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United News, Release 87, 1944.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
United Newsreel Corporation.
Series:
Academic Video Online
United News ; 87
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
1940s.
War and Violence.
Depression & World War II (1929-1945).
War.
Italy.
Local Subjects:
1940s.
War and Violence.
Depression & World War II (1929-1945).
War.
Italy.
Genre:
Newsreel
Physical Description:
1 online resource (11 minutes)
Place of Publication:
Los Angeles, CA : United Newsreel Corporation, 1944.
Language Note:
In English.
Original language in English.
System Details:
data file
Summary:
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The Mars and its crew en route to Hawaii from California. 2. Test-firing of a 240mm howitzer. 3. Women manufacture gun cotton. 4. Canadian motorcycle dispatch riders take their final cross-country riding tests. 5. SPARS go ice-boating near Boston. 6. A thousand families near Naples leave the caves where they had lived for safety from bombs and receive food from the U.S. Army; ship-to-shore oil pipelines are laid; Allied troops attack Ortona, Italy.
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016).
OCLC:
859525062

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