Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 28]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 28]

1943

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Part 1, allied planes bomb Japanese positions on New Guinea. Part 2, mules carry lend-lease supplies through Tibet to China. Part 3 shows U.S. troops in India. Part 4, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek reviews a parade in Chungking. Part 5 shows the allied amphibious invasion of Sicily. Includes views of allied troops and tanks advancing through Palermo, Licata, and Campobello; troops clearing mine fields; allied warships shelling Axis positions; allied planes taking off and landing on seized airfields; German and Italian POW's, wrecked and captured tanks and planes, and the dead. Gen. Patton poses and leaves an amphibious craft.

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Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975

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Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...