Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [NOV. 24]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [NOV. 24]

1942

Part 1, football: Notre Dame vs. Northwestern. Part 2, Adm. King boards the cruiser Boise. Part 3, the U.S. Military Academy donates old guns to a scrap metal drive. Tin cans saved by Navy cooks and housewives are melted into ingots. Part 4, on the British campaign in N. Africa. Shows German and Italian POW's in Libya, British General Alexander reviewing Fr. troops, British General Montgomery decorating New Zealand troops, allied artillery firing and infantry and tanks advancing, Greek Army units with the British 7th Army, B-25's bombing Ger. positions, and the downing of a German plane. Part 5, Loretta Young discusses women's role in the war and urges the purchase of war bonds.

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