Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 2]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 2]

1946

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/99047

Part 1, servicemen discharged in Seattle enplane in C-97 transport planes for Chicago. Part 2, Pres. Truman lights a tree on the White House lawn and issues a Christmas proclamation. Part 3, shows Gen. Patton's grave. Flashbacks show tanks advancing and Patton with Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery during World War II. Part 4, Swedish King Gustavus awards Nobel prizes to Prof. Wolfgang Paul; Drs. Fleming, Chain, and Florey; Gabriela Mistral of Chile; and Cordell Hull (in absentia). Part 5, a U.S. prosecutor sums up the case against Japanese Gen. Yamashita in the war crime trials in Manila.

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