Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 9]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 9]

1944

Part 1 shows Presidential candidate Dewey with GOP Chm. Brownell aboard a train. Dewey speaks from the train's rear platform in Indiana, and before the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Part 2, the liberty ship Benjamin Warner is christened and launched in Richmond, California. Part 3, rescue workers dig in the wreckage of a Barnum and Bailey circus tent after a fire in Hartford, Conn. Part 4, jeeps, tanks, and skirmishers advance near Cherbourg and machine gunners and grenadiers battle in the ruins of the city. Shows captured German troops with their Russian wives, dead Germans, Gen. von Schleiben and Adm. Hennecke, and liberated Russian prisoners. Civilians dance in the streets. U.S. troops give the citizens a tricolor.

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