. German films show troops being rushed to Africa, planes bombing and strafing, and Gen. Kesselring in the field. Allied troops enter Tunisia, capture Beja and Medjez-el-Bab, and reach Tunis but withdraw under counterattacks. Tanks battle. Reel 4, winter mud keeps the Allies camped in the mountains. Shows land and air battles. Materiel of war is massed, airfields and roads are built, religious services are held (Gen. Montgomery attends one). Reel 5 shows Christmas activities. Native children and pets are fed. Soldiers sightsee. Shows scenes of the Casablanca Conference. Personages: Roosevelt, Churchill, deGaulle, Giraud, Eisenhower, Alexander, and Cunningham. Churchill visits Gen. Montgomery. Shows Gen. Rommel and German troops behind the Mareth Line. The Allies resume the offensive; Eisenhower's plan is explained. Shows Gens. Doolittle and Spaatz. Reel 6, Adm. Cunningham and Gen. Alexander confer. Troops and artillery fight in the Mareth Battle. New Zealanders capture El Hammas. Shows land, sea, and air operations. Gen. Patton's forces meet British troops, thereby cutting German forces. Reel 7 locates Allied forces along the battle line and shows scenes of battle, particularly in the U.S. capture of Hill 609. Shows land, sea, and air warfare as the final offensive gets underway. Reel 8, planes and tanks reduce German opposition.Shows scenes of thousands of German prisoners, of wrecked equipment, and of citizens greeting Allied troops. Tunisian victory. Credits: [Dir. Roy Boulting, Frank Capra; Comm Bernard Miles, Burgess Meredith]

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/35846 View

Henri Pierre Roché Papers TXRC96-A14., ca. 1886-1971

Title: Henri Pierre Roché Papers ca. 1886-1971

The Roché papers consist of manuscripts of published and unpublished works, diaries (carnets), correspondence, and family papers.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00113/00113-P.html View