Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 14]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 14]

1945

Part 1 describes and shows new rocket units in use on the western war front. Part 2, Lord Halifax, Stettinius, Gromyko, and Wei Tao-ming meet in Washington, D.C., to plan for the San Francisco conference Asst. Sec. of State MacLeish discusses the Conference. Shows the State Department cable room and Alger Hiss. Part 3, Allied forces, led by tanks, advance in Germany. Shows Gen. Patton. German soldiers surrender. British forces attack and capture Mandalay, Burma. Japanese Premier Tojo poses with other war lords. Shows Japanese prisoners of war. Adm. Mitscher and the 10th Army launch an amphibious invasion of Okinawa under cover of a rocket and naval bombardment. Ernie Pyle goes ashore with troops. Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nimitz, confer. B-29 bombers take off.

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