Records of the Office of Civilian Defense. 1939 - 1945. Motion Picture Films. 1941 - 1943. BABIES' GUARDIANS ON THE ALERT [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of Civilian Defense. 1939 - 1945. Motion Picture Films. 1941 - 1943. BABIES' GUARDIANS ON THE ALERT [ETC.]

1942

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Part 1 (News of the Day), babies ride by bus from a Philadelphia hospital to an air raid shelter. Part 2 (Movietone News), blimp men are trained in free balloons at Moffett Field, California. Part 3 (News of the Day), barrage balloons are raised from a football field. Part 4 (Universal Newsreel), antiaircraft units operate guns, range finders, and searchlights on the California desert. Part 5 (Paramount News) shows antiaircraft gun positions camouflaged as houses and haystacks. Part 6 (Movietone News), Bofors antiaircraft guns are made in an Akron, Ohio, plant and 1,000 pound bombs tested at Aberdeen, Md. Part 7 (News of the Day), bombardiers drop practice bombs at the Midland Army Flying School, Texas. Part 8 (RKO Pathe News), crews are briefed and planes are serviced in England. B-17's take off and bomb Rouen, France. Gen. Ira Eaker is greeted on his return from the raid by Gen. Spaatz. B-17's bomb installations in the Solomons. Part 9 (Movietone News), B-17's bomb Kiska in the Aleutians and Hong Kong. Gen. Chennault briefs pilots. Part 10 (Paramount News), RAF Lancaster bombers strike Eindhoven, Netherlands. Part 11 (Paramount News), Lancasters hit Genoa, Italy, in a night raid. Part 12 (Movietone News), RAF planes bomb the Goodrich rubber plant in Paris. Aerial photograph show bomb damage. Part 13 (Paramount News), B-17's bomb Tripoli harbor.

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