Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 16]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 16]

1943

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98748

Part 1, Mrs. F.D.Roosevelt christens a coal barge and receives an Indian war bonnet in Camden, Maine. Part 2 shows Gens. Spaatz and Doolittle at a North African air base. Part 3 shows how to detect counterfeit money. Includes views of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., and the Secret Service laboratories. Part 4 shows a U.S. submarine and its crew. Part 5, a young Army veteran joins the American Legion in Pueblo, Colorado. Part 6 shows the Coast Guard base in Baltimore and its pet cat. Part 7 shows the printing of ration books and flashbacks to 1917 breadlines and food riots. OPA Administrator Brown speaks. Part 8, soldiers in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, learn to build and detect booby traps.

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Spaatz, Carl, 1891-1974

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Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993

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James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his daring raids on Japan during World War II. He also made early coast-to-coast flights, won many flying races, and helped develop instrument flying. Born in Alameda, California, Doolittle studied as an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1922. He also earned a doctorate in aero...