Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 13]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 13]

1945

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Part 1, graduates of West Point and Annapolis receive their diplomas. Personages: Navy Sec. Forrestal and Gens. Bradley and Clark. Part 2, U.S. Marines advance on Okinawa. A Marine tank is destroyed. Okinawans get food and medical aid. Part 3, wounded troops are hoisted across a destroyed bridge on Luzon. Part 4, British army units parade through Oslo. The German commander surrenders. Vidkun Quisling is tried for treason; flashbacks show him in a German uniform. Shows Heinrich Himmler's body after suicide. Belsen concentration camp survivors are deloused, the camp guards pose, and flame throwing tanks destroy the buildings. Part 5, Gen. Patton deplanes in Boston, rides in a, motorcade, and speaks in the Hatch Memorial Shell.

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...

Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981

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Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...

Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945

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Reichsführer SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei, 1934-1945. From the description of Heinrich Himmler papers, 1914-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866944 ...

Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

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Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) was born in Madison Barracks, New York. After he graduated from West Point in 1917, he commissioned in the infantry. During World War I, he became wounded in combat while commanding a battalion in France. He served with the War Department General Staff from 1921 to 1924. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College two years later. Between 1940 and 1942, he served at General Headquarters and then Army Ground Forces. He rose ...

Quisling, Vidkun, 1887-1945

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