Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 31]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 31]

1942

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Part 1 shows a USO lounge in New York City's Penn. Station. Personages: David Rockefeller and Mayor LaGuardia. Part 2, ski troops train in Mt. Ranier National Park. Part 3, Mayor LaGuardia participates in an air raid drill in Manhattan. Part 4, Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers take off from England and bomb targets in France. Part 5, British fighter planes take off from Russian airfields near Leningrad. Kronstadt's coastal guns shell German coastal positions. Part 6 shows a British convoy, including the battleship Duke of York, at sea in a winter gale. Part 7, shows former athletes training at the U.S. Naval Academy. Part 8, girls ski in North Conway, New Hampshire. Part 9 shows wreckage in Sandt's Eddy, Pennsylvania, after a dynamite explosion. Part 10, shows snow-covered Washington, D. C. Part 11, an officer is thrown from his jeep into the river while crossing a cable in maneuvers of the 629 Tank Destroyer Unit at Ft. Meade, Maryland.

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Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960

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La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

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