Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. AIR ASSAULT TACTICS [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. AIR ASSAULT TACTICS [ETC.]

1945

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Part 1 shows "attacks" by airborne troops using gliders and parachutes in a training maneuver. Part 2 shows land, sea, and air tests of rockets by the Navy. Part 3 shows Gen. Stilwell relaxing at home in California and sitting at his desk in Washington, D.C. Part 4 shows the manufacture of B-29 bombers, a fuel depot in China, and a bombing of Thailand. Part 5, airplanes take off and land on an aircraft carrier. One plane crashes. Part 6 shows Gens. Krueger and MacArthur watching a sea bombardment of Luzon. The 6th Army fights on the island.

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Krueger, Walter, 1881-1967

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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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