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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 21
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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine Number 21, 1944 01 Youth Power : High school students at James A. Garfield High School in Los Angeles work at the Lockheed and Douglas aircraft plants under a special program for the war effort. 02 Private Snafu - Snafuperman : Snafu doesn't have to study, because he is going to crush the Axis all by himself. 03 I Was There - Tarawa : Sgt. Norman Hatch, Marine Combat Cameraman, shares footage from Tarawa. (A lot of his footage is included the Academy Award-winning With the Marines At Tarawa http://archive.org/details/WiththeMarinesatTarawa ) The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 21 : 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 short documentary films, news from back home, and short training films…
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United States. Army Signal Corps’ Army Pictorial Service
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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, World War II: Homefront, Douglas Aircraft Company, World War, 1939-1945, Chaplain Francis "Foxhole" Kelly, World War II, Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943, United States. Army, Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943, US Army, World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American, United States. Marine Corps, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- United States, World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons, WWII, United States. -- Marine Corps -- History -- World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography, Hatch, Norm, 1921-
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