Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. PLANES ATTACK JAPAN [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. PLANES ATTACK JAPAN [ETC.]

1944

Part 1, B-29's of the 20th Air Force fly from India to bases in China where landing strips are built. Part 2, the 5th Army advances toward and fights in Rome. Huge crowds greet troops advancing through the city. Pope Pius XII addresses a crowd of 250,000 in Vatican City. Shows Gens. Mark Clark, Alfred Gruenther, Lucian Truscott, and Geoffrey Keys and French Gen. Juin.

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National Archives at College Park

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Truscott, Lucian King, 1895-1965

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General Lucian King Truscott Jr. (January 9, 1895 – September 12, 1965) was a highly decorated senior United States Army officer, who saw distinguished active service during World War II. Between 1943–45, he successively commanded the 3rd Infantry Division, VI Corps, Fifteenth Army and Fifth Army. He was, along with Alexander Patch, among the few U.S. Army officers to command a division, a corps, and a field army on active service during the war. His Distinguished Service Cross citation reads...

Gruenther, Alfred M. (Alfred Maximilian), 1899-1983

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Alfred Maximilian Gruenther (1899-1983) was a military officer, educator, bridge expert, and author. Nicknamed "the Brain" by colleagues, Gruenther was respected worldwide for his extraordinary analytical and strategic skills as a staff officer and soldier-diplomat. Gruenther's career of nearly forty years in the U.S. Army reached a pinnacle in 1951, when he was named chief of staff at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters and became, at fifty-three years of age, the youngest fo...

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 ...

Keyes, Geoffrey, 1888-1967

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Keyes, Geoffrey (1888-1967) was born in Fort Bayard, New Mexico. He received his commission in the cavalry from West Point in 1913, and graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1926 and the Ecole Superieure de Guerre in Paris in 1933. He was head of the tactics department at the Cavalry School from 1933 to 1936, and graduated from the Army War College in 1937. He was executive officer of 13th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Brigade in 1938 and 1939, and served as chief of the supply and trans...

Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958

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Eugenio Pacelli. From the description of Autograph signature as Secretary of State, to a typed letter : addressed to Belle Greene, on behalf of Pope Pius XI, 1937 Dec. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617598 ...