Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 25]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [AUG. 25]

1945

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Part 1, Londoners celebrate the end of the war by taking bus trips out of the city. Part 2, Gen. MacArthur alights from an auto in Manila. A flashback shows Gen. Wainwright. Japanese newspapers announce their defeat. Shows the Japanese Cabinet. Japanese citizens bow before Emperor Hirohito. Part 3 describes radar and its use during World War II. Includes views of the Panama Canal Zone, antiaircraft batteries, icebergs, and airplanes.

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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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