Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "News of the Day" Newsreels. 1942 - 1942. NEWS OF THE DAY [SEPT. 2]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "News of the Day" Newsreels. 1942 - 1942. NEWS OF THE DAY [SEPT. 2]

1942

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Part 1, the raid on Dieppe: the Fr. coast is subjected to a naval and aerial bombardment, the invasion fleet circles, a smoke screen is laid, a Brit. plane falls into the sea, the pilot is rescued, LCT's go ashore, and Commandos, including many, wounded, debark in England. Part 2, Waves and Wacs take the oath of allegiance. Shows Col. Hobby and a Russ. girl sniper. Part 3 shows huge crowds and screen notables including Greer Garson, at a large war bond rally. Part 4, Winston Churchill reviews Brit. troops in Egypt and confers with Gen. Smuts.

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Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995

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Oveta Culp Hobby (January 19, 1905 – August 16, 1995) was the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first director of the Women's Army Corps, and a chairperson of the board of the Houston Post. Hobby went to Washington, D.C., in 1941 to head the newly formed women's division of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations. At the request of Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall she drafted plans for the formation of a women's auxiliary to the male army, ...

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30 November 1874. He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before joining the Army in 1895 and serving in India and Sudan. After leaving the Army in 1899, he worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post and the following year was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Oldham. In 1904, Churchill decided to join the Liberal Party, and in 1906, was elected Liberal MP f...

Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950

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South African statesman. From the description of Typed letter signed : to Sir Sydney Cockerell, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665092 Jan Christiaan Smuts was a guerilla commander in the Boer War, led forces against the German in World War I, and commanded South African forces in World War II. He was Prime Minister of South Africa, 1919-1924 and 1939-1948, and helped draft the United Nations charter. From the description of Walt Whitman : a study in th...