Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 22]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 22]

1943

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Part 1, football: Purdue vs. Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Part 2, a liberty ship, given by the U.S. to China, is christened Chunk Shan in San Francisco. Part 3, Boy Scouts and servicemen help harvest potatoes in Maine. Part 4 shows a fire at the Norfolk Naval Air Station. Rescue workers bring out the dead and injured on stretchers. Part 5, a British convoy in the straits of Messina drives off German dive bombers with antiaircraft fire and lands troops and tanks by invasion barge at Reggio del Calabria. Part 6, captured Italian films show fires and explosions in Rome after a U.S. bombing. Part 7, Italian crowds cheer Marshal Badoglio's announcement of Mussolini's ouster and break with Germany. Part 8, Italian naval officers board a British battleship near Malta to surrender the Italian fleet to Adm. Cunningham and Gen. Eisenhower. Part 9, the U.S. 5th Army troops embark on transports in North Africa. Shows the convoy at sea off Salerno. Troops land on the Salerno beach under fire, wounded are evacuated, Gen. Clark surveys the front, and artillery fires. Shows wrecked and burning German equipment.

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