Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 21]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 21]

1942

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Part 1, Marshal Petain and Adm. Darlan board the bomb-damaged battleship Dunkerque and inspect the French fleet at Toulon. French Amb. Henri-Haye arrives at the Department of State in Washington, DC, to hear of the U.S. break with Vichy. Shows cyclists in the streets of Paris. Milk trucks in Seattle are pulled by horses during a gasoline shortage. Part 2, Adm. Nimitz decorates Navy heroes of the Pearl Harbor attack. Army personnel are decorated at Hickam Field. Part 3 shows ersatz foods developed at a college in Lubbock, Texas. Part 4, Lord Halifax inspects Royal Air Force (RAF) cadets in Austin, Texas. Part 5, baseball player Monty Stratton pitches again after losing a leg in a hunting accident. Part 6 shows ruins in Rangood, Burma, after a Japanese bombing. "Flying Tigers" take off in P-40 planes and shoot down a raiding Japanese plane. Part 7, quadruplets join the Army in Fargo, North Dakota.

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Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966

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Chester William Nimitz, Sr. (/ˈnɪmɪts/; February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. Nimitz was the leading US Navy authority on submarines. Qualified in submarines during his early years, he later oversaw the conversion of these vessels' propu...

Darlan, François, 1881-1942

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Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959

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Pétain, Philippe, 1856-1951

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Marshal and chief of state of France. From the description of Philippe Pétain papers, 1944-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866964 French General of the First World War. From the description of Letter, 1918. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41418433 French minister of war, diplomat, and army officer. From the description of Address of Philippe Pétain, 1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450037 ...