National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized. 1675 - 1958. Motion Picture Films of Italian News. 1940 - 1943. ITALIAN NEWS, NO. 82

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National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized. 1675 - 1958. Motion Picture Films of Italian News. 1940 - 1943. ITALIAN NEWS, NO. 82

1945

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Part 1, shows ruins of buildings and bridges in Italy. A locomotive is unloaded from a ship. Italian troops repair railroad tracks. Shows demolished rail equipment. Part 2, Yugoslav Partisans enter Belgrade; crowds cheer; Tito appears on a balcony. Shows wounded Partisans. Part 3, U.S. planes take off from carriers and bomb Japanese positions on Iwo Jima, A naval rocket barrage is laid down, Marines go ashore in landing barges and advance inland supported by flame-throwing tanks. A crippled plane crashes into the sea; the pilot is rescued by breeches buoy. Japanese POW's are brought aboard a ship. Sec. Forrestal and his party debark on a beach. Wounded Marines are brought to the beach on stretchers.

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Tito, Josip Broz, 1892-1980

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Josip Broz Tito was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II he led the Yugoslav Partisans. Following the establishment of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he served as its prime minister from 2 November 1944 to 29 June 1963 and president from 14 January 1953 until his death. ...

Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...