Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 6]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 6]

1942

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Part 1 shows an ice carnival in Madison Square Garden. Part 2, women lifeguards hold a rescue drill in Venice, California. Part 3, Congressman Bishop wears a "Victory Suit" which he designed. Part 4, Secretary of Navy Knox and Justice Roberts, investigators of the Pearl Harbor disaster, pose. Shows Japanese bombs falling, the flaming ruins at Honolulu, the surviving U.S. fleet at sea, and the sunken wreckage of the battleships Utah, Arizona, Oklahoma, and the destroyers Catlin, Downs, and Shaw. U.S. submarines and destroyers attack a Japanese convoy in Macassar Straits. U.S. carrier based planes raid the Marshall Islands. Shows U.S. artillery firing, troops attacking, and Gen. MacArthur in the Philippines. Pres. Roosevelt speaks.

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Knox, Frank, 1874-1944

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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