Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 9]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 9]

1942

Part 1, fifteen UN heroes ride in a motorcade through New York City. Part 2, Donald Nelson and British Min. Lyttelton tour the Ford aircraft plant, meet Henry and Edsel Ford and Charles Lindbergh, and inspect the Chrysler tank arsenal. Lyttelton speaks. Part 3 shows a roller skating review in New York City. Part 4, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) comdr. Hobby poses. WAAC officer candidates take exams in Baltimore. Part 5, horse drawn cabs are used in Boston during a gas and rubber shortage. Part 6, commuters bicycle to a railroad station in Concord, Massachusetts. Part 7, recruits enlist in the Navy at various cities. Memorial services are held in Hawaii for Pearl Harbor dead. Adm. Hepburn, in Washington, D.C., announces the U.S. naval victory at Midway. Shows Adm. Nimitz.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6514481

National Archives at College Park

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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

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...

Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995

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Oveta Culp Hobby (January 19, 1905 – August 16, 1995) was the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first director of the Women's Army Corps, and a chairperson of the board of the Houston Post. Hobby went to Washington, D.C., in 1941 to head the newly formed women's division of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations. At the request of Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall she drafted plans for the formation of a women's auxiliary to the male army, ...

Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943

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Edsel Ford's interests beyond automobiles and the automobile industry were broad and varied. He was president of the Arts Commission of the Detroit Institute of Arts, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and a trustee for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. He was a member of the Isle Royal National Park Commission, chairman of the board of the Detroit University School, and a director of the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit. He was active in Ford Motor Company educatio...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Hepburn, Arthur J. (Arthur Japy), 1877-1964

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Arthur Japy Hepburn was born October 15, 1877, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He commanded the Navy's Destroyers Battle Force from June 1934 to April 1935. Hepburn died on May 31, 1964. From the description of Hepburn, Arthur J. (Arthur Japy), 1877-1964 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10614485 ...