Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 18]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 18]

1942

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Part 1, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps' (WAAC) march, study, and service jeeps at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa. Part 2 shows the "Flying Tigers" on an airfield in China as they are incorporated into the U.S. Air Force. Personages: Gen. Chennault and Col. Clark. Transport planes are loaded and unloaded. Part 3 shows the Swedish liner Gripsholm at Rio de Janeiro with U.S. internees from Japan, among them Amb. Grew. Part 4 shows an oil pipeline from Texas to Illinois under construction. Part 5 shows the wreckage of a Navy blimp in a San Francisco suburb. Part 6 shows Navy blimp under construction in Akron, Ohio. Part 7, the Marine invasion of the Solomon Islands is announced; Shows warships firing and Marines practicing beach landings and parachute jumps. Includes Adm. Byrd.

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Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958

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Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958), sometimes known as Old Leatherface, was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Republic of China Air Force in World War II. Chennault was a fierce advocate of "pursuit" or fighter-interceptor aircraft during the 1930s when the United States Army Air Corps was focused primarily on high-altitude bombardment. Chennault retired from the United States Army in 1937, and went to work as an av...

Byrd, Richard Evelyn Jr., 1888-1957

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