Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 27]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 27]

1945

Part 1, football: Purdue vs. Ohio State. Part 2, Navy films show the U.S. submarine Tirante operating in Japanese waters and raiding in Nagasaki Bay. Sec. Forrestal presents a citation to the Tirante's commander and crew as Adm. Halsey looks on. Part 3, Francis Biddle of the U.S., and Russian, British, and French representatives arrive in Berlin for war crimes trials. A U.S. military court in Dachau, Germany, tries Nazi Franz Strasser for the murder of U.S. fliers; testimony is given.

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