Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 18]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 18]

1946

Part 1, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Dorothy Lamour, J. Edgar Hoover, Justice Vinson, and Sam Rayburn watch the Preakness horse race at Pimlico Race Track. Part 2, a flock of sheep crosses the Columbia River on top of the Grand Coulee Dam. Part 3, the Ku Klux Klan holds a rally on Stone Mountain, Ga. Flashbacks show activities of the Klan in 1937. Part 4, shows Tojo, Shigemitsu, Okawa and other Japanese war criminals. Okawa slaps Tojo on top of the head during the war crimes trials in Tokyo. Part 5, shows Brit. Gen, Maitland-Wilson, Adm. DeWitt Ramsey, and Gen. Stilwell at White Sands, N.M., to observe the testing of captured Ger. V-2 rockets.

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Stilwell, Joseph Warren, 1883-1946

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Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. His caustic personality was reflected in the nickname "Vinegar Joe". He also had the nickname "Uncle Joe." Distrust of his Allies and a lack of resources meant Stilwell was continually forced to improvise. He famously differed as to strategy, ground troops versus air power, with his subordinate, Claire Chennault, who had the ear of Gen...

Vinson, Fred M. (Frederick Moore), 1890-1953

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Hoover, J.Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

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Director of the FBI. From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Arthur William Brown, 1941 Sept. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555861 John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served from 1924 to 1972 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As its first director, Hoover molded the FBI into his image of a modern police force. He promoted scientific investigation of crime, the collection and analysis of fingerprints and the hiring and ...

Ramsey, DeWitt C. (DeWitt Clinton), 1888-1961

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Admiral, U.S. Navy. From the description of Papers, 1912-1957. (Navy Department Library, Naval History & Heritage Command). WorldCat record id: 56795087 ...

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Wilson, Henry Maitland Wilson, Baron, b. 1881

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Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson (b. Sept. 5, 1881, London, England-d. Dec. 31, 1964, Buckinghamshire, England), Field Marshal in the British Army, was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in March 1900. He served in South Africa in the Second Boer War and with the 41st Division, the XIX Corps, and the New Zealand Division during World War I. Beginning in 1939, he was appointed General Officer Commanding British Troops in Egypt, led an expeditionary force to help Greece resist Italy and th...

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