Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Army - Navy Screen Magazine. 1943 - 1958. ARMY-NAVY SCREEN MAGAZINE, NO. 16

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Army - Navy Screen Magazine. 1943 - 1958. ARMY-NAVY SCREEN MAGAZINE, NO. 16

1943

Reel 1, Women Air Service Pilots (WASPs) train in Link trainers, attend classes, drill, fly, receive wings from Jacqueline Cochran, and report to the Air Transport Command. U.S. soldiers in India ride in horse-drawn carriages, shop, watch a snake charmer, and attend a horse race. Reel 2, naval guns bombard Salerno as an injured sailor is carried from his station. Troops land and advance past wreckage. A road bed is repaired; German installations are bombed. Shows street fighting in Naples, and Gens. Clark and Montgomery. Italian civilians cheer and receive food.

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Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976

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British army officer. From the description of Note of Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454594 ...

Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

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Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) was born in Madison Barracks, New York. After he graduated from West Point in 1917, he commissioned in the infantry. During World War I, he became wounded in combat while commanding a battalion in France. He served with the War Department General Staff from 1921 to 1924. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College two years later. Between 1940 and 1942, he served at General Headquarters and then Army Ground Forces. He rose ...