Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. BOMBER MISSION IN VISIT TO CHILE [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. BOMBER MISSION IN VISIT TO CHILE [ETC.]

1944

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Part 1, Gen. George Brett arrives at Santiago, decorates Chilean soldiers, and attends a military show. Part 2, shows the funeral of Al Smith, with flashbacks of him as Gov. of New York in the 1920's and campaigning for the presidency in 1928. Shows Mrs. Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman. Part 3, a victory garden operated by the Foreign Economic Administration and the Army Service Forces produces watermelons for soldiers in the Pacific. Part 4, Princess Martha visits the Norwegian Naval Anti-Submarine School in New York. Part 5, British planes bomb Le Havre and Calais and guns shell Calais from England.

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