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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine, Army Edition No. 2, 1943
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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine Number 02, 1943. (AKA "The War No. 2) 01 Symphony Of The Sands : soldiers at a Shostakovich 7th Symphony concert. With Ivy Lowe, Edward G. Robinson and Leopold Stokowski 02 Merchant Marine - U Boats! : Footage of the Battle of the Atlantic 03 Seized By The Japs : Captured Japanese film from the Sino-Japanese War. 04 How Much Can You Take : Testing military equipment under extreme conditions at Ft. Knox. 05 US Navy I Was There [USS Hornet] - sailor talks about the combat aboard the USS Hornet (CV-12) aircraft carrier. 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 short documentary films, news from back home, and short training films like Dr. Seuss' Pri…
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WWII, USS Hornet (CV-12), Leopold Stokowski, Shostakovich 7th Symphony, Edward G Robinson, Ivy Lowe, Symphony no. 7 "Leningrad", Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Atlantic Ocean, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, Merchant Marines
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