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

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

1944

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Part 1, Eric Johnston deplanes in Washington, D.C., and speaks on his tour of Russia. Part 2, shows seals, llamas, and tiger triplets with a Bronx zookeeper's wife. Part 3, Gov. Kerr delivers the key-note address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Part 4, on the allied advance in Normandy. Troops fight in hedgerows. British tanks capture Caen. Inf. and motorized equipment advance through mud and rain. Gen. Bradley is visited by Gen. Eisenhower and pulls a lanyard setting off a 4th of July artillery barrage. French civilians cheer U.S. troops and give them wine. Part 5, is a trailer on fuel for winter.

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