Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 24]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 24]

1944

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Part 1, shows the massing of the colors at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Adm. Ernest King speaks. Part 2, Air Force aces John Godfrey and Don Gentile are shown on the steps of the Pentagon Building in Washington, D.C. and being welcomed home by Piqua, Ohio, and Woonsocket, R.I. Part 3, Italian POW's in Camp Sutton, N.C., are sworn in as Italian Service Unit Engineers. Part 4, troops of a U.S. glider unit construct barracks of glider crates in England. Part 5, allied artillery shells the German Gustav Line in Italy. Part 6, Gen. Eisenhower inspects airfields in England. 9th Air Force B-26's and RAF planes bomb and strafe German installations in Europe. Part 7 explains how to raise a Victory Garden.

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