Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 9]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 9]

1945

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98955

Part 1, snow and a cold wave hampers communication and traffic in New York and the New England states. Coast Guard cutters clear paths through the ice off Long Island. Shows Niagara Falls. Part 2, urges letterwriters to use V-mail. Part 3, former U.S. prisoners of war deplane in N.Y.C.'s LaGuardia Field and tell of their experiences in Japanese and German prisoner of war camps. Part 4, shows the B-29 assembly lines in Vancouver, B.C., and Marietta, Georgia. Assembled B-29 bombers take off. Part 5, the 1st Calvary and 37th Inf. liberate Manilla. Gen. MacArthur enters. Flashbacks show the Guadalcanal campaign.

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