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December 1945 Newsreel: UNRAA, Housing Shortage, Yamashita Sentenced To Death, Etc
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United Newsreel (U.S. Office of War Information) news December 1945: Canada Collects Clothes for World's Needy Eastern U.S. Digs Out After Heavy Snows U.S. Army Tanks Destroy Japanese War Planes New Aluminum Houses to Ease World Shortage Thousand Pound 3-Wheeled Auto is Demonstrated General Yamashita Sentenced to Death by Hanging [December 7, 1945] National Archives description: "Part 1, UNRRA workers sort and bundle clothing in Canada. Part 2 shows snowy scenes at Buffalo, New York, and Niagara Falls. Part 3, Japanese planes are destroyed by flamethrowing tanks at a naval base in Japan. Part 4, aluminum is rolled, shaped, and made into prefabricated houses in Canada. Part 5, a 3-wheel auto is demonstrated in California. Part 6, Gen. Yamashita takes the stand at a war crime trial in Manila. He is questioned and replies through an interpreter. The prosecuting attorney sums up his case and Gen. Reynolds pronounces the death sentence (Dec. 6)." National Archives Identifier: 39095 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or…
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United News
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Newsreel, Yamashita, Tomobumi, 1885-1946, World War II: Postwar Issues, World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada, World War II, Tokyo Trials, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Army, Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948, Reynolds, Russel B. (Russel Burton), 1894-
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