Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 19]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 19]

1944

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Part 1 shows a curling championship game in Duluth, Minnesota. Part 2 shows war bonds coming off the printing presses and being sold by a mother of twelve in N.Y.C. The liberty ship Carole Lombard is christened and launched in San Pedro, California, as Clark Gable looks on. Part 4, U.S. Marines capture Cape Gloucester off New Britain. Shows the convoy offshore. B-24's bomb Japanese positions and naval guns lay down a barrage as tracer firing Higgins boats drive onto the beach. Marine tank and inf. units advance through the jungle supported by mortar and machine gun fire. Plasma is given the wounded. Shows a smashed Japanese airstrip, wrecked planes, and dead Japanese. Part 5 demonstrates how to save fuel. Part 6 shows a dog show in Gordon, Australia.

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