Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 17]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 17]

1942

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Part 1 ordnance troops train at Aberdeen, Maryland. Planes practice bombing with non-explosive bombs. Part 2, the light cruiser Juneau is commissioned. Shows the Kennedy and Sullivan brothers among its crew. The destroyers Buckner and Girard are launched. Part 3, Winston Churchill broadcasts the fall of Singapore as Anthony Eden looks on. Flashbacks show Australian troops disembarking in Singapore, artillery firing, Japanese troops marching through the streets, and the ruins after Japanese air raids. Part 4, men in the 20-44 age group register for the draft. Part 5, basketball: Notre Dame vs. New York University. Part 6, a U.S. carrier task force raids Japanese installations in the Marshall Islands. Naval guns bombard Wotje. An attacking Japanese plane is shot down. Shows Adm. Halsey.

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