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

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

1941

Part 1, Argentine Pres. Castillo reviews Army and Air Force units in Buenos Aires. Part 2, cadet pilot Joseph Kennedy, Jr. flies a plane at the Squantum (Massachusetts) Naval Air Station. Part 3, Lord Halifax watches a Hudson bomber take off at the Lockheed plant in Burbank, California. Part 4, troops of the 46th Div. march in review in Camp Barkley, Texas.; Sen. Barkley looks on. Army pilot cadets graduate in Maxwell Field, Alabama. Troops of the Marine 1st Division practice an amphibious landing on Onslow Beach, North Carolina as Secretary Knox and Col. T. Roosevelt, Jr. look on. Part 5, Pres, Roosevelt and Gen. Marshall urge extension of the service limit for draftees. Part 6, airplanes attack British positions in Tobruk, Libya. Shows sunken German and Italian ships in the harbor and German and Italian POW's.

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