Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 13]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 13]

1942

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Part 1 shows ice skaters on the Lincoln Memorial pool in Washington, DC. Part 2 shows sailor Bob Feller at the Norfolk Naval Training Station. Part 3 firemen battle a fire on a pier in New York City in subzero weather. Part 4 Colin Kelly's wife and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson attend a Red Cross dinner. Part 5, the wreckage of a Japanese plane is recovered from Pearl Harbors. Part 6, boxer Joe Louis takes his Army physical exam in Ft. Jay, New York. Shows flashbacks in his career. Part 7, war bonds are sold in Atlanta and New York City theaters. Part 8, British Commandos raid Vaagso, Norway, at night, blow up an ammunition dump, set fire to German barracks, fight Germans in the streets, and debark with German POWs.

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