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

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

1944

Part 1, Allied soldiers advance in France. Gen. Eisenhower visits Great Britain's 2nd Army. Shows Gen. Patton. German soldiers surrender. A German jet plane is hit and its pilot bails out. Machine gun and mortar fire pours into a German held town. Part 2, convalescent soldiers in Camp Upton, New York, repair toys and deliver them to polio victims in St. Charles Hospital, Long Island. Part 3, people of Athens, Greece, watch UNRRA food shipments arrive. Personages include Greek premier Papandreow, British Gen. Scobie, and Winston Churchill. Part 4, shows Lowry Air Force Base. Colorado, views of New York City's skyline, Ebbetts Field, and Coney Island. Brooklynites at Lowry hold a party.

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