Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. PACIFIC WAR HEROES DECORATED [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. PACIFIC WAR HEROES DECORATED [ETC.]

1942

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Part 1, servicemen receive decorations at Pearl Harbor. Part 2, timber is felled in Canada. Part 3, Walt Disney draws pictures of his cartoon characters in battle dress. Part 4, barrage balloons are raised, and camouflaged antiaircraft guns are manned in a practice air raid on the Pacific Coast. Part 5, Army dogs are inspected and trained. Part 6, Gen. Stilwell speaks to Chinese troops who are then examined by U.S. doctors and instructed in artillery tactics and small arms fire by Army troops. Wendell Willkie meets Chiang Kai-shek at Chungking and inspects troops with Gens. Stilwell and Chennault.

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