Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 29]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 29]

1945

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Part 1, antiaircraft and aerial guns are test fired on radio controlled target planes over Wright Field, Ohio. Part 2, Chiang Kai-shek greets his wife as she deplanes in China from a C-54, and gives a bouquet for the crew of the U.S. plane. Gen. Kell decorates Joe Louis at Fort Hamilton, New York. Actress Shirley Temple is wed in Hollywood. Part 3, firemen battle the burning wreckage of two Navy planes which collided and crashed in Miami's Dallas Park. Part 4, British troops battle snipers in Hong Kong and round up Japanese prisoners at the International Gate. U.S. troops are released and their Japanese guards imprisoned at a camp in Mukden, Manchuria. Gen. Doolittle flies over the ruins of Tokyo. Newsmen interview "Tokyo Rose." Japanese civilians dig in the ruins of the city.

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