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

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

1942

Part 1, tankers burn in the Caribbean Sea after being torpedoed by a German submarine. Planes take off in search of the submarines. Part 2, Pres. Roosevelt delivers a message to Congress. Part 3, shows the wreckage of two trains which collided in Granby, Missouri. Part 4, women work in English steel mills. Part 5, an old tire is retreaded in Seattle. Part 6, Negro air cadets of the 99th Fighter Squadron graduate at Tuskeegee Institute, Alabama. Part 7 Gen. Marshall announces the re-organization of the Army into three branches. Shows Gens. Arnold, McNair, and Somervell. Part 8, a Boston warehouse burns. Part 9, a daredevil performs in Brooklyn, New York.

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Somervell, Brehon Burke, 1892-1955

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Brehon B. Somervell was a U.S. Army officer, who served as director of construction division for the Quartermaster Department from 1940-1941, and G-4 of the War Department General Staff from 1941-1942. He retired from the military in 1946 and died in 1955. From the description of Brehon Burke Somervell photograph collection. 1910-1975. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 48072741 Brehon Burke Somervell (b. May 9, 1892, Little Rock, Ak.-d. Feb. 13, 1955), Gener...