Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 25]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 25]

1942

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Part 1, Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron's (WAFS) report for training in Newcastle, Delaware. Part 2, Gen. Spaatz decorates U.S. bomber crews in Great Britain. Part 3, vests made by fur industry are tried on by merchant seamen. Part 4, cotton pickers compete in Blytheville, Arkansas. Part 5, U.S. warships bombard Japanese positions in the Solomon Islands; shows Japanese dead and POW's on Guadalcanal. Part 6, Joe Louis and Billy Conn train for a boxing match. Part 7, Army tank destroyer crews train in Camp Hood, Texas. Part 8, Amb. Grew discusses his experience in Japan and urges purchase of war bonds.

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