Combat Bulletin #64 President Arrives For Conference Etc

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U.S. Army newsreel Combat Bulletin #64 Title Cards: ETO: President Arrives For Conference North America: Demonstration of Latest Signal Corps Equipment China: Recapture of Liuchow Pacific: Aguni Invasion Pacific: Balikpapan Invasion Pacific: Typhoon Hits Fleet Description from the National Archives: "Part 1, Truman, Eden, Stimson, Byrnes, Leahy, and Marshall arrive in Berlin for the Potsdam Conference. Part 2 demonstrates new Signal Corps equipment at A.P. Hill Military Reservation, Virginia, including a weather balloon, sound locator, switchboards, and wire. 1st Army officers, including Gen. C.H. Hodges, are addressed by Gen. G.L. van Deusen. Part 3 (SFR Reel 2), Chinese troops reoccupy Liuchow and hold a flag-raising ceremony (June 13). Shows damage caused by retreating Japanese. Part 4 (CB reel 2), the 8th Regiment gathers and comforts frightened civilians on Aguni Island in the Ryukyus. Part 5 (CB part 6), a typhoon in the Pacific lashes the 3rd Fleet. Seaplanes are wrecked on the battleship Massachusetts and the cruiser Pittsburgh. Shows damages and repairs on the carrier Hornet. The bow of the carrier Bennington is damaged. The Pittsburgh loses 100 feet of bow, but steams to…

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United States. War Department

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Combat Bulletin, Newsreel, SCR-658, GR-6, OR-6, SB-22/PT, WD-1/TT, United States. -- Army -- Signal Corps, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American, Typhoons -- History -- 20th century, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American, United States. -- Navy -- Fleet, 7th -- History, United States. -- Navy -- Fleet, 3rd -- History, World War, 1939-1945, MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964, VanDeusen, George Lane, 1888-1977, Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972, Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950, Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959, Potsdam Conference, 1945, USS Bennington (CV-20), Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959, Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977, Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Ryukyu Islands, United States. -- Army Air Forces -- Air Force, 13th; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island, USS Hornet (CV-8), World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Borneo, USS Bennington, USS Hornet

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