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1943 Newsreel: Two New Cruisers Join US Navy Etc 1943
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Listed at the National Archives as Two New Cruisers Join US Navy Etc 1943. Title cards: Two New Cruisers Join The U.S. Navy Canada Rushes Huge Power Plant For War Work U.S. Red Cross Ships Boxes To War Prisoners Hollywood Stars Win Awards For Year's Best Films Burned Forests Yield 13 Billion Feet Of Timber R.A.A.F. Learn To Fight Like Commandos Italian Children In Ethiopia Sent Home By British First Lady Of China Visits U.S. Alma Mater Allied Offensive Smashes Japs On New Guinea Front National Archives description: "Part 1, the Biloxi and the Astoria are launched. Part 2, shows work on a dam and power plant on Canada's Saguenay River. Part 3, Red Cross boxes for U.S. prisoners of war are packed and shipped. Part 4, Academy Awards are presented to James Cagney and Greer Garson by Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine in Hollywood. Part 5, burned fir trees are felled and transported. Part 6, Royal Air Force (RAF) ground crews take commando training. Part 7, Italian women and children board ships in East Africa for return to Italy. Part 8, Madame Chiang Kai-shek visits Wellesley College. Part 9, allied troops advance in New Guinea. Surgeons sterilize equipment and treat soldiers." National Ar…
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United States. Office of Emergency Management
Subjects
Newsreel, WWII, World War II, Greer Garson, USS Biloxi (CL-80), Gary Cooper, Academy Awards, James Cagney, USS Biloxi, USS Astoria (CL-90), USS Astoria, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- New Guinea, World War, 1939-1945, Joan Fontaine, American Red Cross, World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners And Prisons, Lumber, World War, 1939-1945 -- Commando Operations, World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada, War -- Relief Of Sick And Wounded, Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003
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