Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 30]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 30]

1942

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Part 1, Gen. MacArthur deplanes in Port Moresby, New Guinea, meets Gen. Blamey, tours the area in a jeep, and decorates a newsman. Shows natives carrying supplies for allied troops. Part 2, Army cooks at Camp Grant, Illinois, show how to salvage waste fat. Part 3, miners leave gold mines in Cripple Creek, Colorado, closed by the War Production Board (WPB). Part 4, Canadian women join the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and train. Part 5, the Dionne Quintuplets tour Canada in a war loan drive. Part 6, Russian soldiers and artillery battle the Germans near the Don River; shows wrecked German tanks, dead Germans, and Russians tanks. Part 7, a Guadalcanal hero meets his wife and son in New York City.

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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...

Blamey, Thomas, Sir, 1884-1951

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Thomas Albert Blamey (b. Jan. 24, 1884, New South Wales-d. May 27, 1951) was an Australian general serving in World War I with the 1st Australian Division (Gallipoli, 1915) and on the Western Front. From March 1942 through the end of World War II, he was commander-in-chief of the Australian Military Forces. He signed the Japanese surrender document on behalf of Australia, joining General Douglas MacArthur on the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. He retired in 1946, and in 1950 was promoted to F...