Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 11]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 11]

1943

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Part 1, gliders are loaded with war material, towed, and landed at an air base in North Carolina. Gen. Arnold inspects a damaged glider. Part 2, U.S. 7th Army troops are cheered by Italians as they enter Palermo. An Italian Gen. surrenders to Gen. Keyes and Italian civilians turn in their guns. British troops battle the Germans and Italians in the streets of Messina. Canadian Army nurses board trucks. Shows Gens. Montgomery, Simmonds, and Patton. Part 3, deep-sea divers and work pumps to raise the sunken ocean liner Normandie in N.Y. harbor. Flashbacks show the Normandie entering N.Y. Harbor and burning.

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Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950

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Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938–1941), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the only U.S. Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only officer to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services. Arnold was also the founder of Project RAND, which evolved into one of the wo...

Simonds, Guy Granville, 1903-1974

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Guy Simonds (b. April 23, 1903, England-d. May 15, 1974, Toronto, Canada), Lieutenant General in the Canadian Army, studied at the Royal Military College of Canada after emigrating to Canada with his family. He was commander of the II Canadian Corps and First Canadian Army during the Second World War, and in 1951 was appointed Chief of the General Staff-the youngest officer in the history of the Canadian Army to be promoted to the rank of general. He retired in 1960. From the descrip...

Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976

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British army officer. From the description of Note of Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454594 ...

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 ...