Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 8]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 8]

1943

Part 1 shows tennis matches at Forest Hills, N.Y. Personages: Francis Segura, John Kramer, and Helen Jacobs. Part 2, members of a junior employment service do odd jobs in Hammond, Indiana. Part 3, film celebrities entrain for a war bond tour. Bob Hope talks to newsmen. Part 4 shows the wreckage of a train derailed in Philadelphia. Priests perform last rites. A survivor tells her story. Part 5, Gens. Stilwell and Chennault watch coolies construct an airfield in China. Part 6, Gen. MacArthur tours the front lines in New Guinea and confers with British Gen. Blamey. B-24's and B-17's bomb the Japanese base of Lae. Part 7, Winston Churchill buys a war bond from Sec. of Treas. Morgenthau.

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