Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 23]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 23]

1944

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Part 1, Presidential candidate Dewey speaks in St. Louis, Missouri. Part 2, shows a performance of the Ice Capades in Philadelphia. Personages include Donna Atwood. Part 3, President Roosevelt opens the National War Fund drive. Part 4, on war in the Pacific. Adm. Halsey looks at maps. Carrier based airplanes attack Philippine bases, Japanese ships, and Japanese aircraft. Marines capture Japanese landing barges. Captured Japanese film shows Japanese soldiers and airmen training and Japanese infantry launching suicide attacks. Shows huge piles of U.S. war material on a Pacific island. Gen. MacArthur speaks.

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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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Halsey, William Frederick, 1882-1959

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