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

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

1943

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Part 1 shows a tennis match in Sidney, Australia. Part 2, Seabees learn mosquito control measures in Camp Peary, Virginia. Part 3 shows the Amazon River and the Matteo Grosso in Brazil, a Brazilian Cabinet officer, and an expedition to the area with pack and riding mules and Indian porters. Part 4, Thanksgiving turkeys are defeathered. Part 5, carrier-based planes blast Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. B-24s bomb New Guinea. Shows the U.S. Fleet at sea. Marine raiders land on Makin Island with Cols. Carleson and Jimmy Roosevelt. Marines wade ashore at Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. Shows Adm. Halsey at his island headquarters in the jungle, dead Japanese soldiers, and advancing infantry.

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