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May/June 1942 Newsreel: 1st War Bond Drive; Willow Run & Chrysler Tank Plants; Belmont Stakes; Maritime Day; Troops & Army Nurses Arrive In Australia; Japanese POW; AA Guns
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United Newsreel (U.S. Office of War Information) news from late May & early June 1942: New York Hails War Heroes of United Nations U.S. Motorcycle Dispatch Riders Pass Road Test U.S. Arms Plants Speed Production [June 6, 1942 visit by Sir Oliver Lyttelton to Willow Run & June 2 1942 " Lend-lease Pact For China Signed By Soong, Hul l"] Shipbuilding Program Hits All-Time High [Maritime Day & launch of ships including SS Irving S. Olds: May 22, 1942 ] Turf Champions Race for Army-Navy Relief Fund [Belmont Stakes June 6 1942] Inter-American Military Experts See U.S. Air Power War News From Australia! National Archives description "Part 1, allied troops receive a ticker-tape parade. Part 2, army motorcycle dispatch riders take their final cross-country test. Part 3, Henry Ford and Donald Nelson inspect bomber and tank plants. Part 4, victory ships are constructed and launched. Mayor La Guardia presents awards to wounded merchant seamen. Part 5, Gen. Hugh Drum and Adm. Andrews attend an Army-Navy benefit horse race at Belmont Park. Part 6, South American military experts view U.S. land and air forces. Part 7, U.S. soldiers and nurses arrive at Australia. Planes and antiaircraft guns batt…
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Newsreel, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Army, Nelson, Donald Marr, United States. -- Army -- Signal Corps, Chandos, Oliver Lyttelton, Viscount, 1893-1972, Willow Run Industrial Complex, B-24 Bomber, Willow Run (Mich.), Ford, Henry, 1863-1947, M3 Lee Tank, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, World War, 1939-1945 -- Tank Warfare, War Bonds, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, American, Parades, Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955, Lend-lease Operations (1941-1945), Soong, T. V. (Tzu-wen), 1894-1971, Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993, La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947, Merchant Mariners -- United States, Maritime Day, Rites And Ceremonies, SS Irving S. Olds, Drum, Hugh Aloysius, 1879-1951, Belmont Stakes, Andrews, Adolphus, 1879-1948, United States. Army Air Forces, World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia, Army Nurse Corps, World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners And Prisons, American, World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States, United States. -- Army Nurse Corps, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States, Koala
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