Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 6]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 6]

1945

Part 1, Joe E. Brown, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Margaret O'Brien, and George Murphy pose with Harry Truman and President Roosevelt, and visit Walter Reed Hospital. Mrs. Roosevelt urges support for the March of Dimes at the President's birthday ball. Part 2, shows the ruins of a nursery home which burned in Auburn, Maine. Part 3, rockets are launched from airplanes, warships, and trucks. Adm. Hussey discusses their production. Part 4, shows the 6th Army amphibious landing on Lingayen Gulf, Luzon (Philippine Islands) as Gens. MacArthur and Krueger look on. Gen. MacArthur comes ashore. Artillery fires and tanks precede advancing troops. Wounded are carried to the rear. Ammunition is distributed to Filipino guerrillas. Filipinos greet the troops.

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