RADIO PROXIMITY FUSE-WEAPON BEHIND VICTORY [ETC.]

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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39087, LI 208-UN-179 - RADIO PROXIMITY FUSE-WEAPON BEHIND VICTORY [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1 diagrams the use of radio proximity fuses on aerial bombs and rockets. Includes shots of Dr. Vannevar Bush. Part 2 shows Navy Day celebrations in New York City: a Navy fleet in the Hudson River, the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt being launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a parade, and President Truman aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in New York harbor. Other personages: Sec. of the Navy Forrestal; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.

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