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

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

1944

Part 1, football: Illinois vs. Ohio State. Part 2, on war bonds. WAVES parade in N.Y.C. People buy war bonds in Times Square. Harry Truman and Henry A. Wallace buy bonds from Sec. of the Treasury Morgenthau. President Roosevelt urges Americans to buy bonds. Part 3, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Gen. de Gaulle review a parade in Paris. Churchill lays a wreath on the tomb of French is Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe. Part 4, Gen. Stilwell, relieved of his command in China, poses at his home in Carmel, California. A flashback shows him decorating Chiang Kai-shek. Part 5, Filipino guerrillas join U.S. units in the battle for Leyte as they enter Carigara. Gen. MacArthur watches U.S. fighter planes take over an airfield in Tacloban. U.S. warships shoot down Japanese planes off Leyte. B-29 planes bomb Formosa.

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