Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Special Film Reports. 1944 - 1945. AMMO. EXPLOSIONS CAUSE GREAT FIRE AND DAMAGE AT BOMBAY [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Special Film Reports. 1944 - 1945. AMMO. EXPLOSIONS CAUSE GREAT FIRE AND DAMAGE AT BOMBAY [ETC.]

1944

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Part 1 shows fires and explosions. Troops and civilians abandon the burning areas. Shows damage to ships and the city and bodies of victims. Part 2, Gen. Patton watches training in northern Ireland. Troops demonstrate hand-to-hand tactics and cross a stream in a make shift raft. Part 3, Gen. K.B. Wolfe greets the first B-29 crew in India. Part 4. U.S. soldiers train Chinese troops to use bayonets, mortars, machine guns, and radios. Part 5 (Reel 2), Brit. troops mop up in rubbled Cassino, It. (Mar. 26). Part 6, troops land and advance unopposed at Hollandia, New Guinea, after a nighttime naval barrage (Apr. 22). Shows MacArthur aboard the Nashville and on shore.

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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...

Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...

Wolfe, Kenneth Bonner, 1896-1971

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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Kenneth B. Wolfe : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131422 Kenneth Bonner Wolfe (b. Aug. 12, 1896, Denver, Co.-d. Sept. 20, 1971), Lieutenant General in the U.S. Air Force, enlisted as a flying cadet in the aviation section of the Signal Corps and was commissioned in 1918. He was chief of the production engineering section at Wright Field which was responsible ...