Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 19]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 19]

1945

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Part 1, Gen. Wainwright rides in a motorcade in N.Y.C. and is welcomed by Mayor La Guardia. Part 2, President Truman looks on as Basil O'Connor receives a check for the "March of Dimes." Part 3, Vidkun Quisling is sentenced by a court in Oslo, Norway. Part 4, actress Betty Hutton is wed in Chicago, Ill. Part 5, Japanese surrender documents are delivered to the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. Japanese Gen. Takeo-imai deplanes and surrenders to Chinese Nationalists in Chinkiang, China. U.S. prisoners are liberated from Nissen No. 2 and Omori prison camps. Adm. Matsubara boards the destroyer Bagley to surrender Marcus Island. Gen. Sadae-Inoue, aboard the cruiser Portland surrenders Truk.

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

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Hutton, Betty

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Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953

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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (b. August 23, 1883, Walla Walla, WA–d. September 2, 1953, San Antonio, TX) was a career American army officer and the Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II. The son of Army officer during Spanish-American War Robert Powell Page Wainwright and grandson of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright II, Lieutenant in Civil War, he attended West Point. Wainwright was promoted to major during World War I....

Quisling, Vidkun, 1887-1945

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