Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. NEW DEVICES FOR CLEARING PATHS IN MINE FIELDS [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. NEW DEVICES FOR CLEARING PATHS IN MINE FIELDS [ETC.]

1946

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Part 1, mine detonators are tested. Part 2, Joe Louis bowls and Billy Conn does road and gym work, as the men train for their boxing match. Part 3, radar guides a ferry across foggy Puget Sound. Part 4, the carrier Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia arrive at Rio de Janeiro for the inauguration of Pres. Dutra. Shows ceremonies in congress and scenes of La Guardia in the city and congratulating Dutra. Part 5 shows sponge fishing off Florida and market scenes at Tarpon Springs. Part 6, displaced persons are greeted on their return to Czechoslovakia. The Army transports and distributes UNRRA supplies.

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