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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 05
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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine Number 05, 1943. (AKA "The War No. 5) 01 Finishing School : Amphibious training at Camp Gordon Johnston, Florida. 02 Back Home - Cos Cob, Conn. : A Connecticut family runs a mom and pop machine shop for the war effort. 03 I Was There [Corregidor] Captain Ruth E. Parsons [Ruth Parsons Schabacker, model for the Nurse's Memorial statue at Arlington National Cemetery] and Lt. Juanita Redmond of the Army Nurse Corps talk about Redmond's experiences on Corregidor. 04 Happy Birthday! : Birthday of the WAC. 05 Private Snafu - Gripes : Pvt. Snafu becomes commander of an Army camp and allows everyone to goldbrick. The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 05 1943: the entire newsreel. The Army-Navy Screen Magazine was produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pictorial Service, under the supervision of Col. Frank Capra, who came up with the idea. It was released twice a month and shown to military troops as a 20-minute newsreel. " By the end of the war, the Army-Navy Screen Magazine reached an enormous weekly audience of 4.2 million. It had become for American soldiers all over the world a communal experience that greatly influenced their perception of the war. " It featured s…
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United States. Army Signal Corps’ Army Pictorial Service
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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine, United States. -- Army Nurse Corps, Angels of Corregidor, World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American, World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines -- Bataan (Province), World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- United States, Corregidor, Army Nurse Corps, Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959, United States. -- Army -- Women's Army Corps, Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950, World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States, Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995, Forrestal, James, 1892-1949, World War II: Women, World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons, United States. Army, World War, 1939-1945, US Army, World War II: Homefront, Camp Gordon Johnston (Fla.), World War II, World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious Operations, WWII
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