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

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

1944

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Part 1, football: Navy vs. Duke; Pittsburgh vs. Army. Part 2, shows the Ploesti oil fields being bombed by planes. Romanians fighting the resulting fires, and King Michael inspecting the damage. Part 3, on war in the Pacific. Shows B-29's in flight, Gen. MacArthur conferring with Adm. Halsey. Marines fighting the Japanese on Palau Island and cameraman Damlen Parer filming the action. Chinese troops advancing against the Japanese in China, the U.S. 6th Army making an amphibious landing on Morota Island, and Gen. MacArthur going ashore.

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