Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 6]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 6]

1945

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Part 1, an FRI jet plane is tested over Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Navy. A "Vampire" jet plane is tested by the RAF in Great Britain. Part 2, Japanese POW's are rounded up, searched, and put to work constructing prison camps in Hong Kong. Part 3, the Japanese flag comes down and the U.S. flag goes up as U.S. troops march into Pyongchong, Korea, amid the cheers of the people. Part 4 shows Mayor LaGuardia and Navy Sec. Forrestal at a photographers' exhibit in Radio City, N.Y. Part 5, former U.S. Amb. to Argentina, Spruille Braden, deplanes in Washington, D.C., and talks on conditions in Argentina. Crowds demonstrate and Army units march in review in Buenos Aires. Part 6, football: Notre Dame vs. Illinois.

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