Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 20]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 20]

1944

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Part 1, troops in Italy evacuate supplies from a warehouse set afire by German planes and load them onto freight cars. Part 2, German POW's at Anzio are marched to the rear carrying their wounded. Part 3 shows Gens. Eisenhower, Montgomery, and Tedder at invasion headquarters in England. Weapons and materiel arrive at British ports for the European invasion. Part 4, Negro WACS tend servicemen in Halloran Gen. Hospital. Part 5, Negro paratroops practice jumps at Fort Benning, Georgia. Part 6, Marines, bivouaced on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, give water to natives, drink Japanese beer, and inspect battle trophies. Shows Japanese dead and a burning Japanese pillbox. Col. Carleson and Adm. Nimitz inspect the battle area. Marine skirmishers clean out Japanese snipers. Part 7 shows a wedding in Boston, Massachusetts.

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