Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. War Films. 1942 - 1945. FIREPOWER

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. War Films. 1942 - 1945. FIREPOWER

1943

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/36976

On the need for ammunition and guns. Troops board transports and supplies are loaded. Shows Gens. Campbell and Somervell, Under-Sec. of War Patterson, Adm. Blandy, and Sec. of the Navy Forrestal. Planes drop supplies to Chetniks in Yugoslavia. Shows brief peacetime scenes in Norway. Poland, Greece, and especially, Czechoslovakia. Chinese troops are shown and Russian troops parade in Red Square. Shows mining, lumbering. ammunition production, and the firing of various types of artillery.

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...

Somervell, Brehon Burke, 1892-1955

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Patterson, Robert Porter, 1891-1952

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Lawyer, jurist, and U.S. secretary of war. From the description of Papers of Robert Porter Patterson, 1940-1951 (bulk 1940-1947). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74984701 ...

Blandy, William H. P. (William Henry Purnell), 1890-1954

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Campbell, Levin Hicks, 1886-1976

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Levin Hicks Campbell was a United States (U.S.) Army officer. He was a lieutenant in the coast artillery; captain to lieutenant general in the Ordnance Department (Dept.) and Chief of Ordnance from 1942 to 1946. From the description of The Levin Hicks Campbell papers, 1886-1967. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 50398425 Levin Hicks Campbell (1886-1976) was born in Washington, DC. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1909 and resigned from the Navy to...