Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels. 1943 - 1945. WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 184 [NOV. 13]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels. 1943 - 1945. WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 184 [NOV. 13]

1944

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Part 1, Brit. women manufacture rocket projectiles and shells: tubes are filled with cordite, rocket motors tested, shells shaved and measured, TNT packed in the shells, fuses screwed on, and shells wheeled from the factory. Part 2, rockets are placed in Brit. Typhoon fighters; a Ger. town is bombed. Part 3, Viscount Gort lands in Palestine, reviews an honor guard, drives through the streets, greets local personages, and reviews Brit. troops. Part 4, U.S. troops and tanks land on Dutch New Guinea. Wrecked Japanese planes are examined and parts from U.S. planes salvaged. Supplies are dropped by parachute. Gen. MacArthur speaks.

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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...

Gort, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Viscount, 1886-1946

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